@vino4all/react-native-video-cache

Forked from https://github.com/zhigang1992/react-native-video-cache

Boost performance on online video loading and caching

Use following libraries to do the heavy lifting.

• iOS: https://github.com/ChangbaDevs/KTVHTTPCache
• Android: https://github.com/danikula/AndroidVideoCache

Getting started

$ yarn add @vino4all/react-native-video-cache

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link @vino4all/react-native-video-cache

Usage

import convertToProxyURL from '@vino4all/react-native-video-cache';
...
<Video source={{uri: convertToProxyURL(originalURL)}} />

Set Options (Android Only)

Add this java file to the main application <project-root>/android/src/main/java/<package>/MyFileNameGenerator.java

package com.videocacheproject;

import android.net.Uri;
import com.danikula.videocache.file.FileNameGenerator;

  public class MyFileNameGenerator implements FileNameGenerator {

    // Url may contain mutable parts (parameter 'sessionToken') and stable video's id (parameter 'videoId').
    // e. g. http://example.com/videos/123?videoId=abcqaz&sessionToken=xyz987
    public String generate(String url) {

        Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);
        String[] segments = uri.getPath().split("/");
        String pathName = segments[segments.length-1];  // 123

        String videoId = uri.getQueryParameter("videoId");  // abcqaz
        return pathName+"_"+videoId + ".mp4";   // Add your own implementation
    }
}

import convertToProxyURL, {setConfig} from '@vino4all/react-native-video-cache';
...

const maxCacheSize = 1024 * 1024 * 1024; // 1GB
const fileNameGeneratorClassName =
    'com.videocacheproject.MyFileNameGenerator';
  const backgroundStyle = {
    backgroundColor: isDarkMode ? Colors.darker : Colors.lighter,
  };

  setConfig({fileNameGeneratorClassName, maxCacheSize});

...
<Video source={{uri: convertToProxyURL(originalURL)}} />

Gradle dependency

Add this dependency to the dependencies section of app/build.gradle file.

implementation 'com.danikula:videocache:2.7.1'

Check https://github.com/danikula/AndroidVideoCache for the latest version