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We have YouTube trailers that we want to run on our Xamarin Forms (PCL) project.

We have try'd everything but somehow there is not a good Youtube player out there :(

So now we are loading the Youtube trailers in a WebView so that it runs on the Android + iOS.

This is how we load the trailers in our WebView component:

var apiRequest = "https://www.youtube.com/embed/GYmm9qNwd_s?html5=1&autoplay=1&loop=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&controls=1";

var webView = new WebView();
webView.Source = apiRequest;
webView.MinimumWidthRequest = 200;
webView.MinimumHeightRequest = 200;
webView.HorizontalOptions = LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand;
webView.VerticalOptions = LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand;

var stackLayout = new StackLayout();

stackLayout.Children.Add(webView);

stackLayout.HorizontalOptions = LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand;
stackLayout.VerticalOptions = LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand;

grid.Children.Add(stackLayout);

this.Content = grid;

But somehow the Trailer is running on iOS and Android but the Autoplay is not working and the related movies still show up!

Screenshot1-ShowingControls

Screenshot2-RelMoviesStillShow

So my question is :

  1. Is there a way to set the Autoplay on the Xamarin Forms platforms?
  2. Why does the autoplay function won't work?
Faith
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Autoplay on most mobile platforms (Android, iOS) gets blocked to avoid poor user experiences - video should only play following a user action. Like in Andriod, Auto-play is disabled since Android SDK 17. You can check this question to get more information Android webview html5 video autoplay not working on android 4.0.3

Adrain
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