View controls are not shown on Android

More often than not, the youtube view on Android, loads with only the starting image (cover) of the video, but without any video player controls. Nor the play button, nor the fullscreen mode button, nothing.

As far as I’ve seen throughout the other issues, this type of behaviour is not reported so-far. Is there something I am missing, or not using the component as intended?

I am using the component in the following manner:

  render() {
    return (
      <YouTube
        videoId={SOME_VIDEO_ID} // The YouTube video ID
        play={false}                                               // control playback of video with true/false
        hidden={false}                                             // control visibility of the entire view
        playsInline={true}                                         // control whether the video should play inline
        loop={false}                                               // control whether the video should loop when ended

        //onReady={(e)=> console.log("onReady", e)}
        //onChangeState={(e)=> console.log("onChangeState", e)}
        //onChangeQuality={(e)=> console.log("onChangeQuality", e)}
        //onError={(e)=> console.log("onError", e)}
        //onProgress={(e)=> console.log("onProgress", e)}

        ref={component => this._root = component}
        style={{alignSelf: 'stretch', height: 250, backgroundColor: 'black'}}
        apiKey={YOUTUBE_API_KEY}
      />
    )
  }

[wack17s]

this hack works for me

export default class extends Component {
    state = {
        height: 215
    }

    handleReady = () => {
        setTimeout(() => this.setState({ height: 216 }), 200);
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <YouTube
                apiKey   = {config.YOUTUBE_API_KEY}
                ref      = {item => this.player = item}
                videoId  = {getVideoId(uri)}
                controls = {1}
                onReady  = {this.handleReady}
                style    = {{ alignSelf: 'stretch', height: height }}
            />
        );
    }
}

[koswarabilly]

use the hack above but set the timeout to 500, it works like charm for me.