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React Native Play Video
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 very good and widely accepted by react-native-community members 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
<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://assets.mixkit.co/videos/download/mixkit-countryside-meadow-4075.mp4'
}}
style={styles.mediaPlayer}
volume={10}
/>
MediaControls Component
<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-cli
Run the following commands to create a new React Native project
react-native init ProjectName
If 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.X
react-native init ProjectName --version react-native@next
This 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
cd ProjectName
Run the following command to install
npm install --save react-native-video
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
cd ios && pod install && cd ..
Code
Now Open App.js in any code editor and replace the code with the following code
App.js
// React Native Video Library to Play Video in Android and IOS
// https://aboutreact.com/react-native-video/
// import React in our code
import React, {useState, useRef} from 'react';
// import all the components we are going to use
import {SafeAreaView, StyleSheet, Text, View} from 'react-native';
//Import React Native Video to play video
import Video from 'react-native-video';
//Media Controls to control Play/Pause/Seek and full screen
import
MediaControls, {PLAYER_STATES}
from 'react-native-media-controls';
const App = () => {
const videoPlayer = useRef(null);
const [currentTime, setCurrentTime] = useState(0);
const [duration, setDuration] = useState(0);
const [isFullScreen, setIsFullScreen] = useState(false);
const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(true);
const [paused, setPaused] = useState(false);
const [
playerState, setPlayerState
] = useState(PLAYER_STATES.PLAYING);
const [screenType, setScreenType] = useState('content');
const onSeek = (seek) => {
//Handler for change in seekbar
videoPlayer.current.seek(seek);
};
const onPaused = (playerState) => {
//Handler for Video Pause
setPaused(!paused);
setPlayerState(playerState);
};
const onReplay = () => {
//Handler for Replay
setPlayerState(PLAYER_STATES.PLAYING);
videoPlayer.current.seek(0);
};
const onProgress = (data) => {
// Video Player will progress continue even if it ends
if (!isLoading && playerState !== PLAYER_STATES.ENDED) {
setCurrentTime(data.currentTime);
}
};
const onLoad = (data) => {
setDuration(data.duration);
setIsLoading(false);
};
const onLoadStart = (data) => setIsLoading(true);
const onEnd = () => setPlayerState(PLAYER_STATES.ENDED);
const onError = () => alert('Oh! ', error);
const exitFullScreen = () => {
alert('Exit full screen');
};
const enterFullScreen = () => {};
const onFullScreen = () => {
setIsFullScreen(isFullScreen);
if (screenType == 'content') setScreenType('cover');
else setScreenType('content');
};
const renderToolbar = () => (
<View>
<Text style={styles.toolbar}> toolbar </Text>
</View>
);
const onSeeking = (currentTime) => setCurrentTime(currentTime);
return (
<View style={{flex: 1}}>
<Video
onEnd={onEnd}
onLoad={onLoad}
onLoadStart={onLoadStart}
onProgress={onProgress}
paused={paused}
ref={videoPlayer}
resizeMode={screenType}
onFullScreen={isFullScreen}
source={{
uri:
'https://assets.mixkit.co/videos/download/mixkit-countryside-meadow-4075.mp4',
}}
style={styles.mediaPlayer}
volume={10}
/>
<MediaControls
duration={duration}
isLoading={isLoading}
mainColor="#333"
onFullScreen={onFullScreen}
onPaused={onPaused}
onReplay={onReplay}
onSeek={onSeek}
onSeeking={onSeeking}
playerState={playerState}
progress={currentTime}
toolbar={renderToolbar()}
/>
</View>
);
};
export default App;
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',
justifyContent: 'center',
},
});
To Run the React Native App
Open the terminal again and jump into your project using.
cd ProjectName
To run the project on an Android Virtual Device or on real debugging device
react-native run-android
or on the iOS Simulator by running (macOS only)
react-native run-ios
Output Screenshots
IOS
Android
This is how you can Play Video in Android and IOS devices using React Native Video Library. If you have any doubts 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. 🙂
Thanks, Snehal Agrawal
You help me a lot.
Good to hear that. 🙂
On fullscreen it is only stretching the video not making it in landscape mode. Video is not at all going to landscape mode.
It is because device orientation is lock. can you please try again with change in device orientation setting?
Do this library support any other video format ?
Yes this do support other formats.
Hello sir,
Is it possible to implement the below logic
When the user stops video due to some reasons,is it possible to show the video from where he left off.[ I mean duration ]
Yes Please see data.currentTime and you will get a hint
how can we show list of available videos
You need to access the local directory for the same. and then after getting the list from there, you have to create the list of videos. I haven’t done that before so not sure how to do that but you can use RNFS for that.
Hello
we can not show poster before load video in android platform?please help me
For this you have to make a parent component in which you will have two component (Image Viewer and Video Player) one will be active at a time. Initially Image will be visible and when a user click on the image you have to make the video visible and have to outplay it.
Example to Hide Show Component in React Native
will help you to do that.
hi sir
i have a flat list that showing multi videos on the screen .
the problem is that all the videos playing in the same time could you please help me ,
its been more then one month trying solve this problem.
thanks in advance.
Hello sir,
When i pass the dynamic video url it does not run the video. It keeps rotating. How can we add dynamic video url .
Please help.
What do you mean by dynamic URL?
Can we add volume control?
I’m getting the Error
Range Error : Invalid date in media-control package
Here below:
var date = new Date(0);
date.setSeconds(seconds);
return date.toISOString().substr(begin, end);