Discover how we modernized and optimized the react-native-video-player library, tackling unnecessary rerenders, improving performance, and reducing initial load times. Learn about our approach to maintaining open-source projects and delivering lightweight solutions for React Native apps

Discover why some organizations stick with older react-native-video versions due to legacy code, compliance, or resource constraints. Learn how The Widlarz Group offers tailored maintenance, compatibility adjustments, and migration planning to keep your applications reliable and efficient.

The article examines DRM support in React Native Video, highlighting its role in protecting video content through customizable DRM configurations and advanced licensing mechanisms. It covers essential features like custom license acquisition and header customization for enhanced security across platforms.

In this guide, we'll walk through how to integrate offline video playback in your Expo app using react-native-video and Offline Video SDK. Building on our previous post about setting up react-native-video, we'll now add support for downloading videos so users can watch content even when they're offline. You'll learn how to generate your API key on the SDK platform, install and configure stream-downloader, and connect it with react-native-video. At the end, we'll also share helpful resources, docs, and starter kit to get you going faster.

Want to add video playback to your Expo project? In this guide, we'll walk you through integrating react-native-video with Expo so you can play, pause, and customize videos in your React Native app. We'll cover installation, setup, and common pitfalls when using react-native-video in managed or bare workflow projects. By the end, you'll know how to seamlessly embed video players with fullscreen support, controls, and performance optimizations inside your Expo app.

Imagine the audio session as an application's nervous system, managing everything related to sound: the microphone, speakers, priorities, and formats. In a simple app that plays music, this system has an easy job.

We realized that to regain stability, we had to create a single, central place that would be the sole "source of truth" for all audio operations. Our solution was to build a custom Expo Module that, under the hood, used Apple's native AVFoundation framework.

Synchronizing advanced audio and video features in mobile applications is one of the biggest challenges, especially in a cross-platform environment like React Native. Developers often rely on an ecosystem of off-the-shelf libraries, but what happens when these tools create more problems than they solve?

Discover why HLS is the only professional choice for offline video playback. Learn how our Offline Video SDK enables secure DRM, track selection, and download management.

Integrate offline video into your React Native app with our Offline Video SDK. Support HLS, DASH, DRM, and MP4 across iOS and Android with one API. Already powering Learnn, the leading e-learning app in Italy.

Offline video access is transforming e-learning, fitness, and travel apps. Discover how our Offline Video SDK enables seamless downloads, DRM-secure playback, and higher engagement even without internet.

Discover why offline video access is essential for e-learning platforms. Learn how the Offline Video SDK helps students study anywhere by enabling seamless offline video downloads (HLS, DASH, DRM, MP4).

Treefort’s ebook provides a comprehensive guide to building a scalable audiobook application using React Native, covering its journey from a proof of concept to a fully operational platform. It addresses critical challenges like background audio, multi-track playback, and custom player controls for both Android and iOS. By examining key decisions, limitations of popular open-source libraries, and the setup required for complex audio handling, the ebook offers actionable insights for developers creating robust commercial audio applications.

Learn how to tackle the current challenges of speech recognition technology in React Native. This article demonstrates how TheWidlarzGroup provides professional, customized solutions that elevate voice applications to the next level. Discover how to enhance your app's performance with advanced speech recognition features.

Learn how to build a video streaming app for Fire TV using the react-native-video library. This step-by-step guide will take you through the basics of using react-native-video to boost your Fire TV app development, making sure your app stands out in the Amazon ecosystem

Explore the latest updates with the stable release of react-native-video 6.0.0. This comprehensive overview covers key new features, platform-specific improvements, and essential bug fixes. We'll also compare react-native-video with other popular video libraries like expo-av and expo-video, highlighting what makes this release a game-changer for mobile video playback.

Explore how to monetize video content in mobile apps using Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) SDK with React Native Video. This guide provides instructions for integrating ads on both Android and iOS platforms

If you are making ReactNative apps with videos, react-native-video is more than just a library for simple video playback. It’s a comprehensive toolkit that empowers you to create immersive, secure, and interactive video experiences. Check out this article to explore the advanced features supported by React Native Video.

Uncover the silent killer of software development in our latest article. Learn how unchecked technical debt can slow progress, strain teams, and jeopardize your product's future. Discover actionable strategies to turn this hidden challenge into a stepping stone for success.

Explore step-by-step guidance on integrating video backgrounds into your React Native applications using the react-native-video library. This article provides practical tips and code examples to enhance your app's UI with dynamic video elements, suitable for both beginners and experienced developers in React Native.

React-native-charts-svg - you need nothing more to display data in your application. This article will help you understand how to create different types of charts, and personalize them. Tutorial step by step!

Want to build your own cookie based authentication system in NextJS with SSR? In this article we will cover how to do it using access token + refresh token from our external backend!

React Table 7 - hooks based library to create beautiful, custom tables in React. Build a fully-fledged table step by step with us, implement the most common features like sorting, filtering, pagination and more. Learn how v7 is different from v6.

React Native, XState, Formik and Yup - handling a multistep form with these tools seems really interesting and fun. If you are wondering how one can utilize them in their own mobile app, give it a read!

Lately, the OLX (popular shopping app/service in Poland), updated its mobile app. First app open showed every user this simple, cool animation. See it being recreated with Reanimated library in React Native!

A short guide on how to setup the app orientation depending on the device type - for both Android and iOS.

Reanimated 2 - exploring the new API to creating animations in React Native. Find out the new hooks, build custom useSlider hook, and get an understanding of animation techniques in this step by step guide.

When I switched from Webstorm to VS Code, I wanted to make it as similar as possible. During the time, I noticed that doesn't make sense. VS Code has a much more robust workflow, it just needs a few changes, about which you will read in this article.

Whether you heard about an app called Quibi or not, it definitely has this cool animated card list. In this article we will try to recreate it with React Native and Reanimated library!

Shopping list with draggable UI elements and mocked backend with Mirage JS. React Query to sync UI with the backend.

I'll show you my way of handling React Native app navigation and we'll build application with custom animated bottom navigation tab.

It'll guide you through the process of creating a color picker animation using React Native Reanimated v2 hooks: useSharedValue, useAnimatedGestureHandler, useAnimatedStyle.

Modals to the rescue for boring products! In this article I will show you how to create awesome, cool looking and functional modals in react-native with one of the most popular library, which is react-native-modal!

In this article you will learn how to save your time. Try out this Fastlane setup for both Android and iOS!

Let's make it obvious - even simple animations can take your app to a whole new level. The problem is not whether it is worth adding animations but how to make them. Reanimated 2 is a great and really useful library. Let me show you also how simple it can be!

Have you ever wondered what is the best way to handle errors in Your app? RN Notificated seems to be an answer for Your doubts. Fully customized, fast, and most importantly easy to use!

Explore 24 tools that every React Native developer needs in 2024!

Exploring the intersection of React Native Video and VisionOS, this article offers a detailed roadmap for developers looking to harness the power of React Native for video viewing and manipulation in the VisionOS environment.

Do you want to dive deep into the topic of Deep Links, Universal Links and App Links? Wait no more and take a read!