How to create a custom video player for your FlutterFlow app?

Creating a custom video player for your FlutterFlow app involves several key steps. The tutorial below will walk you through this process.

Step 1: Install the necessary packages

Before starting, ensure you have video_player and chewie installed. To do this, include the following in your pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter
  video_player: any
  chewie: any

Now, run flutter pub get to install the required packages.

Step 2: Import the libraries

At the top of your Dart file, import the video_player and chewie libraries.

import 'package:video_player/video_player.dart';
import 'package:chewie/chewie.dart';

Step 3: Set up the VideoPlayerController

Next, initialize a VideoPlayerController. This handles the actual video playback.

VideoPlayerController _videoPlayerController = VideoPlayerController.network('<YOUR_VIDEO_URL>');

Replace '' with the URL of your video file. Note that the file should be accessible publicly.

Step 4: Create a Chewie controller

The Chewie controller provides a custom UI for the video player.

 bool _autoInitialize = true;
 bool _autoPlay = false;
 bool _looping = false;
 bool _allowFullScreen = true;
 VideoPlayerController _videoPlayerController1;
 VideoPlayerController _videoPlayerController2;

ChewieController _chewieController = ChewieController(
  videoPlayerController: _videoPlayerController,
  autoInitialize: _autoInitialize,
  autoPlay: _autoPlay,
  looping: _looping,
  fullScreenByDefault: _allowFullScreen,
);

Step 5: Create your video player widget

Finally, create your video player widget using the Chewie widget.

Chewie(
  controller: _chewieController,
)

Now, you can use this widget anywhere in your app.

Step 6: Controlling the video player

Within the brackets of the Chewie widget, you can set up the following optional parameters to control the behavior of your video player:

• Aspect ratio (aspectRatio)
• Auto initialisation (autoInitialize)
• Auto play (autoPlay)
• Looping (looping)
• Muting (mute)
• Full screen by default (fullScreenByDefault)

Pass the desired values as follows:

Chewie(
  controller: _chewieController,
  aspectRatio: 3 / 2,
  autoInitialize: true,
  autoPlay: false,
  looping: false,
  mute: false,
  fullScreenByDefault: true,
)

Step 7: Dispose the Controllers

Make sure to dispose of the controllers when it's done to free up resources.

@override
void dispose() {
 _videoPlayerController.dispose();
 _chewieController.dispose();
 super.dispose();
}

Congratulations, you now have a custom video player for your FlutterFlow app! You can customise this further to fit your design and functionality needs.