v8.7.0

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on iOS where the dynamic island (iphone 14 plus and higher) briefly disappeared when updating the nowPlayingInfo on for example backgrounding the app.
• Fixed an issue on Android when using Expo, where the Expo plugin would not add THEOplayer's Maven repo to the project's repositories list.

Added

• Added the Omid API for ads, which can be used to manage friendly video controls overlay obstructions.

v8.6.0

Added

• Added AdEvent.AD_CLICKED and AdEvent.AD_TAPPED ad events for iOS and Android. The events are dispatched when a user taps or clicks on an ad that has a clickThrough link.

Changed

• Upgrade example app to support React Native v0.75.

v8.5.0

Added

• Added SdkVersion interface to be used by the sdk and its connectors to report version info.
• Added the THEOads SGAI ad integration for Android. See THEOads for more details.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on Web where all text tracks other than the selected would be set to disabled when enabling a text track.
• Fixed an issue on iOS where the player would crash when changing the presentationMode from fullscreen to picture-in-picture during ad playout.

Changed

• On iOS, after closing picture-in-picture the player returns back to the previous presentationMode instead of always returning to inline.

v8.4.0

Added

• Added a posterStyle property on THEOplayerView to allow overriding the default 16:9 poster style.

Fixed

• Added support for a breaking change to ContentProtectionIntegrationFactory's signature in THEOplayer Android 8.2.0.

v8.3.1

Fixed

• Fixed an issue on Android where on some Android SDK versions controlling playback with the notification buttons would not work.
• Fixed an issue on Web and Android where a text track with attribute DEFAULT was not set as the player's selectedTextTrack property.

v8.3.0

Added

• Added the option to specify the AVAudioSession mode for iOS (moviePlayback versus spokenAudio).

v8.2.2

• Fixed a build issue on iOS for applications that run without the GOOGLE_IMA feature flag

v8.2.1

Fixed

• Fixed a build issue on Android when pinning a specific Android player SDK version, while also disabling the Google IMA extension.

v8.2.0

Added

• Added the PlaybackSettings API for Android, allowing control of playback behaviour across all THEOplayer instances.

v8.1.0

Added

• Added support for bitrate config on the GoogleIMAConfiguration, to be passed to the IMA SDK rendering settings.
• Added support on iOS and Android for allowedMimeTypes config on the AdsConfiguration, to be passed to the IMA SDK rendering settings.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where cast events were not forwarded from the native Android SDK.
• Fixed an issue where presentationMode changes on iOS would cause a UIViewControllerHierarchyInconsistency when an ad is playing.
• Fixed an issue where some ad event types could not be resolved at runtime when excluding the IMA integration on Android.