media
media copied to clipboard
androidx
Unwanted TV support in manifest, feature or bug?
Since the update to exoplayer-ima version 2.19.1, our Android app unexpectedly activates the Leanback feature. The Leanback feature is defined in the manifest of exoplayer-ima, and unless explicitly removed using node:remove, our app automatically utilizes the Leanback feature.
This behavior is causing our mobile app to be displayed on Android TV devices instead of the dedicated Android TV app version included in our bundle. This is undesirable and not intended.
Is this expected behaviour or is this a bug?
Apparantly it's not exoplayer, its com.google.android.tv:tv-ads which exoplayer depends on.
Re-opening for awareness. Can't find a repo for com.google.android.tv:tv-ads.
Thanks for reporting!
Apparantly it's not exoplayer, its com.google.android.tv:tv-ads which exoplayer depends on.
Can you elaborate how ExoPlayer depends on com.google.android.tv:tv-ads? When I search the project for com.google.android.tv I can not find that we directly depend on it. It may be caused by a transitive dependency, but I can't find an obvious culprit.
Can you give me a nudge where we introduce this dependency?
Ah, I see. This is pulled in by the new IMA SDK. I agree this should not automatically modify the app manifest.
This was reported to the IMA team. This requires to be fixed in the dependency. Once this is fixed we can bump the IMA SDK version.
We've found this issue as well :( Are any solution to fix it without waiting for bump the IMA SDK ?
UPD: We're resolved this by exclude tv-ads dependencies in result builds!