Playing Video with .NET MAUI | Community Feed

.NET MAUI has no built-in video control, so David Britch created a cross-platform Video view backed by native players. It plays remote, embedded, and user-selected video with built-in or custom transport controls.

What you’ll learn

Native players per platform — AVPlayer on iOS/Mac Catalyst and VideoView on Android (with Windows to follow)
Handler architecture — mapping a virtual Video view to native views via property and command mappers
What command mappers are for — passing arguments to invoke native functionality, decoupled from the cross-platform view
Solution structure — Controls, Handlers, and Platforms folders, plus an Android content provider for embedded assets
Lifecycle cleanup — calling DisconnectHandler yourself at the right point

Read the full post for the structure walkthrough and a link to the repo.