v0.20.0

Added

• preferSoftwareDecodingForAds in TweaksConfig to use software decoding for ads, which can be useful for low-end Android devices
• hideFirstFrame in PlayerViewConfig to ensure no frame of the main content is shown before pre-roll ads

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.64.0

v0.19.0

Added

• CueEnterEvent and CueExitEvent to signal when a subtitle entry transitions into an active or inactive status respectively

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.63.0
• Update Bitmovin's native iOS SDK version to 3.57.2

Fixed

• Fix potential event name conflicts with other 3rd party libraries

v0.18.0

Changed

• React Native version to 0.73.4
• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.61.0
• Update Bitmovin's native iOS SDK version to 3.56.3

Fixed

• Android: Subtitles appear out of frame

v0.17.0

Added

• Support for side-loaded SRT (SubRip) subtitles

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native iOS SDK version to 3.55.0

Fixed

• Remove patch-package usage from released product

v0.16.0

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.56.0
• Android: Kotlin version to 1.9.21

v0.15.0

Added

• Player (E2E) tests for Android and iOS can now be executed via yarn integration-test test:android and yarn integration-test test:ios respectively

Changed

• React Native version to 0.72.6
• React Native peer dependency version to 0.65.0+
• Update Bitmovin's native Android SDK version to 3.54.0
• Android: Kotlin version to 1.8.20

v0.14.2

Fixed

• Android: onEvent callback not being called on PlayerView
• iOS: onEvent on iOS has incomplete payload information
• tvOS: Picture in Picture sample screen has unwanted padding
• iOS: hide home indicator when entering fullscreen mode in the example application

v0.14.1

Fixed

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

v0.14.0

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

v0.13.0

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