Next Player

Next Player

A simple material you video player based on Media3

Anil Kumar Beesetti Local Media Player Multimedia

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Description

Next Player is a native video player written in Kotlin and jetpack compose. It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for users to play videos on their Android devices

This project is still in development and is expected to have bugs

Supported formats:

* Audio: Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, ALAC, PCM/WAVE (μ-law, A-law), MP1, MP2, MP3, AMR (NB, WB), AAC (LC, ELD, HE; xHE on Android 9+), AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD
* Video: H.263, H.264 AVC (Baseline Profile; Main Profile on Android 6+), H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8, VP9, AV1
* Streaming: DASH, HLS, RTSP
* Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, TTML, VTT

Key Features:

* Native Android app with simple and easy-to-use interface
* Completely free and open source and without any ads or excessive permissions
* Material 3 (you) support
* Audio/Subtitle track selection
* Vertical swipe to change brightness (left) / volume (right)
* Horizontal swipe to seek through video
* Media picker with tree, folder and file view modes
* Playback speed control
* Pinch to zoom in and zoom out
* Resize (fit/stretch/crop/100%)
* Volume boost
* External subtitle support (long press subtitle icon)
* Controls lock
* No ads, tracking or excessive permissions
* Picture in picture mode

Project Repo: https://github.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer

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Versions

Version Date Size Requires Android Download
0.14.1 current
546e9162e1afd40c…
2025-11-28 19 MB API 21
0.14.0
6932187b4b9db5b6…
2025-09-23 19 MB API 21
0.13.0
4bcda446e1d402a6…
2025-01-20 19 MB API 21

Permissions

What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.

  • Internet accessSend and receive data over the internet.
  • VideosRead videos from the media library.
  • Read storageRead files on the device storage.
  • Write storageCreate and change files on the device storage.
  • Foreground serviceKeep running in the background, visible in the status bar.
  • FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK
  • Network stateCheck whether and how the device is connected.
  • nextplayer.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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