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How to play YouTube content on tvOS

May 25, 2023 by Tarik

UIWebView and MPMoviePlayerController are not available for tvOS. Our next option is to use AVPlayer to play YouTube videos. AVPlayer cannot play a YouTube video from a standard YouTube URL, ie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE. It needs a direct URL to the video file. Using HCYoutubeParser we can accomplish exactly that. Once we have the URL we need, … Read more

Web app in tvOS

April 26, 2023 by Tarik

EDIT: Before people keeps downvoting, I’m going to make clear that the UIWebView is present on the apple TV, but it’s PROHIBITED to use it, so, the only real way of loading web apps on an apple TV is creating them with TVML and TVJS If you want to use an UIWebView (as proof of … Read more