I'm developing a tutorial style tvOS app with multiple videos. The examples I've seen so far deal with only one video.
Defining the player and source(url) before body view
let avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: URL(string: "https://domain.com/.../.../video.mp4")!))
and then in the body view the video is displayed
VideoPlayer(player: avPlayer)
This allows options such as stop/start etc.
When I try something similar with a video title passed into this view I can't define the player with this title variable.
var vTitle: String
var avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: URL(string: "https://domain.com/.../.../" + vTitle + ".mp4"")!))
var body: some View {
I het an error that vTitle can't be used in the url above the body view.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks
Hello @Boomer,
In the code snippet you shared, vTitle and avPlayer are both instance members of the same type (whatever your View type is here). You can't use an instance member in a property initializer.
You could do something like this:
struct MyView: View {
let vTitle: String
let avPlayer: AVPlayer
init(vTitle: String) {
self.vTitle = vTitle
self.avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: URL(string: "https://domain.com/.../.../" + vTitle + ".mp4")!)
}
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text(vTitle)
VideoPlayer(player: avPlayer)
}
}
}
I say could, because it's not clear to me if that code has the exact behavior you want (because I don't know what the exact behavior you want in your app is), but it does compile and may give you some ideas on how to implement the behavior you do want :)
-- Greg
