fix: Fix initial video stretching by forcing measurement updates

[syed-tp]

• React Native's layout system optimizes by suppressing measurement updates for native views that have static dimensions defined in their styles. This optimization conflicts with the Media3 PlayerView's internal AspectRatioFrameLayout, which relies on granular layout requests to correctly calculate and apply letterboxing/pillarboxing once video dimensions are detected from the stream.
• This change overrides requestLayout to manually post a measurement pass, ensures the player bypasses the layout suppression that was causing the video to remain stretched until a major UI event (like a fullscreen toggle) occurred. This guarantees the correct aspect ratio is preserved from the very first frame of playback.

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request resolves an issue where videos in the TPStreamsRNPlayerView would initially appear stretched due to React Native's layout optimizations preventing timely measurement updates. By explicitly forcing a layout pass, the change ensures that the video player correctly calculates and applies its aspect ratio from the start, providing a consistent viewing experience.

Highlights

• Addressing React Native Layout Optimization: React Native's layout system optimizes by suppressing measurement updates for native views with static dimensions, which conflicts with Media3 PlayerView's internal AspectRatioFrameLayout.
• Forcing Measurement Updates: The requestLayout method in TPStreamsRNPlayerView is now overridden to manually post a measurement pass, ensuring the player bypasses the layout suppression.
• Preserving Video Aspect Ratio: This change guarantees that the correct video aspect ratio is preserved from the very first frame of playback, preventing initial video stretching.

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Code Review

This pull request addresses an issue where videos would initially appear stretched in React Native on Android. The fix involves overriding requestLayout in TPStreamsRNPlayerView to manually trigger a measure and layout pass, forcing the underlying AspectRatioFrameLayout to update correctly. The approach is sound and directly targets the described problem. My review includes a couple of suggestions to improve the implementation's performance robustness and long-term maintainability.