The Android app for the cross-platform media player SimpliPlay :D
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simpliplay-android

(formerly known as ExoPlayer Creator)

An Android app that allows you to play video using ExoPlayer, which supports many video formats, supports subtitles, and even includes support for playlists in the AI2 releases! The Flutter version utilizes Media3, and the App Inventor (AI2) version utilizes Media2.

Looking for the iOS version? Check out simpliplay-ios!

App Inventor Ver.

The App Inventor version primarily uses the ExoPlayer for App Inventor extension to create ExoPlayer initializations, and is a modified version of the 1.0.4 AIA version of the ExoPlayer for App Inventor demo.

Some extensions used in the App Inventor version are not open source, while others are.

Extensions First Used
ExoPlayer for App Inventor v1
RelativeView v1
ComponentTools v1
UpdateMyApp v1.4.1 - v3.3
UrsAI2SideBar v2.0
OriginalToast v2.2
Network v2.4
UrsAI2KeepAwake v2.5
GetMetrics v2.5 - v4.4.3
CustomSpotlight v3.1
ImageNotifier v3.2.2
CustomDownloader v3.4
AltNotifier v3.4
NotificationStyle v3.4
TaifunClipboard v4.3.1
GestureDetect v4.6 (removed in v4.6.1)

It has been tested on the following devices with the following results:

Device Compatible? Real Device/VM
Android 16 (Pixel) Yes VM
Android 15 (Samsung & Pixel) Yes Real Device & VM
Android 14 (Samsung & Xiaomi) Yes Real Device
Android 11 (Xiaomi) Yes Real Device
Android 9 (Pixel) Yes VM
Android 8 (Pixel) Yes VM
Android 5 (Pixel) Partially VM

Android 5 VMs have encoding issues that don't occur on real Android 5 devices. Real devices should play media properly.

Flutter Ver.

The Flutter version was built in Android Studio with the Flutter plugin, and primarily relies on the video_player and chewie plugins, uses the keep_screen_on plugin to keep screen active when playing a video, uses the file_picker plugin to pick a media file on your device to play, and unlike the App Inventor version, uses a newer UI standard, which is rendered with Skia, Material UI 2, instead of the App Inventor version's OG Material Design and UI 1.

It uses Media 3 ExoPlayer, something the App Inventor version would've been dreaming of, but it has less controls, however, as a result, this version is much more user-friendly, and uses only ExoPlayer. It does not support a quality selector, or advanced audio settings, but it supports everything else the App Inventor version does in the ExoPlayer point of view (P.O.V).

Media3 Demo (Very Early Demo)

Warning

This version doesn't support media URLs or files, and serves as a demo in its purest form. It's also no longer supported, and will not recieve updates on further notice.

The Media3 Demo was built in Android Studio using Kotlin, and uses the Media3 Player app by @akhorasani as a base for all Media3 support, and uses the traditional INTENT methods for URL redirects in Kotlin.

It, unlike the other 2 versions, is in a very early state right now and does not support video URLs (believe me, I tried, and failed), as of now. However, the placeholder video is the Big Buck Bunny short film, stored in a GCP (Google Cloud Protocol) storage bucket.