Implementing UIView in SwiftUI - swift

Question

I am trying to implement a video player in SwiftUI via a UIView following this tutorial: https://medium.com/flawless-app-stories/avplayer-swiftui-b87af6d0553
Unfortunately the video is not displaying, I have AVFoundation imported so I am not sure of the issue. Has anyone found a solution to this?
Here are the classes I created:
class PlayerUIView: UIView {
private let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer()
init(frame: CGRect, urlString: String) {
super.init(frame: frame)
guard let url = URL(string: urlString) else {
return
}
let player = AVPlayer(url: url)
player.play()
playerLayer.player = player
layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
}
required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
super.init(coder: coder)
}
override func layoutSubviews() {
super.layoutSubviews()
playerLayer.frame = bounds
}
}
struct VideoPlayerUIView: UIViewRepresentable {
var frame: CGRect
var urlString: String
func makeUIView(context: Context) -> some UIView {
return PlayerUIView(frame: self.frame, urlString: self.urlString)
}
func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIViewType, context: Context) {
}
}
Here I how I am using the implementation in SwiftUI:
var body: some View {
Text("Videos")
VideoPlayerUIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 300), urlString: urlString)
}
This was the output (no video)
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Answer 1

You did everything right here.
The only thing that is causing error is how you are process the URL.
Try initialising the player like this instead
let player = AVPlayer(url: Bundle.main.url(forResource: urlString, withExtension: "mp4")!)
Change the extension according to the format you are using. Remember, here I am force wrapping the optional. So, if you give a wrong urlString or have a video extension other than mp4, the app will crash