This is an Example of React Native Video to Play Any Video in Android and IOS. There are many libraries available to play any video in React Native but React Native Video is the basic and one of the react-native-community members which means it is accepted by the React Native development team so I personally like to use it.
React Native Video provides all the props which you need while playing a video and we can control them easily. React Native Video does not provide the inbuilt controls to play /Pause or Seek the video as they have provided the props for the full access. If you are interested to design your own controls then your welcome else you can use a supporting library called react-native-media-controls. It provides you all the functional controls which you need for a standard video player.
Loading Overlay
Play / Pause
Seek
FullScreen
To Play a Video in React Native
To play a video in React Native we are going to use Video and MediaControls components from react-native-video and react-native-media-controls libraries.
Video component
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | <Video onEnd={this.onEnd} onLoad={this.onLoad} onLoadStart={this.onLoadStart} onProgress={this.onProgress} paused={this.state.paused} ref={videoPlayer => (this.videoPlayer = videoPlayer)} resizeMode={this.state.screenType} onFullScreen={this.state.isFullScreen} source={{ uri: 'https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4' }} style={styles.mediaPlayer} volume={10} /> |
MediaControls Component
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 | <MediaControls duration={this.state.duration} isLoading={this.state.isLoading} mainColor="#333" onFullScreen={this.onFullScreen} onPaused={this.onPaused} onReplay={this.onReplay} onSeek={this.onSeek} onSeeking={this.onSeeking} playerState={this.state.playerState} progress={this.state.currentTime} toolbar={this.renderToolbar()} /> |
For this example, We are going to play a simple video with MediaControls. So let’s get started.
To Make a React Native App
Getting started with React Native will help you to know more about the way you can make a React Native project. We are going to use react-native init to make our React Native App. Assuming that you have node installed, you can use npm to install the react-native-cli command line utility. Open the terminal and go to the workspace and run
npm install -g react-native-cliRun the following commands to create a new React Native project
react-native init ProjectNameIf you want to start a new project with a specific React Native version, you can use the --version argument:
react-native init ProjectName --version X.XX.Xreact-native init ProjectName --version react-native@nextThis will make a project structure with an index file named App.js in your project directory.
Installation of Dependencies
To use Video and MediaControls we need to install react-native-video and react-native-media-controls dependencies.
To install this open the terminal and jump into your project using
1 | cd ProjectName |
Run the following command to install
1 | npm install --save react-native-video |
1 | npm install --save react-native-media-controls |
This command will copy all the dependency into your node_module directory.
CocoaPods Installation
After the updation of React Native 0.60, they have introduced autolinking so we do not require to link the library but need to install pods. So to install pods use
1 | cd ios && pod install && cd .. |
Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code.
App.js
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 | /*Example of React Native Video*/ import React, { Component } from 'react'; //Import React import { Platform, StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native'; //Import Basic React Native Component import Video from 'react-native-video'; //Import React Native Video to play video import MediaControls, { PLAYER_STATES } from 'react-native-media-controls'; //Media Controls to control Play/Pause/Seek and full screen class App extends Component { videoPlayer; constructor(props) { super(props); this.state = { currentTime: 0, duration: 0, isFullScreen: false, isLoading: true, paused: false, playerState: PLAYER_STATES.PLAYING, screenType: 'content', }; } onSeek = seek => { //Handler for change in seekbar this.videoPlayer.seek(seek); }; onPaused = playerState => { //Handler for Video Pause this.setState({ paused: !this.state.paused, playerState, }); }; onReplay = () => { //Handler for Replay this.setState({ playerState: PLAYER_STATES.PLAYING }); this.videoPlayer.seek(0); }; onProgress = data => { const { isLoading, playerState } = this.state; // Video Player will continue progress even if the video already ended if (!isLoading && playerState !== PLAYER_STATES.ENDED) { this.setState({ currentTime: data.currentTime }); } }; onLoad = data => this.setState({ duration: data.duration, isLoading: false }); onLoadStart = data => this.setState({ isLoading: true }); onEnd = () => this.setState({ playerState: PLAYER_STATES.ENDED }); onError = () => alert('Oh! ', error); exitFullScreen = () => { alert('Exit full screen'); }; enterFullScreen = () => {}; onFullScreen = () => { if (this.state.screenType == 'content') this.setState({ screenType: 'cover' }); else this.setState({ screenType: 'content' }); }; renderToolbar = () => ( <View> <Text> toolbar </Text> </View> ); onSeeking = currentTime => this.setState({ currentTime }); render() { return ( <View style={styles.container}> <Video onEnd={this.onEnd} onLoad={this.onLoad} onLoadStart={this.onLoadStart} onProgress={this.onProgress} paused={this.state.paused} ref={videoPlayer => (this.videoPlayer = videoPlayer)} resizeMode={this.state.screenType} onFullScreen={this.state.isFullScreen} source={{ uri: 'https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4' }} style={styles.mediaPlayer} volume={10} /> <MediaControls duration={this.state.duration} isLoading={this.state.isLoading} mainColor="#333" onFullScreen={this.onFullScreen} onPaused={this.onPaused} onReplay={this.onReplay} onSeek={this.onSeek} onSeeking={this.onSeeking} playerState={this.state.playerState} progress={this.state.currentTime} toolbar={this.renderToolbar()} /> </View> ); } } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ container: { flex: 1, }, toolbar: { marginTop: 30, backgroundColor: 'white', padding: 10, borderRadius: 5, }, mediaPlayer: { position: 'absolute', top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0, backgroundColor: 'black', }, }); export default App; |
To Run the React Native App
Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.cd ProjectNamereact-native run-androidreact-native run-ios (macOS only).IOS
Android
This is how you can Play Video in Android and IOS devices using React Native Video Library. If you have any doubt or you want to share something about the topic you can comment below or contact us here. There will be more posts coming soon. Stay tuned!
Hope you liked it. 🙂
Nice Material on this page, how can we do scrolling and can add multiple videos in the page.
Thank you, Aamir, for your words. I am going to upload a post for that soon.
Sir kindly inform me by reply when you upload the post.
I’ll update it at the weekend. I’ll update you on your mail ID.
Thanks, Snehal Agrawal
You help me a lot.
Good to hear that. 🙂
hello. i did every step in this tutorial and i run into problem. position of the video is broken. can you help me out? Ty in advance. I can send you PS of simulator to see what i am talking about.
Can you please send it to aboutreact@gmail.com
Also please mention the devide type and the API level of the device so that I can check on the same. If possible mention the video URL too.