/react-native-media-kit

Video(and audio) component for react-native apps, supporting both iOS and Android. A unified and elegant player controller is provided by default. The API is similar with HTML video.

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react-native-media-kit

Video(and audio) component for react-native apps, supporting both iOS and Android, with API similar to HTML video.

A default set of controls is provided to play/pause, seek and to display current playback and buffer progress.

Runs on react-native 0.28+. Supported media types:

  • iOS: Should be same as those supported by AVPlayer

  • Android: Shold be same as those supported by ExoPlayer

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Install

npm install --save react-native-media-kit@latest

iOS

For now, just drag react-native-media-kit.xcodeproj into your Xcode project and link the libreact-native-media-kit.a library.

Android

android/settings.gradle

include ':react-native-media-kit'
project(':react-native-media-kit').projectDir = new File('../node_modules/react-native-media-kit/android')

android/app/build.gradle

dependencies {
    ...
    compile project(':react-native-media-kit')
}

MainActivity.java

import com.yoai.reactnative.media.MediaKitPackage;
...
protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
    return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
        new MainReactPackage(),
            new MediaKitPackage()
    );
}

Documentation

Quite same as the the HTML 

import {Video} from 'react-native-media-kit';
...
<Video
  style={{width: width, height: width / (16/9)}}
  src={'http://v.yoai.com/femme_tampon_tutorial.mp4'}
  autoplay={false}
  preload={'none'}
  loop={false}
  controls={true}
  muted={false}
  poster={'http://static.yoaicdn.com/shoppc/images/cover_img_e1e9e6b.jpg'}
/>

API

The API is designed to mimics html <video />. For now, the Video and Audio component are identical.

Properties
key value iOS Android
src the URL of the video OK OK
autoplay true to automatically begins to play. Default is false. OK OK
preload can be 'none', 'auto'. Default is 'none'. OK OK
loop true to automatically seek back to the start upon reaching the end of the video. Default is 'false'. OK OK
controls true to show controls to allow user to control video playback, including seeking, and pause/resume playback. Default is true. OK OK
poster an image URL indicating a poster frame to show until the user plays. OK OK
muted true to silence the audio. Default is false. OK OK
onPlayerPaused OK OK
onPlayerPlaying OK OK
onPlayerFinished OK OK
onPlayerBuffering OK OK
onPlayerBufferOK OK OK
onPlayerProgress OK OK
onPlayerBufferChange Working on it to support Android OK N.A

You can use the onPlayerXXX callbacks to implement your custom controls.

Methods
  • pause
  • play
  • stop
  • seekTo

TODO

  • toggle between normal size and fullscreen