Video Streaming App in Flutter

Designing a video streaming app is a fun task to improve your development skills and design fun applications. Using Flutter, an open-source UI toolkit developed by Google, you can design for apps in iOS and Android, web and desktop all at once. Here, in this article, the reader will be introduced to the approach of developing a video streaming application in Flutter with the focus on the key actions and elements that are necessary to consider while implementing this type of application. As a result of completing this lesson, you will have a fully working application that can play a video from a URL with the ability to also have controls and navigation.

How to Build a Video Streaming App in Flutter

To develop a video streaming app using Flutter, there are certain delicate stages that must be followed diligently including; Follow these steps to create your own video streaming app: Follow these steps to create your own video streaming app:

Project Directory Structure

Before diving into the code, let's look at the directory structure of our project:

Steps required for Video Streaming in Flutter

In a Flutter application, to play videos, it is necessary to request the video_player plugin, which displays the video material using a widget. Both network and asset videos are supported, that means that you can choose how exactly you want to use video playback in your application.

Step 1: Create a New Flutter Project

Open your terminal and create a new Flutter project by running the following command:

flutter create video_streaming_app

Navigate to the project directory:

cd video_streaming_app

Step 2: Add Video_Player package to Dependencies:

To stream videos, we need to add the video_player package to our project. Open the pubspec.yaml file and add the following dependency:

 video_player: ^2.9.1

Run flutter pub get to install the package.

Step 3: Import the necessary packages

Import the video_player package into your Dart file where you want to play the video:

Step 4: Initialise the VideoPlayerController

Create a VideoPlayerController and initialise it with a video source. This can be a network URL or a local asset.

For this example, we’ll use a network video:

Step 5: Display the video Using VideoPlayer Widget

Use the VideoPlayer widget to display the video controlled by your VideoPlayerController.

We have also added Playback icon and a progress bar:

Step 6: Dispose the controller created before

Step 7: Run the App:

After completing the code, run your app using:

flutter run

Output Video :