Android Library that aims to provide a simple, general purpose video player experience.

This library aims to ease the burden of creating video experiences. It's built off of the ExoPlayer provided by Google.

Unlike a pure ExoPlayer development environment, this library tries to handle much of the boiler plate code and setup. While this removes some of the configurability, the library allows for an easy, general use case out-of-the-box.

A demo project is included in this repo under the app directory. A more advanced demo will be provided in a separate repository in the future. The plan is to release the demos to the Google Play Store when they mature.

Add the Jitpack.io repository to your project build.gradle under allprojects:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()

        maven {
            url "https://jitpack.io"
        }
    }
}

And add the library to your module build.gradle:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.welshk91:Eirene:master-SNAPSHOT'
}

If you're using Activities, simply extend from the EireneActivity class provided. The end result will look like something below:

class DemoVideoActivity : EireneActivity() {
    val baseUrl = "https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8"
    override fun getUri(): Uri {
        return Uri.parse(baseUrl)
    }
}

If you're using Fragments, simply extend from the EireneFragment class provided. The end result will look like something below:

class DemoVideoFragment : EireneFragment() {
    val baseUrl = "https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8"
    override fun getUri(): Uri {
        return Uri.parse(baseUrl)
    }
}

For both methods, you will have to provide an implementation detailing what Uri to play.

While the EireneActivity and EireneFragment abstract classes both provide a good default template, you may want to add even more customizations to your video experience.

If you want to provide a different layout than the library's default, you can simply override the getRootView method

class DemoVideoFragment : EireneFragment() {

    //abstract method implementations here...
    
    override fun getRootView(inflater: LayoutInflater, @Nullable container: ViewGroup?): View {
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.my_player_view, container, false)
    }
}

Already have an awesome OkHttpClient configured with caching, interceptors, or retry logic (perhaps from RetroFit or OkHttp itself)? You can simply override the getOkHttpClient method to provide this for the player

class DemoVideoFragment : EireneFragment() {

    //abstract method implementations here...
    
    override fun getOkHttpClient(): OkHttpClient? {
        return NetworkManager.getHttpClient().build()
    }
}

• ChromeCast support (Highest priority feature)
• DRM support
• Customization for volume (layout, disable especially on phones that already manage media volume)
• Customization for Key Events (Android TV remote buttons, swipes, taps)
• Customization for the media control layout (play/pause, fast forward, closed captioning)
• And more in GitHub's Projects tab!

Copyright 2019 Kevin Welsh

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