How to play YouTube video in my iPhone app?

The solution is very simple.

UIWebView allows developers to show a web page using a simple API - loadHTMLString:baseURL:. Using it, we can also have the video embedded in our apps.

Here are steps to have the YouTube in your app.

1. Go to YouTube and find a video you want to show in your app.
2. In YouTube, there is a "Embedded" button under the video. Click on it to copy the embedded code.
3. Go back to Xcode. Add the following lines to your app.
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   NSString* embeddedCode = @"your embedded HTML data from YouTube" UIWebView* videoView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480)]; [videoView loadHTMLString:embeddedCode baseURL:nil]; [self.window addSubview:videoView];

4. Compile and run your app.
5. Please note: You need to run it on a real device. Simulator does not support the YouTube framework, so you won't be able to see any video showing up in your app. It will just blank in the view.