bitmovin-player-react-native - npm Package Versions

[0.14.1] - 2023-11-16

Fixed

• Android: PlayerView destroys attached Player instance on destroy. Player lifecycle must be handled on the creation side

[0.14.0] - 2023-11-14

Added

• LiveConfig.minTimeshiftBufferDepth to control the minimum buffer depth of a stream needed to enable time shifting
• Player.buffer to control buffer preferences and to query the current buffer state
• DownloadFinishedEvent to signal when the download of specific content has finished
• Player.videoQuality, Player.availableVideoQualities, and VideoDownloadQualityChangedEvent to query current video qualities and listen to related changes
• Player.playbackSpeed, Player.canPlayAtPlaybackSpeed, PlaybackSpeedChangedEvent to query, control, and listen to changes to the speed of the playback
• Support for UserInterfaceType.Subtitle on Android

Fixed

• Android: Playback doesn't pause when app goes to background
• Android: PlayerView.onDestroy not being called when the view is detached from the view hierarchy

[0.13.0] - 2023-10-20

Added

• API Reference now can be found here
• PlayerViewConfig with a UiConfig to the PlayerView to enable configuration of the visual presentation and behaviour
• PictureInPictureConfig to PlayerViewConfig to allow configuring the Picture in Picture behavior
• PictureInPictureConfig.isEnabled to enable configuring if Picture in Picture is enabled
• PictureInPictureConfig.shouldEnterOnBackground to start Picture in Picture automatically when the app transitions to background
• onPictureInPictureAvailabilityChanged event is now emitted on iOS and tvOS in addition to Android
• BufferConfig to configure player buffer depth
• PlayerView.isPictureInPictureRequested to programmatically create a Picture in Picture request
• PlayerView.scalingMode to allow changing the video scaling mode

Changed

• Update IMA SDK dependency on Android to 3.31.0
• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.47.0

Deprecated

• PlaybackConfig.isPictureInPictureEnabled in favor of PictureInPictureConfig.isEnabled

[0.12.0] - 2023-09-25

Added

• DefaultMetadata for configuration of the bundled analytics collector
• Player.analytics to access the AnalyticsApi and interact with the bundled analytics collector
• SourceConfig.analyticsSourceMetadata for extended configuration of the bundled analytics collector
• Google Cast SDK support for Android and iOS

Changed

• AnalyticsConfig properties to match the Bitmovin analytics v3 API
• Use jason build of Bitmovin's native Android SDK
• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.44.0

Removed

• AnalyticsCollector in favor of the bundled analytics functionality
• CdnProvider, as the property on the AnalyticsConfig is now a string

[0.11.0] - 2023-09-11

Added

• Player.getAudioTrack and Player.getSubtitleTrack APIs to get currently selected audio and subtitle tracks
• SourceConfig.description property to allow setting a description for the source
• Player.getThumbnail and Source.getThumbnail APIs to get thumbnail images

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.43.0

[0.10.0] - 2023-09-04

Added

• Offline playback support on Android and iOS
• SourceConfig.options to enable configuring stream start position
• PlayerConfig.adaptationConfig to allow configuring the player's adaptation behavior
• Player.setMaxSelectableBitrate to allow setting the maximum selectable bitrate on the Player

[0.9.2] - 2023-08-24

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native iOS SDK version to 3.43.1

[0.9.1] - 2023-08-17

Fixed

• Android: Player sometimes plays sound but doesn't display video nor controls.

[0.9.0] - 2023-08-11

Added

• Support for Player.analyticsCollector.addSourceMetadata to allow updating metadata assigned to the current source
• Support for CustomData.experimentName for the A/B testing support with Bitmovin Analytics
• iOS, tvOS: Support for configuring UI type via StyleConfig.userInterfaceType

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native iOS SDK version to 3.42.0

Fixed

• Android: Player sometimes plays sound but no video

[0.8.0] - 2023-07-31

Added

• Support for programmatic fullscreen request (PlayerView.isFullscreenRequested)

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native iOS SDK version to 3.41.2
• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.40.0
• Update IMA SDK dependency on iOS to 3.18.4, respectively 4.8.2 for tvOS
• Update IMA SDK dependency on Android to 3.29.0

Fixed

• Android: Sporadic black screen after initialization