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Open-source Android video player with broad format support, playback controls, external subtitles, and picture-in-picture. Version 0.21.0 adds settings import and export, subtitle repositioning, and improved FFmpeg subtitle support.
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About this app
Next Player is an Android native video player written in Kotlin. It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for users to play videos on their Android devices
Supported formats ・ Video: H.263, H.264 AVC (Baseline Profile; Main Profile on Android 6+), H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8, VP9, AV1
Support depends on Android device
・ Audio: Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, ALAC, PCM/WAVE (μ-law, A-law), MP1, MP2, MP3, AMR (NB, WB), AAC (LC, ELD, HE; xHE on Android 9+), AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD
Support provided by ExoPlayer FFmpeg extension
・Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, TTML, VTT, DVB
SSA/ASS has limited styling support see this issue
Features ・Native Android app with simple and easy-to-use interface ・Completely free and open source and without any ads or excessive permissions ・Software decoders for h264 and hevc ・Audio/Subtitle track selection ・Vertical swipe to change brightness (left) / volume (right) ・Horizontal swipe to seek through video ・Material 3 (You) support ・Media picker with tree, folder and file view modes ・Play videos from url ・Play videos from storage access framework (Android Document picker) ・Control playback speed ・External Subtitle support ・Zoom gesture ・Picture-in-picture mode
📄 License GNU General Public License v3.0（GPL-3.0）
What's new
- ▶New features ・Added settings export and import, with optional saved network connections by @DearZack in #2062 ・Added drag-to-reposition support for ordinary text subtitles by @SairamVemula in #2067 ・Added FFmpeg subtitle support, preserving authored ASS/SSA styling and bitmap subtitle placement by @anilbeesetti in #2083
- ▶Improvements ・Improved screen transitions to match system navigation by @anilbeesetti in #2076 ・Kept chapter titles readable on narrow players, with speed and rotation in the scrollable bottom controls by @anilbeesetti in #2116
- ▶Fixes ・Fixed file moves resetting media dates and sending originals to Trash on the same storage volume by @anilbeesetti in #2065 ・Fixed seeking failures for videos opened from other apps after the player activity closes by @DevasMIN in #2069 ・Fixed the navigation rail overlapping library content in landscape by @anilbeesetti in #2090 ・Fixed pinch zoom after changing video scale by @anilbeesetti in #2094 ・Fixed the player ignoring the dynamic-color preference by @anilbeesetti in #2095 ・Fixed media-session artwork crashes on some custom Android 15 ROMs by @anilbeesetti in #2101
- ▶New Contributors ・@DevasMIN made their first contribution in #2069 ・@SairamVemula made their first contribution in #2067 ・@DearZack made their first contribution in #2062
- Full Changelog: https://github.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer/compare/v0.20.0...v0.21.0
About this version
- Version
- 0.21.0 (78)
- Size
- 19.68 MB
- Requires Android
- 7.0
- Target SDK
- 24
- Architecture
- arm64-v8a
- Downloads
- 9
- Updated
- Nov 14, 2026
- Package
- dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer
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