Our Experience Implementing Video Players

Imagine yourself a developer looking to build a responsive and modern mobile app that heavily features videos. You know that your users will, at any moment, want to click Play, or while watching a video click Pause or FF or RW. Your app needs to anticipate these events and have code ready to respond appropriately.

But that’s not all your app has to deal with. There are network errors that can occur when performing data fetching, and that must be dealt with by your app. There are buffer errors or call interruptions that can occur when attempting to access Chromecast or Airplay. …