Customize ExoPlayer Overlay to look like Youtube Player
Creating custom UI elements for ExoPlayer
If you haven’t checked out my first part on ExoPlayer like What is ExoPlayer, Why do we need it and ExoPlayer basic integration please checkout Android ExoPlayer: Play Videos in Your App Like YouTube for better understanding while further reading. Else if you have a basic idea regarding ExoPlayer you can skip that and proceed.
Introduction
ExoPlayer is the video player running in the Android YouTube app, Netflix, Hotstar, Amazon Prime, etc. For the reasons like it is an open-source project which is maintained by Google that has its perks and it’s totally free most player apps in Android use this ExoPlayer. Also, the other reason is that customizing the default MediaPlayer is very difficult to manage and doesn’t support many formats for flexible use. In my previous article, we discussed the importance and basic usage of ExoPlayer. In this post, we will focus on how to customize the UI of an ExoPlayer as per our requirement. By the end of this article, we should get a similar UI of the Youtube app.
If you are a code enthusiast and don’t want the theory please check out the code directly at exoplayer_android_sample. The code is on the branch feature/customizing_ui_youtube
