Description

This tutorial will show how to play a YouTube video directly from an app without opening the browser.

For this tutorial you will first need to include a MyToolkit reference in your project.

You can add the reference using Nuget Package manager. Search for Mytoolkit in the Nuget Package manager.

For a reference on how to use Nuget Package Manager:

Process of Installing the Nuget Package Manager in ASP.NET Web API

Step 1

First we will create the basic page with a button and Button_Click_1 event handler for the button click as in the following:

Code

<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">

<Button Height="100" Width="200" Content="Play!" Click="Button_Click_1" />

</Grid>

Step 2

In the C# code include the namespace "MyToolkit.Multimedia".

Code

using MyToolkit.Multimedia;

Step 3

Use the Play method in the YouTube class to play a video as in the following:

private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

YouTube.Play("uELoogRgvo4", true, YouTubeQuality.Quality480P, (ex) =>

{

if (ex != null)

{

SystemTray.ProgressIndicator.IsVisible = false;

MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);

}

});

}

The first parameter method is the YouTube video ID that should be passed as the string.

For example, for this YouTube video the underlined part shows the video ID.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uELoogRgvo4

The second parameter is "manualActivatePage" and should be set to true for best performance.

The third parameter is the video quality and the fourth parameter is an action.

Step 4

Override the "OnBackKeyPress" and qOnNavigatedTo methods in the page as in the following:

protected override void OnBackKeyPress(CancelEventArgs e)

{

if (YouTube.CancelPlay()) // used to abort current youtube download

e.Cancel = true;

base.OnBackKeyPress(e);

}

protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)

{

YouTube.CancelPlay();// enable page after video playback is completed

base.OnNavigatedTo(e);

}

Reference

MyToolkit