How to use android exoplayer

The ExoMedia library wraps exoplayer in simpler api and provides a video view for use in layouts. See usage examples on github: https://github.com/brianwernick/ExoMedia/

Exoplayer is a very advanced library. Even writing a bare minimum would take 40-50 lines of code. So if you really wanna use a sword to chop onions, here is a direct copy pasta :

//manifest.xml <manifest ...>  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>  <application    android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"    ...>    ...  </application></manifest>

//app/build.gradleapply plugin: 'com.android.application'android {    ...    compileOptions {        sourceCompatibility = 1.8        targetCompatibility = 1.8    }}dependencies {    ...    implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:2.10.4'}

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        ...        Context ctx =this;        String CONTENT_URL = "https://www.radiantmediaplayer.com/media/bbb-360p.mp4";        int playerID=R.id.pv_main;        int appNameStringRes = R.string.app_name;        startPlayingVideo(this,CONTENT_URL,playerID,appNameStringRes);    }    //    private void startPlayingVideo(Context ctx , String CONTENT_URL, int playerID, String appNameRes) {        PlayerView pvMain = ctx.findViewById(playerID);        //BandwidthMeter bandwidthMeter = new DefaultBandwidthMeter();        //TrackSelection.Factory videoTrackSelectionFactory = new AdaptiveTrackSelection.Factory(bandwidthMeter);                //TrackSelector trackSelectorDef = new DefaultTrackSelector(videoTrackSelectionFactory);        TrackSelector trackSelectorDef = new DefaultTrackSelector();        SimpleExoPlayer absPlayerInternal = ExoPlayerFactory.newSimpleInstance(ctx, trackSelectorDef);        String userAgent = Util.getUserAgent(ctx, ctx.getString(appNameRes));        DefaultDataSourceFactory defdataSourceFactory = new DefaultDataSourceFactory(ctx,userAgent);        Uri uriOfContentUrl = Uri.parse(CONTENT_URL);        MediaSource mediaSource = new ProgressiveMediaSource.Factory(defdataSourceFactory).createMediaSource(uriOfContentUrl);        absPlayerInternal.prepare(mediaSource);        absPlayerInternal.setPlayWhenReady(true);        pvMain.setPlayer(absPlayerInternal);    }    private void stopPlayer(PlayerView pv,SimpleExoPlayer absPlayer){        pv.setPlayer(null);        absPlayer.release();        absPlayer = null;    }

simply add the player view in your activity layout, call the startPlayingVideo(...) in onCreate() and stopPlayer() in the onStop() . I am not an expert but i can try explaining this if you want, but you asked for no complicated stuff, so here is just the code

A VideoView would be a better idea in case you wish to display only a Video URL. ExoPlayer requires some developmental effort, even for invoking its simple instance. However, there is an advantage of faster and more efficient playback, backed up by an active open-source community.This link provides a good walk through the implementation giving ample reasons to switch to ExoPlayer. Ofcourse, do checkout the official developer guide, the updated version has split modules for simpler implementation.