Playback

These samples show how to play Brightcove Video Cloud content with the Brightcove Player SDK — from the minimal setup up through live, 360, audio-only, Picture-in-Picture, and thumbnail scrubbing, plus a few Android-specific playback samples.

Requirements

• Platform: Android phone and tablet (Picture-in-Picture is phone/tablet only).
• Minimum OS: Android 5.0 (API 21). Picture-in-Picture requires Android 8.0 (API 26).
• Toolchain: Android Studio, JDK 17, Gradle 8.13.
• Extra SDKs: none for most samples. Audio-only adds the playback-notification plugin and thumbnail scrubbing adds the thumbnail plugin; both are wired automatically by the build.

Setup

Most samples play from the shared Brightcove demo account (5420904993001); the 360 video and audio-only samples use their own demo accounts. The live sample ships with a placeholder URL — live streams are ephemeral, so supply your own Live/DVR HLS URL and publisher id in the source before running it.

Samples

Sample	Languages	What it demonstrates
BasicSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	Minimal playback — a BrightcoveExoPlayerVideoView playing a catalog video.
VideoListSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	Multiple player instances in a scrolling RecyclerView (video list / playlist).
LiveSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	HLS Live and Live DVR playback. Requires a developer-supplied Live/DVR URL.
360VideoSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	360° video with touch and gyroscope navigation.
AudioOnlySampleApp	Java · Kotlin	Audio-only assets with a background playback notification.
PictureInPictureSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	Picture-in-Picture mode (Android 8.0+, phone/tablet).
ThumbnailScrubberSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	Thumbnail previews while scrubbing the seek bar.
TextureViewSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	Rendering into a TextureView instead of the default SurfaceView. Android-specific.
AppCompatSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	The AppCompat plugin, shown through both an Activity and a Fragment entry point. Android-specific.
BumperSampleApp	Java · Kotlin	Playing a bumper video ahead of the main content. Android-specific.