Customizing ExoPlayer’s UI components

ExoPlayer V2 includes several out-of-the-box UI components, most notably:

• PlaybackControlView is a view for controlling ExoPlayer instances. It displays standard playback controls including a play/pause button, fast-forward and rewind…

Tunneled video playback in ExoPlayer

From Lollipop (API level 21), Android device manufacturers have been able to implement an optional feature called tunneled video playback. Primarily intended for Android TVs, tunneled video playback promises benefits such as better audio/video synchronization (AV…

ExoPlayer 2 - Track selection

When a piece of media contains multiple tracks of a given type, for example multiple video tracks in different qualities or multiple audio tracks in different languages, ExoPlayer has to select which track of each type it wishes to play. For adaptive video playbacks, ExoPlayer…

HLS playback in ExoPlayer

ExoPlayer’s ultimate goal is to create compelling and stable playback experiences. These experiences can be thought as a combined effort between the player itself and the content provider. The purpose of this post is to shed some light on what ExoPlayer considers to be high quality…