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Player Android / AndroidTV Releases

Latest Releases

Stable
5/10/2022
3.18.0

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5/11/2021

2.66.1

Changed

Reopened BitmovinPlayerView to allow for inheritance again. This class will be final starting with 3.0.0, so it is not recommended to directly inherit it if existing workflows don't depend on it.

Fixed

Potential crash when starting playback during a cast session
Potential selection of wrong tracks when downloading HLS content
UI always becoming visible after exiting PiP, ignoring previously set visibility
Progressive content not being downloaded for offline playback

Stable

4/27/2021

2.66.0

Added

TweaksConfiguration.shouldApplyTtmlRegionWorkaround that specifies if default positioning values should be assumed when parsing TTML regions in case of unsupported TTML features
StyleConfiguration.scalingMode for specifying the initial ScalingMode. The default value is ScalingMode.Fit
UserInterfaceAPI.scalingMode for dynamically updating the ScalingMode
ScalingModeChangedEvent, which is emitted from the BitmovinPlayerView to indicate that the ScalingMode of the BitmovinPlayerView changed

Changed

Updated Koin dependency to 2.2.2

Fixed

Crash when seeking very often in a short time
Crash on pre API 24 devices, due to usage of Java 8 API

Stable

4/13/2021

2.65.0

Added

Support for side-loaded SubtitleTracks when casting to a v3 (CAF) receiver

Fixed

Starting a cast session during client-side ad playback causes the local playback to continue side by side with the cast playback
HLS streams including both #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:EVENT and #EXT-X-ENDLIST being incorrectly identified as live instead of VoD streams

Stable

3/30/2021

2.64.0

Added

TweaksConfiguration.shouldEmitAllPendingMetadataOnStreamEnd that specifies if MetadataEvents should be emitted for pending metadata when reaching the end of a stream
Properties sendManifestRequestsWithCredentials, sendSegmentRequestsWithCredentials and sendDrmLicenseRequestsWithCredentials to the RemoteControlConfiguration to control cookies and credentials on requests made on Chromecast CAF (v3) receivers

Changed

Update play-services-cast-framework to 19.0.0

Fixed

Text tracks reported with SUBTYPE_NONE from a CAF receiver are not considered as subtitle tracks

Stable

3/2/2021

2.63.0

Fixed

Local playback starts although cast device is connected when PlaybackConfiguration.isAutoplayEnabled is set to true

Stable

3/10/2021

2.62.1

Added

TweaksConfiguration.useDrmSessionForClearPeriods that specifies whether a DRM session should be used for clear video and audio tracks

Stable

2/16/2021

2.62.0

Added

Image Media Playlist thumbnail support for VOD HLS sources

Fixed

Potentially wrong SCTE-35 start time in metadata events

Stable

2/2/2021

2.61.0

Added

ImpressionEvent to indicate successful impression calls

Fixed

Inconsistent and jumping timeShift values while playing back live-streams

Stable

1/19/2021

2.60.0

Added

TweaksConfiguration.useFiletypeExtractorFallbackForHls for tweaking HLS extractor fallback behaviour
metadata property on the SourceItem that is passed to cast receivers along the source

Fixed

Available video qualities include trick play tracks
Trick play tracks being wrongfully selected by the ABL

Stable

12/22/2020

2.59.0

Changed

PlayEvent, PlayingEvent, PausedEvent and TimeChangedEvent are now also emitted during ad playback

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Stable
5/10/2022
3.18.0

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