bb_player 8.53.0

Flutter plugin for Blue Billywig's native video player SDK. Provides hardware-accelerated playback with VAST/VPAID ads, analytics, Chromecast, Picture-in-Picture, fullscreen, outstream, and Shorts (ve [...]

8.53.0

• Android: switched BBPlayerView to true Hybrid Composition (initExpensiveAndroidView) instead of Texture Layer Hybrid Composition. Taps on the native control-bar buttons (settings / fullscreen) in the channel detail player were being swallowed under TLHC's synthesised touch dispatch; Hybrid Composition routes touches natively to the embedded views. Also the correct mode for the player's SurfaceView output (required for 10-bit / HDR / secure playback).
• Android: bumped the native player SDK floor to 8.52.+ (was 8.50.+). BB native SDK 8.52 (PR #512) widened the player's host-activity check from AppCompatActivity to FragmentActivity, so the settings / track BottomSheet now shows under Flutter's FlutterFragmentActivity host. On 8.50.x the sheet silently never appeared (tap registered, no panel).

8.50.0

• Switched the package version to follow BB sprint release logic — the minor track now aligns with the BB native SDK (8.50.x for SDK 8.50). The previous v1.0.0 has been superseded; consumers should pin bb_player: ^8.50.0.
• Bumped native SDKs to 8.50.0 (iOS) and 8.50.+ (Android), aligning with the latest Blue Billywig native player kits.
• Reach parity with react-native-bb-player's public API surface:
  • LoadContext parameter on every loadWith* method (contextEntityType / contextEntityId / contextCollectionType / contextCollectionId).
  • loadWithContentIdAndType canonical loader with BBContentType enum (mediaclip/c, mediacliplist/l, project/p/pj).
  • New BBPlayerController methods: setInView, unload, updatePlayout, presentModal, closeModal, endCastSession.
  • New getters: getInView, getAdMediaWidth, getAdMediaHeight, getIsCasting, getCastDeviceName.
  • BBCastButton and BBCastMiniControls widgets (render an empty placeholder when the host activity isn't a FragmentActivity or the Cast SDK isn't linked).
  • Module-level BBModalPlayer API (present / dismiss / addEventListener).
  • addCastSessionListener for global Cast session events.
  • convertPlayoutUrlToMediaclipUrl utility.
• BBShortsViewOptions now accepts a typed BBShortsDisplayFormat (full/list/player), shelfStartSpacing, shelfEndSpacing, and skipShortsAdOnSwipe.
• BBOutstreamView: added real spring physics (damping/stiffness), none / layout animation types, isCollapsed getter, and animateCollapse/animateExpand aliases.
• Example app restructured into per-feature screens mirroring the React Native demo: Simple Player → API Reference → Shorts → Outstream Ads → Modal Player. Deep-link handler (bbplayer://watch/<id>) included.
• Docs split into per-feature guides under doc/guides/.
• Android: bumped to Kotlin 2.3.10 and enabled core-library desugaring (required by BB SDK 8.50+).
• iOS: marked platform-view classes @MainActor for Swift 6 strict concurrency.

Breaking

• Apps using BBCastButton (or anything that mounts the Cast picker) must use FlutterFragmentActivity as the host activity (not the default FlutterActivity). See example/android/.../MainActivity.kt.

1.0.0

• Initial release
• BBPlayerView widget for video playback
• BBShortsView widget for vertical video (TikTok-style)
• BBOutstreamView widget for animated outstream ad placements
• Full playback controls (play, pause, seek, volume, fullscreen)
• 40+ event callbacks for playback, ads, analytics
• Async state queries (duration, currentTime, clipData, etc.)
• Content loading via clip ID, clip list, project, or JSON URL
• iOS support via BBNativePlayerKit (8.42.0)
• Android support via bbnativeplayersdk (8.42.+)
• Chromecast support on both platforms