Guide on Downloading Videos Locally with Exoplayer Media3 in React Native’s Latest Android Architecture

ExoPlayer is a popular open-source media player library developed by Google that allows you to play videos in your React Native application. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use ExoPlayer’s Media3 library to download a video locally in React Native’s new architecture for Android.

Step 1: Set up your React Native environment

Before you can start using ExoPlayer Media3 in your React Native project, you need to set up your React Native environment. You can follow the official React Native documentation to set up your development environment.

Step 2: Install the necessary dependencies

To use ExoPlayer Media3 in your React Native project, you need to install the following dependencies:

npm install @react-native-community/createmediacontroller
npm install @react-native-community/exoplayer
npm install @react-native-community/toolbar
npm install @react-native-community/video

Step 3: Set up ExoPlayer Media3 in your Android project

To use ExoPlayer Media3 in your React Native project, you need to set up ExoPlayer Media3 in your Android project. You can follow the official ExoPlayer documentation to set up ExoPlayer Media3 in your Android project.

Step 4: Create a new component for downloading the video

Next, you need to create a new component in your React Native project for downloading the video. You can create a new component called VideoDownloader.js and add the following code:

import React from 'react';
import { Alert, Button, Text, View } from 'react-native';
import { openMediaController } from '@react-native-community/createmediacontroller';

const VideoDownloader = () => {
  const handleDownloadVideo = async () => {
    try {
      const mediaController = await openMediaController('https://example.com/video.mp4');
      const downloadResult = await mediaController.download();
      if (downloadResult) {
        Alert.alert('Success', 'Video downloaded successfully!');
      } else {
        Alert.alert('Error', 'Failed to download video');
      }
    } catch (error) {
      Alert.alert('Error', 'An error occurred while downloading the video');
    }
  };

  return (
    <View>
      <Text>This is a video downloader component</Text>
      <Button title="Download Video" onPress={handleDownloadVideo} />
    </View>
  );
};

export default VideoDownloader;

Step 5: Add the VideoDownloader component to your App

Finally, you need to add the VideoDownloader component to your App.js file to see the downloading functionality in action. You can add the following code to your App.js file:

import React from 'react';
import VideoDownloader from './VideoDownloader';

const App = () => {
  return <VideoDownloader />;
};

export default App;

Now you should be able to see a button in your React Native application that allows you to download a video locally using ExoPlayer Media3.

In this tutorial, we showed you how to use ExoPlayer Media3 to download a video locally in React Native’s new architecture for Android. ExoPlayer Media3 is a powerful library that allows you to play and download videos in your React Native application with ease. By following the steps outlined in this tutorial, you can easily integrate ExoPlayer Media3 into your React Native project and provide a seamless video downloading experience for your users.