import * as React from 'react';
import { View, StyleSheet, Button } from 'react-native';
import { Video, ResizeMode } from 'expo-av';
export default function App() {
const video = React.useRef(null);
const [status, setStatus] = React.useState({});
return (
<View style={styles.container}>
<Video
ref={video}
style={styles.video}
source={{
uri: 'https://d23dyxeqlo5psv.cloudfront.net/big_buck_bunny.mp4',
useNativeControls
resizeMode={ResizeMode.CONTAIN}
isLooping
onPlaybackStatusUpdate={status => setStatus(() => status)}
<View style={styles.buttons}>
<Button
title={status.isPlaying ? 'Pause' : 'Play'}
onPress={() =>
status.isPlaying ? video.current.pauseAsync() : video.current.playAsync()
</View>
</View>
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
container: {
flex: 1,
justifyContent: 'center',
backgroundColor: '#ecf0f1',
video: {
alignSelf: 'center',
width: 320,
height: 200,
buttons: {
flexDirection: 'row',
justifyContent: 'center',
alignItems: 'center',
});
For more advanced examples, check out the Playlist example, and the custom VideoPlayer controls component that wraps <Video>, adds custom controls and use the <Video> API extensively. The VideoPlayer controls is used in this app.
import { Video } from 'expo-av';
Type: React.Component<VideoProps, VideoState>
Optional • Type: React.ComponentType<{
source: ImageProps['source'],
style: ImageProps['style']
}>
A react-native Image like component to display the poster image.
Optional • Type: number
The desired audio panning value of the audio for this media. This value must be between -1.0 (full left) and 1.0 (full right).
See the AV documentation for more information.
Optional • Type: boolean
A boolean describing if the media should play once (false) or loop indefinitely (true).
See the AV documentation for more information.
Optional • Type: boolean
A boolean describing if the audio of this media should be muted.
See the AV documentation for more information.
Optional • Type: (error: string) => void
A function to be called if load or playback have encountered a fatal error. The function is passed a single error message string as a parameter.
Errors sent here are also set on playbackStatus.error that are passed into the onPlaybackStatusUpdate callback.
Optional • Type: (event: VideoFullscreenUpdateEvent) => void
A function to be called when the state of the native iOS fullscreen view changes (controlled via the presentFullscreenPlayer()
and dismissFullscreenPlayer() methods on the Video's ref).
Optional • Type: (status: AVPlaybackStatus) => void
A function to be called once the video has been loaded. The data is streamed so all of it may not have been fetched yet, just enough to render the first frame.
The function is called with the AVPlaybackStatus of the video as its parameter. See the AV documentation for further information.
Optional • Type: () => void
A function to be called when the video begins to be loaded into memory. Called without any arguments.
Optional • Type: (status: AVPlaybackStatus) => void
A function to be called regularly with the AVPlaybackStatus of the video. You will likely be using this a lot.
See the AV documentation for further information on onPlaybackStatusUpdate, and the interval at which it is called.
Optional • Type: (event: VideoReadyForDisplayEvent) => void
A function to be called when the video is ready for display. Note that this function gets called whenever the video's natural size changes.
Optional • Type: number
The desired position of playback in milliseconds.
See the AV documentation for more information.
Optional • Type: ImageProps['source']
The source of an optional image to display over the video while it is loading. The following forms are supported:
A dictionary of the form { uri: 'http://path/to/file' } with a network URL pointing to an image file on the web.
require('path/to/file') for an image file asset in the source code directory.
Optional • Type: ImageProps['style']
An optional property to pass custom styles to the poster image.
Optional • Type: number
A number describing the new minimum interval in milliseconds between calls of onPlaybackStatusUpdate.
See the AV documentation for more information.
Optional • Type: number
The desired playback rate of the media. This value must be between 0.0 and 32.0. Only available on Android API version 23 and later and iOS.
See the AV documentation for more information.
Optional • Type: ResizeMode
A string describing how the video should be scaled for display in the component view bounds.
Must be one of the ResizeMode enum values.
Optional • Type: boolean
A boolean describing if we should correct the pitch for a changed rate. If set to true, the pitch of the audio will be corrected
(so a rate different than 1.0 will timestretch the audio).
See the AV documentation for more information.
Optional • Type: boolean
A boolean describing if the media is supposed to play. Playback may not start immediately after setting this value for reasons such as buffering.
Make sure to update your UI based on the isPlaying and isBuffering properties of the AVPlaybackStatus.
See the AV documentation for more information.
Optional • Type: AVPlaybackSource
The source of the video data to display. If this prop is null, or left blank, the video component will display nothing.
Note that this can also be set on the ref via loadAsync(). See the AV documentation for further information.
Optional • Type: boolean
A boolean which, if set to true, will display native playback controls (such as play and pause) within the Video component.
If you'd prefer to use custom controls, you can write them yourself, and/or check out the VideoPlayer component.
Optional • Type: boolean
A boolean which, if set to true, will display an image (whose source is set via the prop posterSource) while the video is loading.
Optional • Type: StyleProp<ViewStyle>
An optional property to pass custom styles to the internal video component.
Optional • Type: number
The desired volume of the audio for this media. This value must be between 0.0 (silence) and 1.0 (maximum volume).
See the AV documentation for more information.
This dismisses the fullscreen video view.
Returns
A Promise that is fulfilled with the AVPlaybackStatus of the video once the fullscreen player has finished dismissing,
or rejects if there was an error, or if this was called on an Android device.
This presents a fullscreen view of your video component on top of your app's UI. Note that even if useNativeControls is set to false,
native controls will be visible in fullscreen mode.
Returns
A Promise that is fulfilled with the AVPlaybackStatus of the video once the fullscreen player has finished presenting,
or rejects if there was an error, or if this was called on an Android device.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|
| onPlaybackStatusUpdate | null | (status: AVPlaybackStatus) => void | A function taking a single parameter AVPlaybackStatus. |
Sets a function to be called regularly with the AVPlaybackStatus of the playback object.
onPlaybackStatusUpdate will be called whenever a call to the API for this playback object completes
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