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Expo

Expo Plugin

Starting from version 6.3.1, react-native-video supports an Expo plugin. You can configure react-native-video properties in the app.json, app.config.json, or app.config.js file.

This is particularly useful when using the Expo managed workflow (expo prebuild), as it automatically sets up react-native-video properties in the native part of the Expo project.

Example Configuration

// app.json
{
  "name": "my app",
  "plugins": [
    [
      "react-native-video",
      {
        "enableNotificationControls": true,
        "androidExtensions": {
          "useExoplayerRtsp": false,
          "useExoplayerSmoothStreaming": false,
          "useExoplayerHls": false,
          "useExoplayerDash": false
        }
      }
    ]
  ]
}

Expo Plugin Properties

PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
enableNotificationControlsbooleanfalseAdd required changes on android to use notification controls for video player
enableBackgroundAudiobooleanfalseAdd required changes to play video in background on iOS
enableADSExtensionbooleanfalseAdd required changes to use ads extension for video player
enableCacheExtensionbooleanfalseAdd required changes to use cache extension for video player on iOS
androidExtensionsobject{}You can enable/disable extensions as per your requirement - this allow to reduce library size on android
enableAndroidPictureInPicturebooleanfalseApply configs to be able to use Picture-in-picture on android
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