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SDK: Android
3 years ago

Android: 4.0.0

General Changes

  • JWPlayerView has been decoupled from the JWPlayer API, which enables your layouts to inflate quickly and provide a responsive user experience on screens that have a JWPlayerView. 
  • JW Android SDK 4.0 uses fully native controls, which simplified control customization by using ViewModels. 
  • Updated Java package root to be com.jwplayer. 
  • Added support for Picture-in-Picture, Related feeds, and JW Recommendations. 
  • Thumbnail preview is shown as the user seeks across the content if a thumbnail track is specified for a PlaylistItem 
  • Improved accessibility support for screen readers. 
  • Added helper classes to better support Background Audio. 
  • Minimum OS is set to API 21. 

User Interface

  • Created new menu system for new design and updated seek bar thumbnail style, Casting menu, error code screen, Next Up card, and Live interface. 

Ads

  • JW Android SDK 4.0 supports IMA, IMA DAI, and JWP VAST. 
  • Added support for background loading of the next playlist item and VAST ads. 
  • Added ads cue points for IMA. 
  • Added feature to make IMA ad request before the ad break. 
  • Added AdErrorEvent and AdImpressionEvent to help the customers to track ad related events. 

API Updates

  • Created a JWPlayerCompat class that contains all of the addOnXListener() and removeOnXListener() methods. 
  • Added CaptionsListEven, ErrorEvent, and SetupErrorEvent to help the customers to track the list of captions and all error related events. 
  • Renamed AdSource to AdClient. 
  • Renamed ImaAdvertising to ImaAdvertisingConfig. 
  • Renamed ImaDaiAdvertising to ImaDaiAdvertisingConfig. 
  • Renamed ImaVMAPAdvertising to ImaVmapAdvertisingConfig. 
  • Renamed VMAPAdvertising to VmapAdvertisingConfig. 

Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where TalkBack would not read the controlbar contents correctly. 
  • Fixed an issue where the player does not maintain the selected resolution when replaying a video. 

Deprecated features

  • VPAID and FreeWheel support. 
  • CSS support. 
  • Caption Styling Configuration.