does compose multiplatform has Videoplayer?

# compose-ios

[Abdullah]

does compose multiplatform has Videoplayer?

[Joel Denke]

No, but I think adding a KMP library for it maybe. You can do expect actual.
iOS, use AVPlayer with kotlin interop. Android use androidx exoplayer. Desktop use vlcj library. For wasm not sure yet 😁

[markturnip]

This MediaPlayerController.kt demonstrates Kotlin Interoperability with the iOS native AVPlayer.
It’s also possible to use existing iOS UIView within Compose tree using UIKitView as this blogpost demonstrates.

[Abdullah]

I think compose multiplatform should have videoplayer composeview natively without using expect/actual.

[markturnip]

I’m not sure it does, unless someone has made a module

[markturnip]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C01Q62JMKBP/p1690054808639579

[markturnip]

see last comment on thread

[Joel Denke]

@Abdullah I disagree, not compose multiplatforms job to provide video player imo. However I think community should strive more stop re-invent the wheel everytime and start doing open source libraries we can share. Maybe however I thikn CMP should provide a way of reference a video file, that can be used, like streams, uris, urls, local file etc.
There is no way for compose doing this natively, as not even OS:es itself has it. I mean like Android needs exoplayer library and desktop needs something like VLC 😄