Next Player

Anil Kumar Beesetti

About this app

Next Player is a native video player written in Kotlin and jetpack compose. It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for users to play videos on their Android devices

This project is still in development and is expected to have bugs

Supported formats:

* 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
* Video: H.263, H.264 AVC (Baseline Profile; Main Profile on Android 6+), H.265 HEVC, MPEG-4 SP, VP8, VP9, AV1
* Streaming: DASH, HLS, RTSP
* Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, TTML, VTT

Key Features:

* Native Android app with simple and easy-to-use interface
* Completely free and open source and without any ads or excessive permissions
* Material 3 (you) support
* Audio/Subtitle track selection
* Vertical swipe to change brightness (left) / volume (right)
* Horizontal swipe to seek through video
* Media picker with tree, folder and file view modes
* Playback speed control
* Pinch to zoom in and zoom out
* Resize (fit/stretch/crop/100%)
* Volume boost
* External subtitle support (long press subtitle icon)
* Controls lock
* No ads, tracking or excessive permissions
* Picture in picture mode

Project Repo: https://github.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer

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Ratings and reviews

Great video app... really good. It has all the necessary things and even more what a video app should have. I usually prefer offline video watching, so I need this kind of app in my phone all the time. Previously was a fan of Samsung Video Library/Player, but finding this app was even better. It has clean interface and customization is next level. Really great work.

Next Player is a clean, smooth video player with a modern UI and stable playback. One feature that would make it much better is a custom skip duration option (up to 90 seconds). I watch a lot of anime, and being able to skip intros easily (usually around 60–90s) would make a big difference. Fixed skip intervals just aren’t flexible enough for this. Adding a customizable skip setting would make playback much more convenient for regular viewers. Hope this gets added soon.

Great minimal UI, but a major issue: it uses a separate audio stream that bypasses system effects (DSP, Dolby, etc.). This breaks audio enhancements I rely on. Please add an option to choose the audio stream and default it to music. Until then, I’m using another player.

What’s new

- Player playlist view
- Added Search functionality
- Thumbnail generation strategies
- Fixed audio boost not working in background play mode
- Other fixes and improvements