How do I open a YouTube URL (from my tvOS Application) to the YouTube tvOS Application?
My url fits the youtube url scheme indicated by apple. The prints I get when I run this (on the actual apple tv device) is as follows:
So for some reason it's telling me that I'm able to open the url, but then when I attempt to open it. Nothing happens (except for that last print ( see 3. above ))
let url = URL(string: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smOp5aK-_h0")
if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(url){
print("Can open shared application url.")
if #available(tvOS 10.0, *) {
print("tvOS 10.0 detected")
UIApplication.shared.open(url){res in
print("Result..." + String(res))
}
} else {
// Fallback on earlier versions
UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
}
}
Youtube URL Scheme:
Native app URL strings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_IDENTIFIER http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_IDENTIFIER
While the methods do exist to open a URL in a shared application, it does not seem to be supported (by YouTube?) as of right now.
The best I was able to do was to open YouTube Apple Tv App, but it is unable to play the video I wanted.