react-native-video-controls

Controls for the React Native <Video> component at react-native-video. For support with RN 0.45 or lower use version 1.3.1 or lower.

Features

This package contains a simple set of GUI controls that work with the react-native-video <Video> component. This includes a back button, volume bar, fullscreen toggle, play/pause toggle, seekbar, title, error handling and timer toggle that can switch between time remaining and current time when tapped.

How it looks

By default the <VideoPlayer> accepts a navigator property from React's built-in <Navigator> which pops the current scene off the stack when tapped. Alternatively you can provide your own onBack prop to the component to override this functionality. You should also provide your own onEnd prop to the component so it knows what to do when a video ends playback.

By default, tapping the screen anywhere will show the player controls. After 10s the controls disappear. Double tapping will toggle fullscreen.

Installation

Run npm install --save react-native-video react-native-video-controls

Then run react-native link react-native-video

If you're using RN < 39 run npm install --save react-native-video-controls@1.0.1. Note this version includes react-native-video as a normal dependency instead of a peer-dependency.

Usage

The <VideoPlayer> component follows the API of the <Video> component at react-native-video. It also takes a number of additional props which are outlined in the API section.

For basic operation the <VideoPlayer> component requires a video source and a navigator property. The default back button functionality in the component relies on using the built-in <Navigator> functionality in React Native and pops the current scene off the stack. This can be overridden if desired, see the API for more details.

// At the top where our imports are...
import VideoPlayer from 'react-native-video-controls';
 
// in the component's render() function
<VideoPlayer
    source={{ uri: 'https://vjs.zencdn.net/v/oceans.mp4' }}
    navigator={ this.props.navigator }
/>

To play a local file, use require syntax like so:

<VideoPlayer source={ require('path/to/file') } />

API

The <VideoPlayer> component can take a number of inputs to customize it as needed. They are outlined below:

Props

You can pass any of the props that the <Video /> component at react-native-video takes. Simply add them onto the <VideoPlayer /> and it will pass them through to the <Video /> component.

In addition, the <VideoPlayer /> also takes these props:

Prop	Type	Default	Description
toggleResizeModeOnFullscreen	Boolean	true	If true, clicking the fullscreen button will toggle the `<Video />` component between cover/contain, set to false if you want to customize fullscreen behaviour
controlTimeout	Integer	15000	Hide controls after X amount of time in milliseconds
showOnStart	Boolean	true	Show or hide the controls on first render
videoStyle	StyleSheet	null	React Native StyleSheet object that is appended to the `<Video>` component
navigator	Navigator	null	When using the default React Native navigator and do not override the `onBack` function, you'll need to pass the navigator to the VideoPlayer for it to function
seekColor	String(#HEX)	'#FFF'	Fill/handle colour of the seekbar
style	StyleSheet	null	React Native StyleSheet object that is appended to the video's parent `<View>`

Events

These are various events that you can hook into and fire functions on in the component:

Callback	Description
onEnterFullscreen	Fired when the video enters fullscreen after the fullscreen button is pressed
onExitFullscreen	Fired when the video exits fullscreen after the fullscreen button is pressed
onError	Fired when an error is encountered when loading the video
onPause	Fired when the video is paused after the play/pause button is pressed
onPlay	Fired when the video begins playing after the play/pause button is pressed
onBack	Function fired when back button is pressed, override if using custom navigation
onEnd	Fired when the video is complete

Controls

These are the various controls that you can turn on/off as needed. All of these props default to false, override them to disable any controls

Control	Description
disableFullscreen	Hide the fullscreen button
disablePlayPause	Hide the play/pause toggle
disableSeekbar	Hide the seekbar
disableVolume	Hide the Volume control
disableTimer	Hide the timer
disableBack	Hide the back button