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 t...