* Revert PR to inherit Android SDK versions from root project. Re-add in 3.0 [#1080](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1080)
### Version 2.3.0
* Support allowsExternalPlayback on iOS [#1057](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/1057)
* Inherit Android buildtools and SDK version from the root project [#999](https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/pull/999)
Expansions files allow you to ship assets that exceed the 100MB apk size limit and don't need to be updated each time you push an app update.
This only supports mp4 files and they must not be compressed. Example command line for preventing compression:
```bash
zip -r-n .mp4 *.mp4 player.video.example.com
```
This will look for an .mp4 file (background.mp4) in the given expansion version.
```javascript
// Within your render function, assuming you have a file called
// "background.mp4" in your expansion file. Just add your main and (if applicable) patch version
<Videosource={{uri:"background",mainVer:1,patchVer:0}}// Looks for .mp4 file (background.mp4) in the given expansion version.
resizeMode="cover"// Fill the whole screen at aspect ratio.
style={styles.backgroundVideo}/>
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@@ -598,9 +647,49 @@ To enable audio to play in background on iOS the audio session needs to be set t
- [Lumpen Radio](https://github.com/jhabdas/lumpen-radio) contains another example integration using local files and full screen background video.
## Updating
### Version 3.0
#### All platforms now auto-play
Previously, on Android ExoPlayer if the paused prop was not set, the media would not automatically start playing. The only way it would work was if you set `paused={false}`. This has been changed to automatically play if paused is not set so that the behavior is consistent across platforms.
#### All platforms now keep their paused state when returning from the background
Previously, on Android MediaPlayer if you setup an AppState event when the app went into the background and set a paused prop so that when you returned to the app the video would be paused it would be ignored.
Note, Windows does not have a concept of an app going into the background, so this doesn't apply there.
#### Use Android SDK 27 by default
Version 3.0 updates the Android build tools and SDK to version 27. React Native is in the process of [switchting over](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/18095#issuecomment-395596130) to SDK 27 in preparation for Google's requirement that new Android apps [use SDK 26](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/12/improving-app-security-and-performance.html) by August 2018.
You will either need to install the version 27 SDK and version 27.0.3 buildtools or modify your build.gradle file to configure react-native-video to use the same build settings as the rest of your app as described below.
##### Using app build settings
You will need to create a `project.ext` section in the top-level build.gradle file (not app/build.gradle). Fill in the values from the example below using the values found in your app/build.gradle file.
```
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
... // Various other settings go here
}
allprojects {
... // Various other settings go here
project.ext {
compileSdkVersion = 23
buildToolsVersion = "23.0.1"
minSdkVersion = 16
targetSdkVersion = 22
}
}
```
If you encounter an error `Could not find com.android.support:support-annotations:27.0.0.` reinstall your Android Support Repository.
## TODOS
- [ ] Add support for captions
- [ ] Add support for playing multiple videos in a sequence (will interfere with current `repeat` implementation)
- [x] Callback to get buffering progress for remote videos
- [ ] Bring API closer to HTML5 `<Video>` [reference](http://devdocs.io/html/element/video)