What is the best way to indicate loading while a video is loading in app?

Please provide the following:

  1. SDK Version: 38
  2. Platforms(Android/iOS/web/all): iOS and Android

I wanted to ask what would be the best way to handle loading for videos on Expo / React Native.

Expo has good documentation on the Video and AV components to handle video / audio:

I’ve tried two things so far: ’

  1. Using posterSource in a Video component. The problem here is that the poster image doesn’t format properly.

This is what my Video component looks like:

    const videoStyle = { width: '100%', height: '100%', display: display}; 
    return (
        <Video
            ref={playbackObject}
            source={{uri: source}}
            posterSource={require('path/to/file')}
            rate={1.0}
            volume={1.0}
            isMuted={isMuted}
            resizeMode="cover"
            usePoster={true}
            shouldPlay={shouldPlay}
            onPlaybackStatusUpdate={_onPlaybackStatusUpdate}
            progressUpdateIntervalMillis={50}
            isLooping
            style={videoStyle}
            posterStyle={videoStyle}
        >
        </Video>
    )
  1. I’ve also tried using playbackStatus to see if the video is loaded or buffering and have an activity indicator when the video is loaded or buffering, but because I use states, there is some lag.

My implementation for (2) looks like this:

const [loaded, setLoaded] = useState(false); 

const _onPlaybackStatusUpdate = playbackStatus => {

    if(playbackStatus.isBuffering){  
      if(loaded){
        setLoaded(false); 
      }
    } else {
      if(!loaded){
        setLoaded(true); 
      }
    }
}

If loaded = true, we do not show an activity indicator. Else, we do show an activity indicator. The main problem here is there is a lag, which is not great UI.

So with that in mind, what would be people’s recommendation of handling loading for videos? Thanks!!

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