@chaimpan/react-native-jwplayer v0.1.2

react-native-jwplayer

Getting started

npm install https://github.com/chaimPaneth/react-native-jwplayer.git --save or $ yarn add https://github.com/chaimPaneth/react-native-jwplayer.git

Mostly automatic installation

Link module with

$ react-native link react-native-jwplayer

Then add SDK dependencies:

Add dependencies

iOS dependencies

Follow official instruction sdk ios installation for installation via Cocoapods (only supported, other way wasn't tested).

Add pod 'JWPlayer-SDK', '~> 3.5.0' to your Podfile. Then run pod install from your ios directory.

In your info.plist properties file, create an string entry named JWPlayerKey, and set its value to be your JW Player Beta license key. Make sure you enter this string exactly as you received it from JW Player, or as it appears in your JW Player Dashboard. The string is case-sensitive.

Android dependencies

Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

    implementation 'com.longtailvideo.jwplayer:jwplayer-core:+'
    implementation 'com.longtailvideo.jwplayer:jwplayer-common:+'

Add to AndroidManifest.xml in the Application tag above the Activity tag:

<meta-data
           android:name="JW_LICENSE_KEY"
           android:value="<API_KEY_FOUND_IN_JW_DASHBOARD>" />

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-jwplayer and add RNJWPlayer.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNJWPlayer.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Add dependencies
5. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java

• Add import net.gamesofton.rnjwplayer.RNJWPlayerPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNJWPlayerPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-jwplayer'
   project(':react-native-jwplayer').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-jwplayer/android')

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     implementation project(':react-native-jwplayer')

4. Add dependencies

Usage

...

import JWPlayer from 'react-native-jwplayer';

...

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
  },
  player: {
    flex: 1,
  },
});

...

componentDidMount() {
  const playlistItem = {
    title: 'Track',
    mediaId: -1,
    image: 'http://image.com/image.png',
    desc: 'My beautiful track',
    time: 0,
    file: 'http://file.com/file.mp3',
    autostart: true,
    controls: true,
    repeat: false,
    displayDescription: true,
    displayTitle: true
  }
  this.JWPlayer.loadPlaylistItem(playlistItem);

  // for playlist
  // const playlist = [playlistItem, playlistItem]
  // this.JWPlayer.loadPlaylist(playlistItem);
}

...

render() {

...

<View style={styles.container}>
  <JWPlayer
    ref={p => (this.JWPlayer = p)}
    style={styles.player}
    onBeforePlay={() => this.onBeforePlay()}
    onPlay={() => this.onPlay()}
    onPause={() => this.onPause()}
    onIdle={() => console.log("onIdle")}
    onPlaylistItem={event => this.onPlaylistItem(event)}
    onSetupPlayerError={event => this.onPlayerError(event)}
    onPlayerError={event => this.onPlayerError(event)}
    onBuffer={() => this.onBuffer()}
    onTime={event => this.onTime(event)}
    onFullScreen={() => this.onFullScreen()}
    onFullScreenExit={() => this.onFullScreenExit()}
  />
</View>

...

}

Run example project

For running example project:

1. Checkout this repository.
2. Go to Example directory and run yarn or npm i
3. Go to Example/ios and install Pods with pod install
4. Open demoJWPlayer.xcworkspace with XCode.
5. Add your iOS api key for JWPlayer into Info.plist

PlaylistItem

Available props

Available methods

Available callbacks

Custom-style

For setting a custom style on the player:

1. Check out the JW player guide for adding a custom css file on your player.

2. Put your custom css file in the root folder of your native files.

3. Add the prop playerStyle to the player and set to the name of your css file without the .css file type e.g. playerStyle={'myCssFile'}.

4. build & run.