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8.57.0bluebillywig/flutter-bb-player ↗New releases in your daily digest, changelog included.

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).

Last release 1 months ago
24 Aug 2026
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 4 weeks
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 3 of 3 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
3 months old
3 releases · first in 2026

Release timeline

3 releases since 2026

2026

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Releases

8.57.024 Aug 2026
Android: bumped compileSdk from 34 to 36 (Android 16). Compiling against 34 broke startup when the player was embedded in an app running on Android 15
Android: bumped compileSdk from 34 to 36 (Android 16). Compiling against 34 broke startup when the player was embedded in an app running on Android 15+ (API 35+), where the OS forces edge-to-edge drawing.

Requires AGP 8.9 or newer. Flutter plugins are built from source by the consuming app, so your app's Android Gradle Plugin compiles this module — and AGP older than 8.9 rejects compileSdk 36 outright. Upgrade AGP before taking this version. The example app now uses AGP 8.9.1 / Gradle 8.11.1 to demonstrate that floor.

Note: this does not cover the Google Play requirement to target API 36 from 31 August 2026. That applies to your app's targetSdk; library modules have no targetSdk and AGP 8 ignores it for them. Set it in your own app.

Stops at 36 deliberately — API 37 requires migrating the native SDK from ExoPlayer 2 to Media3, tracked separately.

Versions 8.55.0 and 8.56.0 were never published to pub.dev; this release goes straight from 8.54.0. The package version tracks the BB native player SDK minor, which is at 8.57.0 on both Maven Central (Android) and CocoaPods (iOS) as of 24 August 2026.
Open source →
8.54.07 Jul 2026
Release tooling only — pub.dev publishing moved to OIDC trusted publishing and the release tag trigger was fixed. No changes to plugin behaviour, Dart

8.53.023 Jun 2026

Android: switched BBPlayerView to true Hybrid Composition (initExpensiveAndroidView) instead of Texture Layer Hybrid Composition. Taps on the native c

Android: switched BBPlayerView to 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's SurfaceView output (required for 10-bit / HDR / secure playback).
Android: bumped the native player SDK floor to 8.52.+ (was 8.50.+). BB native SDK 8.52 (PR #512) widened the player's host-activity check from AppCompatActivity to FragmentActivity, so the settings / track BottomSheet now shows under Flutter's FlutterFragmentActivity host. On 8.50.x the sheet silently never appeared (tap registered, no panel).

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