iPhone Blogs: Embedding youtube video in a webview

This post describes how you can embed you tube video in a webView which is in a table cell & on row selection autoplay youtube video

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{

UIWebView *wbView = (UIWebView *)[cell.contentView viewWithTag:1];

NSString *embedHTML = @"\

<html><head>\

body {\

background-color: transparent;\

color: white;\

</style>\

</head><body style=\"margin:0\">\

width=\"%0.0f\" height=\"%0.0f\"></embed>\

</body></html>";

NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:embedHTML,url, 64.0, 64.0];

[wbView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];

}

"url" is the youtube video url

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{

UITableViewCell *cell = [category_table cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];

UIWebView *wbView = (UIWebView *)[cell.contentView viewWithTag:1];

UIButton *btn = [self findButtonInView:wbView];

[btn sendActionsForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

}

// detecting the play button on the you tube video thumbnail

- (UIButton *)findButtonInView:(UIView *)view {

UIButton *button = nil;

if ([view isMemberOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {

return (UIButton *)view;

}

if (view.subviews && [view.subviews count] > 0) {

for (UIView *subview in view.subviews) {

button = [self findButtonInView:subview];

if (button) return button;

}

return button;

}

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)_webView {

UIButton *button = [self findButtonInView:_webView];

[button sendActionsForControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

}

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