react-native-bitmovin-player

Attention! This plugin is not official, the code is not provided or maintained by Bitmovin!

Getting started

Disable auto link, create react-native.config.js archive in root folder.

module.exports = {
  dependencies: {
    'react-native-bitmovin-player': {
      platforms: {
        android: null,
        ios: null,
      },
    },
  },
};

Install react-native-bitmovin-player fork.

  $ yarn add https://github.com/fhugoduarte/react-native-bitmovin-player.git

Manual installation

iOS

In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-bitmovin-player and add RNBitmovinPlayer.xcodeproj
In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNBitmovinPlayer.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
Run your project (Cmd+R)

Android

Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java

Add import com.xxsnakerxx.RNBitmovinPlayer.RNBitmovinPlayerPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
Add new RNBitmovinPlayerPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

include ':react-native-bitmovin-player'
project(':react-native-bitmovin-player').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-bitmovin-player/android')

Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:
```
implementation project(':react-native-bitmovin-player')
```

Add BitmovinPlayer iOS SDK

Add line to your Podfile

pod 'BitmovinPlayer', git: 'https://github.com/bitmovin/bitmovin-player-ios-sdk-cocoapod.git', tag: '2.36.0'.

After that, install the pod using pod install.

Add BitmovinPlayer Android SDK

Add a link to our release repository to your application's build.gradle file. In addition to that, the google maven repository must be added.

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        google()
        maven {
            url 'http://bitmovin.bintray.com/maven'
        }
    }
}

Setup Project

Add the Bundle identifier of the iOS application which is using the SDK as an allowed domain to the Bitmovin licensing backend. This can also be done under Player -> Licenses when logging in into https://dashboard.bitmovin.com with your account.

When you do not do this, you'll get a license error when starting the application which contains the player.

iOS

Add your Bitmovin player license key to the Info.plist file as BitmovinPlayerLicenseKey.

Android

Add your Bitmovin player license key to the AndroidManifest.xml.

<meta-data android:name="BITMOVIN_PLAYER_LICENSE_KEY" android:value="YOUR_KEY_HERE" />

Your player license key can be found when logging in into https://dashboard.bitmovin.com and navigating to Player -> Licenses.

Add permissions to the AndroidManifest.xml.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DOWNLOAD_WITHOUT_NOTIFICATION" />

Enable allowBackup to the AndroidManifest.xml.

<application
      ...
      android:allowBackup="true">

Usage

import BitmovinPlayer from 'react-native-bitmovin-player';

// please follow to index.js for available props
<BitmovinPlayer
  configuration={{
    source: {
      title: 'It works',
      url: 'https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8',
    },
  }}
/>