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JWPlayer video playing in default iOS video player on Full screen mode in iOS app

I have integrated JWPlayer in my Android and iOS app. I have issue in playing video in JWPlayer in full screen mode. In non full screen mode in iOS, video plays perfectly in JWPlayer. But when video enters full screen mode in iOS upon user gesture(tapping on full screen control in JWPlayer) video player shifts from JWPlayer to default iOS video player. I want the video to be played only in JWPlayer in fullscreen mode in iOS and not on default iOS video player. Can anyone help on what am i missing? Awaiting reply...

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Daniel Berger

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hi,

Our iOS SDK will use our JW Player when in full screen. Here is a sample project that illustrates this behavior:
http://qa.jwplayer.com.s3.amazonaws.com/~daniel/JWPlayer-Swift-Fullscreen.zip

Let me know your thoughts.

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My app is an hybrid iOS app (HTML,CSS and JS) using self hosted JWPlayer package. It is not a native app. It plays in iOS default player in full screen mode. How to play the video in JWPlayer in full screen mode in my app? I do want to play it using default iOS default video player

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JWPlayer user

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Please ignore my previous reply because of typo in it. My app is an hybrid iOS app (HTML,CSS and JS) using self hosted JWPlayer package. It is not a native app. It plays in iOS default player in full screen mode. How to play the video in JWPlayer in full screen mode in my app? I do not want to play it using default iOS default video player

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Daniel Berger

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hi,

Thank you for clarifying. The expected behavior of our web player is that if you implement it in iOS and set the player to fullscreen, playback will then occur with Apple’s native player. The only supported workaround to this behavior is to use our iOS SDK.

Best,
Daniel

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JWPlayer user

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Thank you for the reply. Just wanted to confirm one thing. JWPlayer works fine in full screen mode in iOS web browsers(Chrome and Safari). Issue is only in iOS hybrid app. Only workaround to fix the full screen issue in iOS hybrid app is to use iOS SDK? Is there any other way of fixing the full screen issue in iOS hybrid app?

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Daniel Berger

JW Player Support Agent  
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Hi Jack,

You are correct. Currently, the only workaround is to use our SDK. Unfortunately, I don’t have any code examples to share with you because we don’t officially support hybrid apps.

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