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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

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…