CHANGELOG.md

6.0.0-alpha.10 (2023-11-13)

Bug Fixes

• fixes where Android's muted prop behavior differs from iOS (#3339) (8fbdc28)
• ios: fix wrong fullscreen method definition (#3338) (7f49b56)
• ios: player is frozen after re-focusing on the app (#3326) (722ae34)

Features

• add onVolumeChange event (#3322) (cdbc856)
• add release-it (#3342) (da27089)
• ios: add onBandwidthUpdate event (#3331) (9054db3)

Changelog

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• Android, iOS: add onVolumeChange event #3322

Version 6.0.0-alpha.9

• All: add built-in typescript support #3266
• All: update documentation generation #3296
• BREAKING CHANGE❗️Android: update isCodecSupported to return enum #3254
• Android: use explicit not-exported flag for AudioBecomingNoisyReceiver #3327
• Android: remove kotlin-android-extensions #3299
• Android: ensure audio volume is changed in UI thread 3292
• Android: multiple internal refactor and switch to kotlin
• Android: refactor log management and add an option to increase log verbosity #3277
• iOS: Fix audio session category when not using the audioOutput prop
• iOS: implement onPlaybackStateChanged callback #3307
• iOS: remove false calls at onPlaybackRateChange #3306
• iOS: audio does not work with headphones #3284
• iOS: Resuming video ad after closing the in-app browser on iOS #3275
• iOS, Android: expose playback functions to ref #3245
• tvOS: fix build: #3276
• Windows: fix build error from over-specified SDK version #3246
• Windows: fix onError not being raised #3247

Version 6.0.0-alpha.8

• All: Playing audio over earpiece #2887
• All: Prepare for fabric #3175 #
• iOS: Fix Pip #3221
• iOS: Fix regression in presentFullscreenPlayer & dismissFullscreenPlayer #3230
• tvOS: Fix build #3207
• tvOS: Add sample #3208
• tvOS: Allow chapter customization #3216
• doc: Fix internal links #3229

Version 6.0.0-alpha.7

• All: clean JS warnings (#3183)
• Android: Add shutterView color configurtion (#3179)
• Android: React native 0.73 support (#3163)
• Android: Fix memory leaks from AudioManager #3123
• Android: Fixed syntax error #3182
• iOS: Fix freeze at playback startup (#3173)
• iOS: Various safety checks (#3168)

Version 6.0.0-alpha.6

• Feature: Video range support #3030
• iOS: remove undocumented currentTime property #3064
• iOS: make sure that the audio in ads is muted when the player is muted. #3068
• iOS: make IMA build optionnal

Version 6.0.0-alpha.5

• iOS: ensure controls are not displayed when disabled by user #3017
• iOS: app crashes on call to presentFullScreenPlayer #2808
• Android: Fix publicated progress handler causing duplicated progress event #2972
• Android: Fix audio/Subtitle tracks selection #2979
• Android: add new events on tracks changed to be notified of audio/text/video Tracks update during playback 2806
• Feature: Add VAST support for AVOD #2923
• Sample: Upgrade react-native version of basic sample #2960

Version 6.0.0-alpha.4

• ensure src is always provided to native player even if it is invalid #2857
• Sample: Add react-native-video controls support #2852
• Android: Switch Google's maven repository to default google() #2860
• Android: Implement focusable prop so the video view can toggle whether it is focusable for non-touch devices #2819
• Android: fix linter warning [#2891] (#2891)
• Fix iOS RCTSwiftLog naming collision #2868
• Added "homepage" to package.json #2882
• Fix regression when fullscreen prop is used combined with controls #2911
• Fix: memory leak issue on iOS #2907
• Fix setting text tracks before player is initialized on iOS #2935

