Building Video Streaming iOS App

Introduction

I was looking for a way to add a video player to my iOS app that could be able to play remote videos.

Caveats

Problem

I found that you can’t open Vimeo or Youtube videos because of AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11850 "Operation Stopped" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=The server is not correctly configured Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-12939 error. I don’t know exactly what this means, but I’m speculating it’s related to some protection.

Solution

My solution was to find another video that is not related to those platforms.

Implementation

AVKit has a built-in video player called VideoPlayer. All you need to play a video is to pass AVPlayer with videoURL.

@ViewBuilder
var fullScreenVideoPlayer: some View {
    let avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: videoURL)
    VideoPlayer(player: avPlayer)
        .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
        .onAppear {
            avPlayer.play()
        }
}

I will dive a little deeper with widgets in the next chapters.

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Introduction

Caveats

Problem

Solution

Implementation

Thank you for reading! 😊