React Native Youtube Streamer

A cross-platform Youtube video player with customizable controls.

This library provide a fully customisable Youtube video player that work both on Android and iOS. It also come with common use case documentation of things that you would like to implements.

By default there are two controls slots that are displayed respectively on different part of the parent container and you can use default components provided by this library:

• Middle. Contain by default a grid display two buttons:
  • One with play / pause alternating.
  • Another that will restart the video.
• Bottom. Contain the video current time, a progress bar and the total duration.
• Loader. There is also a loader that will trigger while video is charging (network issues, bootstraping, ...).
• VideoId. Contain the valid Youtube video Id.

Documentation

• Installation chapter
• Render a FullScreen Video player
• Implement your own controls bar

Quick documentation

This is simple as that.

VideoPlayer ship around any video component, but fits well with react-video. In v2 you've total control on the video component.

• autoStart - Whether or not the video should start when rendered (Default to true).
• mainControl - The component used to render the main control bar, you can use the default one provided by this lib or your own.
• bottomControl - The component used to render the bottom control bar, you can use the default one provided by this lib or your own.
• VideoId. Contain the valid Youtube video Id.

For advanced configuration, such as infinite loop, check the rest of the documentation and custom controls bar. youtubeCustomUrl - Youtube video URLs extracted from YouTube stream - Get all the details about YouTube videos

1import React, { Component } from "react";
2import { View } from "react-native";
3import Video from "react-native-video";
4import {
5  VideoPlayer,
6  DefaultMainControl,
7  DefaultBottomControlsBar,
8  videoId,
9} from "react_native_youtube_streamer";
10
11export default class App extends Component {
12  render() {
13    return (
14      <VideoPlayer
15        autoStart={false}
16        mainControl={(args) => <DefaultMainControl {...args} />}
17        bottomControl={(args) => <DefaultBottomControlsBar {...args} />}
18        videoId="tsPSBLX1GPg" //<-- youtube-video-id -->
19      >
20        {(args) =>
21          args.youtubeCustomUrl && (
22            <Video
23              ref={args.playerRef}
24              source={{
25                uri: args.youtubeCustomUrl,
26              }}
27              style={styles.backgroundVideo}
28              resizeMode="cover"
29              paused={args.videoPaused}
30              onLoad={args.onLoad}
31              onProgress={args.onProgress}
32              onEnd={args.onEnd}
33            />
34          )
35        }
36      </VideoPlayer>
37    );
38  }
39}
40var styles = StyleSheet.create({
41  backgroundVideo: {
42    position: "absolute",
43    top: 0,
44    left: 0,
45    bottom: 0,
46    right: 0,
47    backgroundColor: "black",
48  },
49});