Version 6.0.0-alpha.3

• Fix ios build #2854

Version 6.0.0-alpha.2

• Upgrade ExoPlayer to 2.18.1 #2846
• Feature add new APIs to query supported features of device decoder (widevine level & codec capabilities) on android #2740
• Feature add support of subtitle styling on android #2759
• Fix Android #2690 ensure onEnd is not sent twice #2690
• Fix Exoplayer progress not reported when paused #2664
• Call playbackRateChange onPlay and onPause #1493
• Fix being unable to disable sideloaded texttracks in the AVPlayer #2679
• Fixed crash when iOS seek method called reject on the promise #2743
• Fix maxBitRate property being ignored on Android #2670
• Fix crash when the source is a cameraroll [#2639] (#2639)
• Fix IOS UI frame drop on loading video [#2848] (#2848)

Version 6.0.0-alpha.1

• Remove Android MediaPlayer support #2724 WARNING: when switching from older version to V6, you need to remove all refrerences of android-exoplayer. This android-exoplayer folder has been renamed to android. Exoplayer is now the only player implementation supported.

• Replace Image.propTypes with ImagePropTypes. #2718

• Fix iOS build caused by type mismatch #2720

• ERROR TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating '_reactNative.Image.propTypes.resizeMode') #2714

• Fix video endless loop when repeat set to false or not specified. #2329

Version 6.0.0-alpha.0

• Support disabling buffering #2689
• Fix AudioFocus bug that could cause the player to stop responding to play/pause in some instances. #2689
• Fix player crashing when it is being cleared. #2689
• Add support for customising back buffer duration and handle network errors gracefully to prevent releasing the player when network is lost. #2689
• Allow player to be init before source is provided, and later update once a source is provided. #2689
• Adds handling for providing a empty source in order to stop playback and clear out any existing content #2689
• Add support for detecting if format is supported and exclude unsupported resolutions from auto quality selection and video track info in RN. #2689
• Improve error handling #2689
• Add support for L1 to L3 Widevine fallback if playback fails initially. #2689
• Reduce buffer size based on available heap #2689
• Force garbage collection when there is no available memory #2689
• Improve memory usage #2689
• Support disabling screen recording #2689
• Improved error capturing #2689
• Fix DRM init crashes #2689
• Improve progress reporting #2689
• Fix progress loss when network connection is regained #2689
• Add Google's maven repository to avoid build error #2552
• Fix iOS 15.4 HLS playback race condition #2633
• Fix app crash from NPE in Exoplayer error handler #2575
• Fix default closed captioning behavior for Android ExoPlayer #2181
• Disable pipController init if pictureInPicture is false #2645
• Make sure modifiers are applied before playing #2395
• Better support newer versions of RNW (64 and newer) #2535
• Fix nil string uri parameter error #695
• (Breaking) Bump shaka-player to 3.3.2 #2587
• Improve basic player example on android #2662
• Ensure we always use hideShutterView before showing the shutterView on Android #2609
• Convert iOS implementation to Swift #2527
• Add iOS support for decoding offline sources #2527
• Update basic example applications (React Native 0.63.4) #2527
• Upgrade ExoPlayer to 2.17.1 #2498
• Fix volume reset issue in exoPlayer #2371
• Change WindowsTargetPlatformVersion to 10.0 #2706
• Fixed Android seeking bug #2712
• Fixed onReadyForDisplay not being called #2721
• Fix type of _eventDispatcher on iOS target to match bridge.eventDispatcher() #2720

Version 5.2.0

• Fix for tvOS native audio menu language selector
• Update ExoPlayer to allow pre-init and content clear [#2412] (#2412)
• iOS rate is reset to 1.0 after play/pause [#2167] (#2167)
• Upgrade ExoPlayer to 2.13.2 [#2317] (#2317)
• Fix AudioFocus pausing video when attempting to play [#2311] (#2311)

Version 5.1.0-alpha9

• Add ARM64 support for windows #2137
• Fix deprecated API bug for windows #2119
• Added rate property and autolinking support for windows #2206

