Playing a video from Assets using ExoPlayer 2

VideoPlayer.kt

/**
* It took me AGES to figure this out, seriously, exoplayer documentation IS SO BAD.
*/

package xxx

import android.net.Uri
import android.os.Bundle
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity
import com.cube.arc.R
import com.cube.lib.util.bind
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerFactory
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.SimpleExoPlayer
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.extractor.DefaultExtractorsFactory
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.ExtractorMediaSource
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.trackselection.AdaptiveTrackSelection
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.trackselection.DefaultTrackSelector
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.ui.SimpleExoPlayerView
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.AssetDataSource
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DataSource
import com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DataSource.Factory

class VideoPlayerActivity : AppCompatActivity()
{
	lateinit var player: SimpleExoPlayer

	override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?)
	{
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

		setContentView(R.layout.video_player_view)
		val videoPlayer = findViewById(R.id.video_player) as SimpleExoPlayerView
		val videoTrackSelectionFactory = AdaptiveTrackSelection.Factory(null)
		val trackSelector = DefaultTrackSelector(videoTrackSelectionFactory)

		player = ExoPlayerFactory.newSimpleInstance(this, trackSelector)
		videoPlayer.requestFocus()
		videoPlayer.useController = true
		videoPlayer.player = player

		val dataSourceFactory: DataSource.Factory = object : Factory
		{
			override fun createDataSource(): DataSource
			{
				return AssetDataSource(this@VideoPlayerActivity)
			}
		}

		val videoSource = ExtractorMediaSource(Uri.parse("assets:///onboarding_video.mp4"), dataSourceFactory, DefaultExtractorsFactory(), null, null)

		player.prepare(videoSource)
		player.playWhenReady = true
	}

	override fun onDestroy()
	{
		super.onDestroy()

		player.release()
	}
}

you can change deprecated method code like below,
val videoSource = ExtractorMediaSource.Factory(factory).createMediaSource(Uri.parse("assets:///onboarding_video.mp4"))

^ This kind soul has explained what the ExoPlayer docs couldn't

Some of the libraries are now deprecated. I updated the code that you can find at this LINK if you need it

Since this is the first result on Google for "ExoPlayer play local asset" I thought I share a slightly simpler way of playing local assets (thanks to andrewlewis@).

ExoPlayer 2.12 introduces the MediaItem class so you can do:

val firstVideoUri = Uri.parse("asset:///localfile.mp3")
val firstItem = MediaItem.fromUri(firstVideoUri)
player.addMediaItem(firstItem)

Note that the URI should start with asset:/// not assets:///

Since this is the first result on Google for "ExoPlayer play local asset" I thought I share a slightly simpler way of playing local assets (thanks to andrewlewis@).

ExoPlayer 2.12 introduces the MediaItem class so you can do:

val firstVideoUri = Uri.parse("asset:///localfile.mp3")
val firstItem = MediaItem.fromUri(firstVideoUri)
player.addMediaItem(firstItem)

Note that the URI should start with asset:/// not assets:///

This worked for me, I had assets not asset and I had 4 '/'. Funny thing is the old way worked with assets
ExtractorMediaSource(Uri.parse("assets:///test.mp4"), dataSourceFactory, DefaultExtractorsFactory(), null, null))

Since this is the first result on Google for "ExoPlayer play local asset" I thought I share a slightly simpler way of playing local assets (thanks to andrewlewis@).

ExoPlayer 2.12 introduces the MediaItem class so you can do:

val firstVideoUri = Uri.parse("asset:///localfile.mp3")
val firstItem = MediaItem.fromUri(firstVideoUri)
player.addMediaItem(firstItem)

Note that the URI should start with asset:/// not assets:///

thank you