(formerly known as ExoPlayer Creator)
An Android app that allows you to play video using ExoPlayer, which supports many video formats, supports subtitles, and even includes support for playlists in the AI2 releases! The Flutter version utilizes Media3, and the App Inventor (AI2) version utilizes Media2.
Looking for the iOS version? Check out simpliplay-ios!
The App Inventor version primarily uses the ExoPlayer for App Inventor extension to create ExoPlayer initializations, and is a modified version of the 1.0.4 AIA version of the ExoPlayer for App Inventor demo.
Some extensions used in the App Inventor version are not open source, while others are.
| Extensions | First Used |
|---|---|
| ExoPlayer for App Inventor | v1 |
| RelativeView | v1 |
| ComponentTools | v1 |
| v1.4.1 - v3.3 | |
| UrsAI2SideBar | v2.0 |
| OriginalToast | v2.2 |
| Network | v2.4 |
| UrsAI2KeepAwake | v2.5 |
| v2.5 - v4.4.3 | |
| CustomSpotlight | v3.1 |
| ImageNotifier | v3.2.2 |
| CustomDownloader | v3.4 |
| AltNotifier | v3.4 |
| NotificationStyle | v3.4 |
| TaifunClipboard | v4.3.1 |
| v4.6 (removed in v4.6.1) |
It has been tested on the following devices with the following results:
| Device | Compatible? | Real Device/VM |
|---|---|---|
| Android 16 (Samsung & Pixel) | Yes | Real Device & VM |
| Android 15 (Samsung & Pixel) | Yes | Real Device & VM |
| Android 14 (Samsung & Xiaomi) | Yes | Real Device |
| Android 13 (Samsung - LineageOS) | Yes | Real Device |
| Android 11 (Xiaomi) | Yes | Real Device |
| Android 9 (Pixel) | Yes | VM |
| Android 8 (Pixel) | Yes | VM |
| Android 7 (Samsung - LineageOS) | Yes | Real Device |
| Android 5 (Pixel) | Yes (not too well on VMs) | VM |
| Android 4.4 and below (Samsung) | NO | Real Device |
Android 5 VMs have encoding issues that don't occur on real Android 5 devices. Real devices should play media properly.
The app CANNOT be installed on Android 4.4 and below due to an installation minimum of Android 5+. But even after removing the limit, the app freezed every single time I attempted to launch it, so it is NOT compatible. It relies on ExoPlayer 2 at launch (initializes in the background for faster media loading), and since that always fails on Android 4.4 and below, the app does not work. And even if ExoPlayer 2 was in a separate screen, it would not work anyway due to the at-launch freeze when initializing it.
The Flutter version was built in Android Studio with the Flutter plugin, and primarily relies on the video_player and chewie plugins, uses the keep_screen_on plugin to keep screen active when playing a video, uses the file_picker plugin to pick a media file on your device to play, and unlike the App Inventor version, uses a newer UI standard, which is rendered with Skia, Material UI 2, instead of the App Inventor version's OG Material Design and UI 1.
It uses Media 3 ExoPlayer, something the App Inventor version would've been dreaming of, but it has less controls, however, as a result, this version is much more user-friendly, and uses only ExoPlayer. It does not support a quality selector, or advanced audio settings, but it supports everything else the App Inventor version does in the ExoPlayer point of view (P.O.V).
Warning
This version doesn't support media URLs or files, and serves as a demo in its purest form. It's also no longer supported, and will not recieve updates on further notice.
The Media3 Demo was built in Android Studio using Kotlin, and uses the Media3 Player app by @akhorasani as a base for all Media3 support, and uses the traditional INTENT methods for URL redirects in Kotlin.
It, unlike the other 2 versions, is in a very early state right now and does not support video URLs (believe me, I tried, and failed), as of now. However, the placeholder video is the Big Buck Bunny short film, stored in a GCP (Google Cloud Protocol) storage bucket.