[FEATURE REQUEST] Manage Focus Between TextField and youtube_player_iframe

[nepoet26]

Hello everyone,
I’m currently using the youtube_player_iframe library to allow playing videos from YouTube. I’m facing an issue where, after a user interacts with a TextField and then tries to interact with the iframe, the focus doesn't switch to the iframe and remains on the TextField. I suspect this is due to cross-origin security policies with iframes. As a result, when the user interacts with the iframe and presses the spacebar to play/pause the video, it ends up being a space character in the TextField instead. To focus on the iframe, the user has to first click on an empty area to unfocus the TextField before they can interact with the iframe.

I’ve tried several solutions that I could think of:

Listening for events provided by youtube_player_iframe, like play, pause, video end -> This works for cases where the user interacts with the video state, but if the user interacts with the settings to change the video quality, for example, the settings immediately disappear because the TextField is still focused.

Checking if the TextField is focused but not from a user click, and then unfocusing the TextField -> This resolves the issue of user interaction with the iframe, but using focusNode causes the TextField to be non-interactive for text selection. The user needs to click the TextField before they can select text, which is a poor UX change (replacing one bad UX with another).

Creating an invisible overlay layer over the iframe to capture user interaction events -> Since Flutter web iframes have independent interaction mechanisms, even with an overlay, the user can still interact with the iframe first. I tried using dart:html to solve this, but it only works for web applications and doesn't build for mobile apps. So every time I update the code, I have to build separately for web and mobile. Additionally, the overlay layer forces users to click twice (once to trigger the overlay event and once to interact with the iframe).

Has anyone had experience with youtube_player_iframe and can share some guidance on how to handle this issue?