YoutubeVideoPlayer of ionic-native is out of date. Suggest using a forked version

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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The youtube player plugin does not work on new videos. It looks like the repo has not been updated in over a year and a half but there are forks which have been updated. It’d be nice if ionic-native worked with this repo instead

Thanks

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You could send a PR yourself to make it easier for the team to change this:
https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-native/blob/master/src/plugins/youtube-video-player.ts

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There is an issue for this: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-native/issues/1352

Is there any workaround?

The current version doesn’t work with android >6

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You should be able to just install the other plugin and use the native library as always.

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I tryed that, didn’t work!

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What exactly didn’t work?
Or first: What exactly did you try?

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If I’m not mistaken, you won’t be able to import the library through ionic native. Instead you’ll have to declare the plugin variable with something like
’declare const YoutubeVideoPlayer:any;’