# Next Player (open-source video player)

> Next Player is a free, open-source video player for Android. A simple material you video player based on Media3. It has 4,484 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.

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…

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/anilbeesetti/nextplayer |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Jetpack Compose |
| GitHub stars | 4,484 |
| License | GPL-3.0-only (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer/ (package dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.anilbeesetti.nextplayer |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Video players |
| Latest release | v0.18.0 (Sep 14, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 5, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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