Kohii¶

kohii (コーヒー、[ko̞ːçiː])¶

Video playback for Android made easy.

Kohii is a powerful, extensible, yet easy to use and extensible Video playback library. Kohii provides useful features out of the box, including

• Easy to start: just one line to start a Video playback.
• Automatic playback experience on RecyclerView, NestedScrollView, ViewPager2, etc.
• Configuration change handling works out of the box, including the switching from in-list player to fullscreen player and vice versa.
• Feature-rich sample app that covers either simple or advance use cases.
• Extensible, including default implementations that support ExoPlayer, AndroidX Media2, YouTube Player SDK.

Demo¶

Automatic playback	Playback continuity (Seamless fullscreen)

Setup¶

Add to your module's build.gradle dependencies

// Update top level build.gradle
allprojects {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
  }
}

// Add these to app level build.gradle (or to module that will use Kohii)
def kohiiVersion = '1.4.0.2017001'
def exoPlayerVersion = '2.17.1'

implementation "im.ene.kohii:kohii-core:${kohiiVersion}"
implementation "im.ene.kohii:kohii-exoplayer:${kohiiVersion}"
implementation "com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:${exoPlayerVersion}"

Start a playback¶

Assuming that you have a Fragment which contains a RecyclerView, and you want to play a Video using a PlayerView placed inside a ViewHolder of the RecyclerView, below is what you need to do using Kohii:

// Kotlin
// TODO: Have a videoUrl first.
// 1. Initialization in Fragment
val kohii = Kohii[this@Fragment]
kohii.register(this@Fragment).addBucket(this.recyclerView)

// 2. In ViewHolder or Adapter: bind the video to the PlayerView.
kohii.setUp(videoUrl).bind(playerView)

// Java
// TODO: Have a videoUrl first.
// 1. Initialization in Fragment
Kohii kohii = Kohii.get(this);
kohii.register(this).addBucket(this.recyclerView);

// 2. In ViewHolder or Adapter: bind the video to the PlayerView.
kohii.setUp(videoUrl).bind(playerView);

Requirements¶

Kohii works on Android 4.4+ (API level 19+) and on Java 8+. It is recommended to use Kohii using the Kotlin™ language.

The core library doesn't come with any actual playback logic. Actual implementation comes with extension libraries. The extensions require corresponding 3^rd libraries: kohii-exoplayer will require exoplayer, kohii-androidx will require androidx.media2.