Exoplayer Integration Android



Before the Exoplayer, Native Mediaplayer was the only solution for playing video and audio on an android device locally or over the internet. In the beginning, playing a simple video using Native MediaPlayer was easy but if you wanted to develop a player like Youtube it would be very hard using MediaPlayer and it would take a lot of time and also you need to put in a lot of effort and you can face a lot of challenges as well.

ExoPlayer is the video player currently used in the Android YouTube app. It’s not a part of android native it’s a library that was developed by Google and maintained by Google. Using the ExoPlayer we can manage all audio and video-related stuff on our behalf and we can use a few methods and classes for developing such a good player. We can customize the player UI as well using Exoplayer.

ExoPlayer was built and developed using Android MediaCodec API, which was released in Android 4.1 (API level 16 - Jelly bean). So, if we want to use Exoplayer in our app we need to set minimum API version 16 for our apps.

Why use ExoPlayer?

  • We can stream DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP), HLS(HTTP Live Streaming), SmoothStreaming. and also perform Common Encryption, using Exoplayer which is not supported by MediaPlayer.
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  • We can easily modify and customize our player design.
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  • Exoplayer has vast features and more flexibility so most of the apps use the exo-player for streaming video.
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  • Good Explanation in documentation and tutorials.
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  • It’s an open-source project so it’s totally free for all!

Basic Android ExoPlayer App


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