Version 5.1.0-alpha8

• Fixing ID3 Frame Error When Receiving EventMessage in TimedMetadata #2116

Version 5.1.0-alpha7

• Basic support for DRM on iOS and Android #1445

Version 5.1.0-alpha6

• Fix iOS bug which would break size of views when video is displayed with controls on a non full-screen React view. #1931
• Fix video dimensions being undefined when playing HLS in ios. #1992
• Add support for audio mix with other apps for iOS. #1978
• Properly implement pending seek for iOS. #1994
• Added preferredForwardBufferDuration (iOS) - the duration the player should buffer media from the network ahead of the playhead to guard against playback disruption. (#1944)
• Added currentPlaybackTime (Android ExoPlayer, iOS) - when playing an HLS live stream with a EXT-X-PROGRAM-DATE-TIME tag configured, then this property will contain the epoch value in msec. (#1944)
• Added trackId (Android ExoPlayer) - Configure an identifier for the video stream to link the playback context to the events emitted. (#1944)
• Added preventsDisplaySleepDuringVideoPlayback (#2019)
• Reverted the JS fullscreening for Android. #2013
• Set iOS request headers without needing to edit RCTVideo.m. #2014
• Fix exoplayer aspect ratio update on source changes #2053

Version 5.1.0-alpha5

• Add support for react-native Windows Cpp/WinRT #1893

Version 5.1.0-alpha4

• Fix android play/pause bug related to full-screen mode #1916

Version 5.1.0-alpha3

• Improve Android Audio Focus #1897

Version 5.1.0-alpha2

• Added support for full-screen functionality in Android Exoplayer #1730

Version 5.1.0-alpha1

• Fixed Exoplayer doesn't work with mute=true (Android). #1696
• Added support for automaticallyWaitsToMinimizeStalling property (iOS) #1723
• Bump Exoplayer to 2.10.4, remove deprecated usages of Exoplayer methods (Android). #1753
• Preserve Exoplayer BandwidthMeter instance across video plays, this should noticeably improve streaming bandwidth detection (Android).

Version 5.0.2

• Fix crash when RCTVideo's superclass doesn't observe the keyPath 'frame' (iOS) #1720

Version 5.0.1

• Fix AndroidX Support bad merge

Version 5.0.0 [Deprecated]

• AndroidX Support

Version 4.4.4

• Handle racing conditions when props are settled on Exoplayer

Version 4.4.3

• Fix mute/unmute when controls are present (iOS) #1654
• Fix Android videos being able to play with background music/audio from other apps.
• Fixed memory leak on iOS when using controls #1647
• (Android) Update gradle and target SDK #1629
• Fix iOS stressed mount/unmount crash #1646

Version 4.4.2

• Change compileOnly to implementation on gradle (for newer gradle versions and react-native 0.59 support) #1592
• Replaced RCTBubblingEventBlock events by RCTDirectEventBlock to avoid event name collisions #1625
• Added onPlaybackRateChange to README #1578
• Added onReadyForDisplay to README #1627
• Improved handling of poster image. Fixes bug with displaying video and poster simultaneously. #1627
• Fix background audio stopping on iOS when using controls #1614

Version 4.4.1

• Fix tvOS picture-in-picture compilation regression #1518
• fullscreen rotation issues with iOS built-in controls #1441
• Fix player freeze when playing audio files on ExoPlayer #1529

Version 4.4.0

• Fix runtime warning by replacing UIManager.RCTVideo with UIManager.getViewManagerConfig('RCTVideo') (and ensuring backwards compat) #1487
• Fix loading package resolved videos when using video-caching #1438
• Fix "message sent to deallocated instance" crash on ios #1482
• Display a warning when source is empty #1478
• Don't crash on iOS for an empty source #1246
• Recover from from transient internet failures when loading on ExoPlayer #1448
• Add controls support for ExoPlayer #1414
• Fix check for text tracks when iOS caching enabled #1387
• Add support for Picture in Picture on iOS #1325
• Fix UIManager undefined variable #1488

