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Our team in London develop the open-source ExoPlayer library, which powers billions of video playbacks daily on Android…

Transforming media with ExoPlayer

ExoPlayer 2.13 includes a new Transformer library module for converting media streams. This post describes what this module does and how to use it.

API capabilities

Low-latency live streaming with ExoPlayer

Low-latency live streaming was identified as one of the biggest challenges for video…

ExoPlayer 2.13 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.13 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. As always, we recommend also taking a look at the full release notes.

Transformer API

The media2 extension for ExoPlayer

The AndroidX media2 session API is the new version of Android’s MediaSession API. By integrating your application’s media player with this API, you can allow playback to be controlled via Bluetooth media control keys, Google Assistant, Android Auto, and other…

A top-level playlist API for ExoPlayer

ExoPlayer 2.12 integrates playlist support into the player’s top-level API.

In ExoPlayer 2.0, MediaSource composition made it possible to play sequences of media items using…

Improved Japanese subtitle support

ExoPlayer 2.12 adds parsing and rendering support for vertical text…

ExoPlayer 2.12 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.12 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most…

Improving ExoPlayer rendering performance

We have recently pushed a new experimental feature to the ExoPlayer dev-v2 branch as…

ExoPlayer 2.11 - What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.11 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. As always, we recommend also taking a look at the full release notes.

Android 10

Playing AV1 videos with ExoPlayer

AV1 is a new video codec that aims to provide improved compression efficiency compared to VP9 and HEVC. Over the past year, we’ve seen considerable interest in supporting AV1 playback in ExoPlayer. As part of keeping pace with the latest developments in video coding…

ExoPlayer 2.10 — What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.10 contains many new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. Take a look at the full release notes for a more comprehensive list, and our new and improved developer site for more information about using…

Improved decoder reuse in ExoPlayer

By reusing decoder instances in more cases, ExoPlayer 2.10 can…

ExoPlayer 2.9 — What’s new

ExoPlayer 2.9 includes lots of new features, improvements and bug fixes. This post highlights some of the most significant changes. Please consult the full release notes for a comprehensive list.

Java 8

Load error handling in ExoPlayer

ExoPlayer version 2.9 provides error handling customization via LoadErrorHandlingPolicy. Historically, error handling has been one of the less flexible aspects of ExoPlayer. By using custom implementations of the LoadErrorHandlingPolicy interface, apps can now tweak load…

Playing 360 degree videos with ExoPlayer

With ExoPlayer 2.9 a new surface type is added to PlayerView: spherical_view. This new surface type allows users to view 360º videos without a VR headset. Only some part of the video in one direction is displayed at any time. To explore the video in all…

Simplified bandwidth meter usage

ExoPlayer 2.9.0 simplifies player setup for adaptive playback

Easy Audio Focus with ExoPlayer

Managing audio focus is a vital part of being a good citizen in the Android media ecosystem.

Downloading Adaptive Streams

There have been major changes since the writing of this post please see the new page on our developer site for the latest information on downloading.

This is a follow up post for Downloading Streams, covering the details related to downloading adaptive…

ExoPlayer at Google I/O

If you’re attending Google I/O this year then be sure to come along to our session on Thursday at 10:30am, where you’ll learn how to build feature-rich media apps with ExoPlayer. For those not attending, the talk will also be live streamed and a recording will be available shortly after…

Downloading Streams

There have been major changes since the writing of this post please see the new page on our developer site for the latest information on downloading.

Recently we have added support for downloading DASH, HLS and SmoothStreaming non-live streams in addition to…

Playback Notifications with ExoPlayer

Displaying a notification with playback controls is a best practice for media apps on Android. For audio playback in the background it’s even a requirement to attach a foreground service to a notification. To help make this task easier, we’ve added a new…

New Cast extension (and demo app)

If your app already uses ExoPlayer, you will be happy to know that integrating Cast into your app has just become a bit easier, as it now implements the Player interface. Version 2.7 includes the new Cast extension along with a demo app to use as starting point.

Faster HLS preparation

My last medium story outlines some good practices that HLS content producers can follow to make client-side media playback easier. This post aims to describe how chunkless preparation in ExoPlayer can now take advantage of rich master playlists to shorten the initial buffering period by…