We are happy to inform you about major updates to our Android Native and React Native SDK to provide new cool features.
Android Native SDK:
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Exoplayer version upgrade – Upgraded Exoplayer dependency to latest version 2.18.0.
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Picture in Picture – You can also implement Picture in Picture mode in your app with our player by following the documentation presented here.
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Auto-Resume – While generating the embed info for a video, the user can also pass the flag enableAutoResume (default: false), to enable the auto-resume of the video playback from the last watched position. The documentation is here at end of this doc.
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Search in the caption – You can search the text in the selected closed caption to seek to a position of desired sentence or word. The offline playback also has an option to use and search in captions now.
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Offline download new setup – We are now using exoplayer’s download APIs to download and play videos offline which will in turn reduce the errors faced while downloading videos.
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Offline download in external storage – The content can now be downloaded in external storage(for example – SD card) and download notification can be customized at your end. The details can be found here and here.
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Caption language – You can set default caption language for a video.
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Common Error Codes Documented – You can also refer to the link here to see all the Error Codes and their descriptions.
Android React Native SDK:
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Latest Version updated to Latest version: 1.8.1.
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New Documentation – We have updated the documentation for react-native sdk to have more detailed description that can be found here.
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Auto-resume – You can also auto resume playback from the time till when you last watched a video. Documentation link.
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Custom player controls – We have also added the documentation to add custom controls in the player which can be found here.
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Fullscreen – You can now toggle full-screen of the player embedded in JS code using custom or native controls be following the documentation present here.
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The other features added in native sdk will also be implemented in the react-native sdk in some time.
A note for our users:
While we rigorously tested these features internally and with our initial Beta users, there could be still some clarification/improvement required. You can share your feedback and if any issues encountered by just writing us at support@vdocipher.com.
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