Playing UDP, RTP stream using Exoplayer2

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Hello, this is a simple and minimal code example to play UDP, RTP stream videos using ExoPlayer 2.

Please find useful resources regarding Network streaming and Exoplayer 2 at the end of the article.

Step 1:

Add INTERNET permission in the manifest file.

<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET” />

Step 2:

Add exoplayer 2 dependencies in your app’s build.gradle file.

implementation ‘com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:2.10.0’

Note: use the latest exoplayer version when using the example.

Step 3:

Create a simple playerview in your layout file.

<com.google.android.exoplayer2.ui.PlayerView
android:id=”@+id/player_view”
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:layout_height=”wrap_content” />

Step 4:

Add the following code to initialize defaults and play the UDP stream.

Useful resources:

1. UDP (Wikipedia)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol

2. What is UDP — https://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/UDP-User-Datagram-Protocol

3. Exoplayer 2 — https://exoplayer.dev/hello-world.html

4. Exoplayer 2 (Github) — https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer

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Please check out the complete project on GitHub

Thanks.