ExoPlayer is the de facto standard video player on Android, an open-source, application-level player that supports HLS, DASH, SmoothStreaming, ABR, and Widevine DRM, with a flexible architecture that teams customize for their needs. It now ships as part of AndroidX Media3.
Compared to the platform's basic MediaPlayer, ExoPlayer gives streaming teams the control they need - custom ABR logic, fine-grained buffering, advanced DRM handling, and detailed playback events for QoE instrumentation. It is the Android counterpart to AVPlayer on Apple platforms and the open-source web players on the browser, and a core building block of any Android OTT app.
