Play Video via Native Video Player (Swift vs Xamarin)

Swift_VideoPlayerViewController.swift

// This code snippet was taken from a very simple iPad App, that plays an embedded video file 
// via the native IOS video player. The App was set up with a single 'View'. 
// The code below is from the 'ViewController', which contains the only significant code
// to be added to the standard template.
// The full project was created in Xcode, using the Apple Swift language

import UIKit
import MediaPlayer

class Swift_VideoPlayerViewController: UIViewController {

    var moviePlayer : MPMoviePlayerController?
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
        
        playVideo()
    }
    
    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }
    
    func playVideo()
    {
        let path = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("video", ofType: "mp4")
        let url = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(path!)
        
        moviePlayer = MPMoviePlayerController(contentURL: url)
        if let player = moviePlayer{
            
            player.view.frame = self.view.bounds
            player.prepareToPlay()
            player.scalingMode = .AspectFit
            self.view.addSubview(player.view)
        }
    }
}

Xamarin_VideoPlayerViewController.cs

// This code snippet was taken from a very simple iPad App, that plays an embedded video file 
// via the native IOS video player. The App was set up with a single 'View'. 
// The code below is from the 'ViewController', which contains the only significant code
// to be added to the standard template.
// The full project was created in Xamarin Studio, using the C# language

using System;
using System.Drawing;

using MonoTouch.Foundation;
using MonoTouch.UIKit;
using MonoTouch.MediaPlayer;

namespace Xamarin_VideoPlayer
{
	public partial class Xamarin_VideoPlayerViewController : UIViewController
	{
		MPMoviePlayerController moviePlayer;

		public Xamarin_VideoPlayerViewController (IntPtr handle) : base (handle)
		{
		}

		public override void DidReceiveMemoryWarning ()
		{
			// Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
			base.DidReceiveMemoryWarning ();
		}

		#region View lifecycle

		public override void ViewDidLoad ()
		{
			base.ViewDidLoad ();
			
			// Perform any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
			// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
			moviePlayer = new MPMoviePlayerController (NSUrl.FromFilename ("video.mp4"));
			
			RectangleF screenSize = UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds;
			//Console.WriteLine("screenSize - Width: " + screenSize.Width + ", Height: " + screenSize.Height );
			//since we in landscape, the longest dimension needs to be applied to the width of this 'view'
			moviePlayer.View.Frame = (screenSize.Width > screenSize.Height) ?
				new RectangleF (0, 0, screenSize.Width, screenSize.Height) : new RectangleF (0, 0, screenSize.Height, screenSize.Width);

			moviePlayer.RepeatMode = MPMovieRepeatMode.One;
			moviePlayer.SetFullscreen (true, false);
			moviePlayer.PrepareToPlay();
			moviePlayer.ScalingMode = MPMovieScalingMode.AspectFit;
	
			View.AddSubview (moviePlayer.View);
		}

		#endregion
	}
}