react-native-theoplayer - npm Package Versions

[2.10.0] - 23-07-25

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on Android where the media button receiver would not accept button events in case multiple receivers are registered.
• Fixed an issue on Android where react-native-theoplayer would not build when depending on Android player SDK v5.6.0.
• Fixed an issue on Android where a pause event would not be dispatched when putting the app to the background during play-out of an ad, while background playback is enabled. The ad would also restart when bringing the app back to the foreground.

Changed

• Removed restrictions on media session playback actions for AndroidTV.
• Upgraded react-native version of the example app to react-native-tvos@0.71.12-0.

Added

• Added a version property to THEOplayer for querying the player version (e.g., '5.5.0') and playerSuite (e.g., '2023.3.0') versions.

[2.9.0] - 23-06-16

Changed

• Moved React Native UI to separate @theoplayer/react-native-ui package.

Removed

• Removed react-native-theoplayer dependencies on packages @react-native-community/slider, react-native-google-cast, react-native-svg, react-native-svg-web, react-native-url-polyfill and url-polyfill.

Added

• Added an overview of the available React Native connectors.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on Android where the background media service would crash the app in case it was started from the background.
• Fixed an issue on iOS where the delayed contentId extraction resulted in an incorrect value being passed to the license request setup.

[2.8.0] - 23-06-01

Added

• Added ignoreAvailabilityWindow property to SourceDescription.dash for Android and Web.
• Added needsTimescaleShifting, desiredTimescale and forceSeekToSynchronize properties to SourceDescription.dash for Web.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where text track cue changes were not applied to the TextTrack's cue property.
• Fixed an issue on Android where play-out of an MP4 stream would sometimes crash the player.
• Fixed an issue on Android where a pause event would not be dispatched while pausing during play-out of an ad.
• Fixed an issue on Android where hardware buttons, such as play and pause, were not handled anymore after toggling background audio support.
• Fixed an issue on Android where the app would crash when toggling background playback while multiple MediaBrowserServiceCompat instances are registered.

Changed

• Improved fullscreen support to use non-native fullscreen on Safari for iPad and Mac.
• Limited the set of available media session actions on Android when an ad or live stream is playing.
• Removed pausing the stream when disabling background playback on Android.

[2.7.0] - 23-05-15

Changed

• Approved player behaviour on iOS and Android when doing player operations such as play and pause in case no source was set.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on Android where if an invalid view tag is passed to the native bridge, it would crash the player.
• Fixed an issue on Web where preview thumbnails would fail to load.

Added

• Updated UI documentation with necessary dependencies.
• Added improved debug logging on iOS.

[2.6.0] - 23-05-05

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on Android where the currentProgramDateTime property of TimeUpdateEvent would not be formatted in milliseconds.
• Fixed an issue on Android where the order of text and media tracks would change when adding tracks.
• Fixed an issue on Web where an exception would be thrown when accessing the player API after the player had been destroyed.
• Fixed an issue with Google IMA where the main content wasn't resumed after a pre-roll ended.

Changed

• Use enum instead of a string union for ABRStrategyType.
• Changed the way artwork is fetched for NowPlayingInfo on the iOS Lockscreen, to prevent a crash caused by threading issues.

[1.8.4] - 23-04-27

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on Android where the pause event was not dispatched during play-out of an ad.

Added

• Added a videoAspectRatio property on the THEOplayerView for iOS and Android.
• Added a PlayerEventTypes.WAITING event that is dispatched when play-back stops due to lack of media data.

[2.5.0] - 23-04-26

Added

• Added an aspectRatio property on the THEOplayer instance that can be either FIT (default), FILL or ASPECT_FILL.

Changed

• Set theoplayer Web SDK as optional peer dependency.

[2.4.0] - 23-04-21

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on iOS and Android where cue event properties startTime and endTime with value Infinity or NaN were not passed correctly.
• Fixed an issue on iOS Safari where switching to fullscreen presentation during an ad would not work.
• Fixed an issue on iOS Safari where an ad could be skipped during unmuted autoplay.
• Fixed a memory leak on iOS where the player would be allocated after being destroyed.
• Fixed an issue on Android where building the SDK would require IMA to be enabled.

Changed

• Changed Web media session controls to only show trick-play buttons if the player is in foreground, or backgroundAudioEnabled is true, and never for ads and live stream.
• Changed Web media session controls to only show a play/pause button if the player is in foreground, or backgroundAudioEnabled is true, and never for ads.

Added

• Added the crossOrigin property to SourceDescription for requesting CORS access to content.

[2.3.0] - 23-04-14

Changed

• Updated picture-in-picture controls on Android to include forward/rewind buttons and disabled pause button for ads.

[2.2.0] - 23-04-12

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on Android and iOS where error codes were not correctly formatted.

Added

• Added RetryConfiguration on PlayerConfiguration for Web and Android.

Changed

• Set minimum THEOplayer dependency version to 5.0.1 for Web, iOS and Android.
• Set MediaPlaybackService disabled by default on Android.