PRESTOplay documentation

PRESTOplay is Castlabs’ player SDK family for building streaming applications across all major platforms. Each SDK provides playback of adaptive streaming formats, digital rights management (DRM) protection, subtitles, analytics integrations, and offline playback — all from a single, consistent API surface.

Get started

• Getting started — Android (Java/Kotlin, Gradle)

• Getting started — iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS (Swift, Xcode)

• Getting started — Browsers (JavaScript, NPM)

• Getting started — React Native (TypeScript, cross-platform)

Core concepts

• Thumbnails — Thumbnail formats, signaling, and authoring patterns

Core concepts

• Thumbnails
  • What thumbnails provide
  • Stream-signaled thumbnails
  • Side-loaded thumbnail formats
  • Authoring recommendations
  • Platform implementation guides

Platforms

• PRESTOplay for Android
  • Getting started
  • Thumbnails
• PRESTOplay for Apple
  • Getting started
  • Thumbnails
• PRESTOplay for web
  • Getting started
  • Player basics
  • Thumbnails
• PRESTOplay for React Native
  • Getting started
  • Thumbnails

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