# ExoPlayer Readme #

## Description ##

ExoPlayer is an application level media player for Android. It provides an
alternative to Android’s MediaPlayer API for playing audio and video both
locally and over the internet. ExoPlayer supports features not currently
supported by Android’s MediaPlayer API (as of KitKat), including DASH and
SmoothStreaming adaptive playbacks, persistent caching and custom renderers.
Unlike the MediaPlayer API, ExoPlayer is easy to customize and extend, and
can be updated through Play Store application updates.


## Developer guide ##

The [ExoPlayer developer guide][] provides a wealth of information to help you
get started.

[ExoPlayer developer guide]: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/exoplayer.html


## Using Eclipse ##

The repository includes Eclipse projects for both the ExoPlayer library and its
accompanying demo application. To get started:

  1. Install Eclipse and setup the [Android SDK][].

  1. Open Eclipse and navigate to File->Import->General->Existing Projects into
     Workspace.

  1. Select the root directory of the repository.

  1. Import the ExoPlayerDemo and ExoPlayerLib projects.

[Android SDK]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html


## Using Gradle ##

ExoPlayer can also be built using Gradle. For a complete list of tasks, run:

./gradlew tasks