flutter_playout 1.0.37-MA-experimental

This plugin provides audio/video playback from a URL with background audio support, lock screen controls & player events for both iOS and Android.

AVPlayer for Flutter

Audio & Video player in Flutter. This plugin provides audio/video playback with background audio support and lock screen controls for both iOS & Android. Also provides player events such as onPlay, onPause, onTime etc. See example for more details.

• Video supports HLS and Progressive Steaming for both iOS & Android with multi-audio support.

• Audio supports playback from URL only.

Apps Using flutter_playout

See below for example of apps using flutter_playout.

1. MTA International (iOS - Android)

iOS Example

Android Example

Getting Started

Android

Uses ExoPlayer with PlatformView for Video playback and MediaPlayer for audio playback.

When using this plugin, please make sure you have included a notification icon for your project in drawable resource directory named ic_notification_icon. This plugin will use this icon to show lock screen controls for playback.

iOS

Uses AVPlayer with PlatformView for video playback and AVPlayer with Flutter MethodChannels for audio playback.

Please make sure you've enabled background audio capability for your project. Please also note that the player might not function properly on a simulator.

Opt-in to the embedded views preview by adding a boolean property to the app's Info.plist file with the key io.flutter.embedded_views_preview and the value YES.

HLS MultiAudio Support

Please see example app on how to implement multi audio for Android. On iOS multi audio is provided natively by the AVPlayer.

Analytics

Akamai Media Analytics

In order to use Akamai Media Analytics, please depend on the latest MA-experimental version of the plugin. This plugin supports Akamai Media Analytics for the player for both Android and iOS. This feature is however optional. If you have the license to use Akamai Media Analytics then follow below steps to enable this feature.

Android

You should have access to the Akamai documentation for the analytics library. Please download version 2.11 (same as the ExoPlayer version used in this plugin) of the ExoPlayerLoader and analytics library and follow instructions on adding them to your project.

iOS

For iOS the analytics library is embedded within the plugin so no setup required on the native side.

Enable Plugin in Dart

Once done, you can then pass the akamaiMediaAnalyticsConfigPATH and akamaiMediaAnalyticsCustomData (optional) parameters to the Video widget to enable Akamai analytics.

Video(
  autoPlay: true,
  showControls: widget.showPlayerControls,
  title: "MTA International",
  subtitle: "Reaching The Corners Of The Earth",
  preferredAudioLanguage: "eng",
  isLiveStream: true,
  position: 0,
  url: _url,
  onViewCreated: _onViewCreated,
  desiredState: widget.desiredState,
  akamaiMediaAnalyticsConfigPATH:
      "https://akamai.net/config.xml",
  akamaiMediaAnalyticsCustomData: new AkamaiMediaAnalyticsData()
      .withTitle("MTA International")
      .withEventName("vod-debug")
      .withDeliveryType(DeliveryType.O)
      .withCategory("My Category")
      .withSubCategory("My Sub-Category")
      .withShow("MTA International")
      .withPlayerId("default")
      .withDebugLogging()
      .build(),
)