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[video][android] Improve audio focus management

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# Why Similar to iOS will pause the video when other app starts playing e.g. spotify. When unmuted playing the video will make other apps stop playing. If the player...

[image][ios] Fix too frequent image reloads

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# Why When the view bounds size changes the entire image is reloaded from memory. This negatively affects performance and memory footprint. fixes https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/24894, https://github.com/software-mansion/react-native-reanimated/issues/5181 # How - Isolated some...

[tracking-transparency][ios] Fix `requestTrackingPermissionsAsync` being resolved before user makes a choice

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# Why On iOS 17.4 `requestTrackingPermissionsAsync` will resolve instantly (even before the modal is shown) with status `denied` due to a [known bug](https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/746432?answerId=784610022#784610022) (in our case it was `undetermined` due...

[docs][sensors] Add note regarding running `watchStepCount` in background

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# Why We should make the limitations of the Pedometer API clearer in the docs ENG-11584

[task-manager][android] Fix the task manager events not being sent to the JS side

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# Why Location updates wouldn't get passed to the JS side. Turns out the TaskManager is still using the old EventEmitter which doesn't work in SDK51 on Android fixes https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/28959...

[video][ios] Add base64 certificate support

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# Why Some of the users requested the feature of passing the certificate as base64 string instead of a server url. # How Added an additional property in the `DRMOptions`...

[video][ios] Fix a conversion error when setting playbackRate

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# Why Fixes https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/29036 Fixes a conversion error, which would be thrown when setting some specific numbers (eq. 0.7 which is actually something like 0.6999999993) as `playbackRate` or `volume`. Conversion...

[video] Make the Picture in Picture support configurable

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# Why We should make it possible to configure if the config plugin should add the `audio` key into `UIBackgroundModes` in `Info.plist`, so that app's which don't use PiP don't...

[video][ios] Fix a race condition causing crashes when deallocating the player

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# Why We were setting the player item to nil during the deallocation on a thread different than main, this caused KVO related race conditions, which lead to crashes. Fixes...

# Why A lot of people are unaware that `expo-video` is unsupported in Expo Go, and Snack and end up reporting issues on discord and GitHub e.g. https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/30006 # How...