A 4-Year Retrospective : Lessons Learned from Building a Video Player from Scratch with React Native
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Four years of building a custom video player with React Native yields concrete outcomes: a homegrown HLS streaming stack on AWS serving 170,000+ users and 350+ courses, react-native-video originally at 5.2.1 upgraded to 6.x, iOS shows low crash rate and smooth background audio, Android shows ~10% user-impacting crashes and 82 reports of audio not starting until forcing ExoPlayer (two-line fix), background-audio sync fails when using dual players, and the payoff comes from pruning dependencies and updating core libraries.
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