ExoPlayer is an application level media player for Android. It provides an alternative to Android’s MediaPlayer API for playing audio and video both locally and over the Internet. ExoPlayer supports features not currently supported by Android’s MediaPlayer API, including DASH and SmoothStreaming adaptive playbacks. Unlike the MediaPlayer API, ExoPlayer is easy to customize and extend, and can be updated through Play Store application updates.
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- The developer guide provides a wealth of information to help you get started.
- The class reference documents the ExoPlayer library classes.
- The release notes document the major changes in each release.
- The master branch holds the most recent minor release.
- Most development work happens on the dev branch.
- Additional development branches may be established for major features.
The repository includes Eclipse projects for both the ExoPlayer library and its accompanying demo application. To get started:
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Install Eclipse and setup the Android SDK.
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Open Eclipse and navigate to File->Import->General->Existing Projects into Workspace.
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Select the root directory of the repository.
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Import the ExoPlayerDemo and ExoPlayerLib projects.
ExoPlayer can also be built using Gradle. You can include it as a dependent project and build from source:
// settings.gradle
include ':app', ':..:ExoPlayer:library'
// app/build.gradle
dependencies {
compile project(':..:ExoPlayer:library')
}
If you want to use ExoPlayer as a jar, run:
./gradlew jarRelease
and copy library.jar to the libs-folder of your new project.
The project is also available on jCenter:
compile 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:rX.X.X'
Where rX.X.X should be replaced with the desired version.