bitmovin_player 0.4.0

Official Flutter bindings for Bitmovin's mobile Player SDKs.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

[0.4.0] - 2023-12-12

Added

Support for Picture-in-Picture (PiP) playback on iOS

• PictureInPictureEnter which is emitted when the player view is about to enter Picture-in-Picture mode
• PictureInPictureExit which is emitted when the player view is about to exit Picture-in-Picture mode
• PictureInPictureEntered which is emitted when the player view finishes entering Picture-in-Picture mode
• PictureInPictureExited which is emitted when the player view finishes exiting Picture-in-Picture mode
• PictureInPicture example page to test PiP and show how it can be integrated and used
• PlayerViewState.pictureInPicture namespace to access Picture-in-Picture methods
• PlayerViewState.pictureInPicture.isPictureInPicture to check whether the PlayerView is currently in Picture-in-Picture mode
• PlayerViewState.pictureInPicture.isPictureInPictureAvailable to check whether Picture-in-Picture mode is available
• PlayerViewState.pictureInPicture.enterPictureInPicture to make the PlayerView enter Picture-In-Picture mode
• PlayerViewState.pictureInPicture.exitPictureInPicture to make the PlayerView exit Picture-In-Picture mode
• PlayerViewConfig to configure a new PlayerView instance. Currently its only field is pictureInPictureConfig
• PictureInPictureConfig to configure Picture-in-Picture playback
• PictureInPictureConfig.isEnabled to set whether Picture-in-Picture feature is enabled or not
• PictureInPictureConfig.shouldEnterOnBackground to set whether Picture-in-Picture should start automatically when the app transitions to background

Changed

• PlayerView has a new argument playerViewConfig with a predefined default value

[0.3.0] - 2023-11-27

Added

• Support for background playback on iOS
  • PlaybackConfig.isBackgroundPlaybackEnabled to specify whether background playback is enabled
  • BackgroundPlayback example to the example application
• Support for AirPlay on iOS
  • Player.isAirPlayActive to indicate whether media is being played externally using AirPlay
  • Player.isAirPlayAvailable to indicate whether AirPlay is available
  • Player.showAirPlayTargetPicker() to display the AirPlay playback target picker
  • RemoteControlConfig.isAirPlayEnabled to control whether AirPlay should be possible
  • AirPlayAvailableEvent which is emitted when AirPlay is available
  • AirPlayChangedEvent which is emitted when AirPlay playback starts or stops

Changed

• Update Bitmovin's native Android Player SDK version to 3.52.0
• Update Bitmovin's native iOS Player SDK version to 3.49.0

[0.2.0] - 2023-11-06

Added

• Google Cast Support for Android and iOS

[0.1.0] - 2023-09-28

Added

• Support for DASH (only Android), HLS and progressive playback
• Support for playing back live streams
• DRM support for Widevine on Android and FairPlay on iOS
• Bitmovin Web UI support, including customizable CSS and JS files
• Bitmovin Analytics support
• Subtitle & Caption handling
• Fullscreen handling