Version 4.3.0

• Fix iOS video not displaying after switching source #1395
• Add the filterEnabled flag, fixes iOS video start time regression #1384
• Fix text not appearing in release builds of Android apps #1373
• Update to ExoPlayer 2.9.3 #1406
• Add video track selection & onBandwidthUpdate #1199
• Recovery from transient internet failures and props to configure the custom retry count #1448

Version 4.2.0

• Don't initialize filters on iOS unless a filter is set. This was causing a startup performance regression #1360
• Support setting the maxBitRate #1310
• Fix useTextureView not defaulting to true #1383
• Fix crash on MediaPlayer w/ Android 4.4 & avoid memory leak #1328

Version 4.1.0

• Generate onSeek on Android ExoPlayer & MediaPlayer after seek completes #1351
• Remove unneeded onVideoSaved event #1350
• Disable AirPlay if sidecar text tracks are enabled #1304
• Add possibility to remove black screen while video is loading in Exoplayer #1355

Version 4.0.1

• Add missing files to package.json #1342

Version 4.0.0

• Partial support for timed metadata on Android MediaPlayer #707
• Support video caching for iOS #955
• Video caching cleanups #1172
• Add ipod-library support #926
• Fix crash on ExoPlayer when there are no audio tracks #1233
• Reduce package size #1231
• Remove unnecessary import in TextTrackType #1229
• Prevent flash between poster and video #1167
• Support react-native-dom #1253
• Update to ExoPlayer 2.8.2. Android SDK 26 now required #1170
• Update to ExoPlayer 2.8.4 #1266
• Add fullscreenOrientation option for iOS #1215
• Update to ExoPlayer 2.9.0 #1285
• Switch useTextureView to default to true #1286
• Re-add fullscreenAutorotate prop #1303
• Make seek throw a useful error for NaN values #1283
• Video Filters and Save Video #1306
• Fix: volume should not change on onAudioFocusChange event #1327
• Update ExoPlayer to 2.9.1 and OkHTTP to 3.12.0 #1338

Version 3.2.0

• Basic fullscreen support for Android MediaPlayer #1138
• Simplify default Android SDK code #1145 #1146
• Various iOS sideloaded text track fixes #1157
• Fix #1150 where assets with bundled assets don't work on iOS in release mode #1162
• Support configuring the buffer on Android ExoPlayer #1160
• Prevent sleep from sleeping while videos are playing on Android MediaPlayer #1117
• Update NewtonSoft JSON to match react-native-windows version #1169

Version 3.1.0

• Support sidecar text tracks on iOS #1109
• Support onAudioBecomingNoisy on iOS #1131

Version 3.0

• Inherit Android buildtools and SDK version from the root project #1081
• Automatically play on ExoPlayer when the paused prop is not set #1083
• Preserve Android MediaPlayer paused prop when backgrounding #1082
• Support specifying headers on ExoPlayer as part of the source #805
• Prevent iOS onLoad event during seeking #1088
• ExoPlayer playableDuration incorrect #1089

Version 2.3.1

• Revert PR to inherit Android SDK versions from root project. Re-add in 3.0 #1080

Version 2.3.0

• Support allowsExternalPlayback on iOS #1057
• Inherit Android buildtools and SDK version from the root project #999
• Fix bug that caused ExoPlayer to start paused if playInBackground was set #833
• Fix crash if clearing an observer on iOS that was already cleared #1075
• Add audioOnly prop for music files #1039
• Support seeking with more exact tolerance on iOS #1076

Version 2.2.0

• Text track selection support for iOS & ExoPlayer #1049
• Support outputting to a TextureView on Android ExoPlayer #1058
• Support changing the left/right balance on Android MediaPlayer #1051
• Prevent multiple onEnd notifications on iOS #832
• Fix doing a partial swipe on iOS causing a black screen #1048
• Fix crash when switching to a new source on iOS #974
• Add cookie support for ExoPlayer #922
• Remove ExoPlayer onMetadata that wasn't being used #1040
• Fix bug where setting the progress interval on iOS didn't work #800
• Support setting the poster resize mode #595