better_player_android 1.12.0

The Android implementation of the better_player plugin, providing high-performance video playback using ExoPlayer (Media3) and FFI for seamless integration in Flutter apps.

1.12.0

• Updated: Upgraded androidx.media3 to 1.11.1, androidx.lifecycle to 2.11.0, androidx.annotation to 1.11.0, and androidx.work:work-runtime to 2.12.0.
• Updated: Removed legacy unused androidx.media:media dependency and imports.
• Fixed: Pre-cache worker falsely reporting HTTP errors as completed downloads.
• Fixed: Widevine DRM defaulting to L3 software security level when drmSecurityLevel is not specified.

1.11.0

• Updated: Modernized analysis_options.yaml to inherit root options and resolved static analysis lints.

1.10.1

• Fixed: Synchronized BetterPlayerApi.activity during activity configuration changes and removed duplicated screen capture protection logic.

1.10.0

• Added: Window screen capture and recording protection via Android FLAG_SECURE window flag.
• Updated: Dependency better_player_platform_interface to ^1.6.0.

1.9.0

• Added: Native pre-cache progress reporting in CacheWorker via BetterPlayerPreCacheCallback.

1.8.0

• Added: setTextTrack method on BetterPlayer and TrackSelectionOverride on ExoPlayer text renderer for embedded closed captions (#1066).
• Added: onCues callback on BetterPlayerCallback emitting decoded cues from Media3 CueGroup.

1.7.1

• Added: Better Player logo screenshot and branding metadata for pub.dev package listing.

1.7.0

• Fixed: Guarded getAbsolutePosition against unset timeline window start times (C.TIME_UNSET) and out-of-range epoch values on live streams (#1206, #1198) (by @RtypeStudios, @geriby23).
• Fixed: Avoided enqueueing ImageWorker when notification imageUrl is empty and removed unused sendSeekToEvent method (#1041, #1135) (by @ptsekov).

1.6.1

• Fixed: Resolved Android media notification tap intent via packageManager.getLaunchIntentForPackage by default and supported fully qualified activityName values (#1138).
• Fixed: Supported file:// URIs and proper bitmap bounds sampling when loading local notification images in ImageWorker (#883).
• Fixed: Restored sendBufferingUpdate emission during position polling and playback readiness so buffered progress updates on the seekbar.

1.6.0

• Fixed: Resolved Android cache clearing failure and OutOfMemory bugs by properly delegating clearCache() to ExoPlayer's SimpleCache.removeResource().
• Fixed: Blocked HLS pre-caching attempts. Pre-caching HLS streams natively caches only the playlist file (causing 0% progress bugs on Android).
• Fixed: Added try-catch block to enterPictureInPictureMode to prevent crashes when the activity is not in a valid state for PiP.

1.5.0

• Added: Configurable Android Auto Frame Rate (AFR) matching via ExoPlayer's setVideoChangeFrameRateStrategy.
• Fixed: Resolved issue where video events were broadcast to all active players instead of the specific player instance by correctly capturing the texture ID.

1.4.0

• Added: Supported RTSP streaming on Android via androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer-rtsp.

1.3.1

• Updated: package metadata

1.3.0

• [BREAKING_CHANGE] Updated: Upgraded androidx.media3 version from 1.1.1 to 1.11.0.
• [BREAKING_CHANGE] Updated: Raised minSdkVersion to 24.
• [BREAKING_CHANGE] Updated: Upgraded androidx.media:media to 1.7.0.
• Fixed: Resolved MediaSession token resolution error (sessionCompatToken) introduced in the Media3 upgrade.
• Added: Supported configurable drmSecurityLevel to enable Widevine L1 playback.

1.2.0

• Added: Support for native-to-Dart log streaming (setupLogCallback) via JNI for ExoPlayer.
• Added: Reintroduced example directory with documentation to the package.
• Updated: Enhanced package description in pubspec.yaml for better discoverability.

1.1.0

• Added: Migrated native bridge to JNI using jnigen for high-performance direct communication with the Android media engine.
• Fixed: Memory leak in player disposal and optimized WorkManager threading for caching.

1.0.2

• Docs: Updated model name references in example.md.

1.0.1

• Add thin examples to platform packages and decoupled example app.

1.0.0

• Updated: Extracted Android native code from the core package into a standalone federated plugin package (better_player_android).
• Fixed: Added missing result.success(null) for setMixWithOthers method channel call.