Does not work on react 0.55.x also with the latest RNFS

[JaydeeSale]

doesnt work on the latest version of react,overrides a missing method, also the example app your using doesnt support the latest RNFS, signatures have changed.

can you provide a more up to date example

[mirceaciu]

I was able to build this for Android, had to do a few of changes after installing:

In settings.gradle in root of your android project

include ':react-native-media-player'
project(':react-native-media-player').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-media-player/android')

In build.gradle extend dependencies with

    dependencies {
       implementation project(':react-native-fs')
       implementation project(':react-native-media-player')
       ...
   }

replace contents of RNMediaPlayerPackage.java with newer format

package com.mybigday.rnmediaplayer;

import java.util.*;

import com.facebook.react.ReactPackage;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.NativeModule;
import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReactApplicationContext;
import com.facebook.react.uimanager.ViewManager;


public class RNMediaPlayerPackage implements ReactPackage {
  @Override
  public List<ViewManager> createViewManagers(ReactApplicationContext reactContext) {
    return Collections.emptyList();
  }

  @Override
  public List<NativeModule> createNativeModules(
          ReactApplicationContext reactContext) {
    List<NativeModule> modules = new ArrayList<>();

    modules.add(new RNMediaPlayer(reactContext));

    return modules;
  }
}

Sync, clean, build and test. I wasn't able to play a video tho. It looks like this player expects local files so if you want to play some video from a server first download using RNFS then play the local file. Whenever a file is passed to the MediaPlayer my app would crash

    let containerId = await MediaPlayer.pushVideo(`${RNFS.ExternalDirectoryPath}/${"f12b2c5365ac460099b8df241886bbbd.mp4"}`, MediaPlayer.PUSH_WAY.ClearOther);

resulting in this exception in Logcat

    java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: TextureView doesn't support displaying a background drawable
        at android.view.TextureView.setBackgroundDrawable(TextureView.java:326)
        at android.view.View.setBackground(View.java:22721)
        at android.view.View.setBackgroundColor(View.java:22683)
        at com.mybigday.rnmediaplayer.VideoContainer.<init>(VideoContainer.java:19)
        at com.mybigday.rnmediaplayer.Root.finalRendIn(Root.java:31)
        at com.mybigday.rnmediaplayer.Root.rendIn(Root.java:55)
        at com.mybigday.rnmediaplayer.RNMediaPlayer$7.run(RNMediaPlayer.java:143)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:883)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:100)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:214)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7356)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:492)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:930)

This above points to some changes in Android itself were newer API break this old player's functionality. To fix this we need to go deep into the JAVA real ..