Importing ExoPlayer for Unity

Importing

Unity 2019.2+

1. Create or Open target Unity project

2. Import ExoPlayer for Unity asset package

3. Switch to Android platform
   • File –> Build Settings –> Platform –> Select Android and Switch Platform
4. Enable Custom Main Gradle Template
   • Edit –> Project Settings –> Publishing Settings –> check Custom Main Gradle Template
   • Open Assets/Plugins/Android/mainTemplate.gradle with any text editor
   • Add below line inside dependencies { }

     implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:2.12.2'
     

   • It will be look like this

     dependencies {
      implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
      implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:2.12.2'
     **DEPS**}
     

5. Set Graphics API
   • Edit –> Project Settings –> Other Settings –> Graphics API
   • Remove Vulkan
   • Add OpenGL ES 2.0 or OpenGL ES 3.0
6. Disable Multithreaded Rendering option
   • Edit –> Project Settings –> Other Settings –> uncheck Multithreaded Rendering
7. Set Minimum API Level to API Level 28 or later
   • Edit –> Project Settings –> Other Settings –> Minimum API Level
   • set to API Level 28 or later
8. Enable Internet access to test sample scenes
   • Edit –> Project Settings –> Other Settings –> Internet Access
   • set to Require

Unity 2020.x

1. Follow import instruction for Unity 2019.2+
2. Enable Custom Base Gradle Template
   • Edit –> Project Settings –> Publishing Settings –> check Custom Base Gradle Template
   • Open Assets/Plugins/Android/baseProjectTemplate.gradle with any text editor, and change version of gradle plugin to 3.4.0

     classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.0'
     

Demo Scenes

SampleVideoPlayer

• provides simple video player interface
• play, pause, stop, previous media, next media, rewind, forward

SampleVideoCubes

• provides simple video rendering on texture object

Sample360Video

• shows playing a 360 video on a texture object, which is mapped on a sphere object