bb_player
Flutter plugin for Blue Billywig's native video player SDK. Provides hardware-accelerated playback with VAST/VPAID ads, analytics, Chromecast, Picture-in-Picture, fullscreen, outstream, and Shorts (vertical video).
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Last release 1 months ago
07 Jul 2026
Too new to tell
only 2 dated releases
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 2 of 2 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
2 months old
2 releases · first in 2026
2 releases in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
2 releases · Jun 2026 to Jul 2026Releases
latest 2-
8.54.007 Jul 2026 -
8.53.023 Jun 2026Release notes
Open source →- Android: switched
BBPlayerViewto true Hybrid Composition (initExpensiveAndroidView) instead of Texture Layer Hybrid Composition. Taps on the native control-bar buttons (settings / fullscreen) in the channel detail player were being swallowed under TLHC's synthesised touch dispatch; Hybrid Composition routes touches natively to the embedded views. Also the correct mode for the player'sSurfaceViewoutput (required for 10-bit / HDR / secure playback). - Android: bumped the native player SDK floor to
8.52.+(was8.50.+). BB native SDK 8.52 (PR #512) widened the player's host-activity check fromAppCompatActivitytoFragmentActivity, so the settings / track BottomSheet now shows under Flutter'sFlutterFragmentActivityhost. On 8.50.x the sheet silently never appeared (tap registered, no panel).
- Android: switched