I've been working on this Xamarin Forms mobile application and I've been loving it but it's a media player application and the native embedding for the platform specific video player doesn't work. After much debugging I was able to get the audio playing but no video would show up. I think this has to do with the views just not being swapped out appropriately. Unfortunately there isn't much material on how to effectively switch from a Xamarin Forms view to a native view (to see the video) through Xamarin Forms. Any help is appreciated thank you !
I was able to get iOS videos working by using the Xamarin Forms messaging service to Appdelegate class and built the AVPlayer class there. Works great.
playVideo.Clicked += (sender, e) =>
MessagingCenter.Send(this, "ShowVideoPlayer", new
ShowVideoPlayerArguments(videoUrl));
Appdelegate.cs
MessagingCenter.Subscribe<VideoDetailPage,
ShowVideoPlayerArguments>(this, "ShowVideoPlayer",
HandleShowVideoPlayerMessage);
//messaging center class
private void HandleShowVideoPlayerMessage(Page page,
ShowVideoPlayerArguments arguments)
{
var presentingViewController = GetMostPresentedViewController();
var url = NSUrl.FromString(arguments.Url);
var avp = new AVPlayer(url);
var avpvc = new AVPlayerViewController();
avpvc.Player = avp;
avp.Play();
presentingViewController.PresentViewController(avpvc, animated: true,
completionHandler: null);
}
private UIViewController GetMostPresentedViewController()
{
var viewController =
UIApplication.SharedApplication.KeyWindow.RootViewController;
while (viewController.PresentedViewController != null){
viewController = viewController.PresentedViewController;
}
return viewController;
}
However.. Getting this to work with Android is a whole different animal since I have to have deal with .axml layouts I believe.. Any help with this would be greatly appreciate.. Thanks so much guys.
