Use in Third Party Library

You can use React Native Video in your third party library either as a dependency if you want to have specific version of the library or as a peer dependency if you want to version selection to be handled by the consumer of the library.

In JS

Add react-native-video as a dependency or peer dependency.

package.json

{
  "dependencies": {
    "react-native-video": "latest"
  }
  // OR
  "peerDependencies": {
    "react-native-video": "*"
  }
}

And then you can import it in your code.

import { VideoPlayer } from 'react-native-video';

const player = new VideoPlayer({ uri: 'https://www.example.com/video.mp4' });

player.play();

In Native

iOS

Add ReactNativeVideo as a dependency in your *.podspec file.

*.podspec

Pod::Spec.new do |s|
  // ...

  s.dependency 'ReactNativeVideo'
end

Android

Add :react-native-video and :react-native-nitro-modules as a dependency in your build.gradle file. Also you will need to add androidx.media3 dependencies. to use player and source in your library.

build.gradle

// ...

dependencies {
  // ...

  implementation project(':react-native-video')
  implementation project(':react-native-nitro-modules')

  implementation "androidx.media3:media3-common:1.4.1"
  implementation "androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer:1.4.1"
}