Question

How do I get this play arrow in a button? This arrow should look like if you have an website with an embed YouTube video.

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Answer 1

If you’re going to be playing YouTube content directly from the app there is some information on how to place a UIWebView to display the content from YouTube. Check out Method #2 which demonstrates the creation of this thumbnail.

YouTube API Information

For other video sources, you could set the background color of the button to be a still frame of the video using

button.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage: [UIImage imageNamed: @"videoStill.png"]];

Then set the button’s image property to a play button with transparency.

[button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"playButton.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];