Playing a Video in a UICollectionViewCell

Right in the cell!

I thought I’d make a project.

Can I play a video in a UICollectionViewCell? You know what? I can!

This is an article about how to do just that — but if you want a YouTube video I’ve got that for you too:

Before we start

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging
This article has been developed using Xcode 12.5, and Swift 5.4

Prerequisites:

• You’ll need to either be able to write an iOS application or write some Swift code in Playgrounds
• This article is self-contained, but you would benefit from having some experience producing a UICollectionView & UICollectionViewCell programmatically, as described in another article

Terminology

UICollectionView: An object that manages an ordered collection of data items and presents them using customizable layouts

UICollectionViewCell: The on-screen cell for the UICollectionView type

This Article

Wouldn’t it be great if you could play video in a UICollectionViewCell, you know, like Instagram does it (and I have written an article about)