7 best Flutter Media plugins

Flutter is an application development framework from Google for creating cross-platform mobile applications (in iOS and Android).

Features Like Hot Reload, a vast widget catalog, very good performance, and a solid community contribute to meeting that objective and makes Flutter a pretty good framework.

Imagine if you could make Flutter development faster, and see an instant boost in your workflow.

or even better:

What if there were the 7 best Flutter Media plugins to choose from.

…and each of them could make your development faster and easier?

You’d probably be pumped to read about them.

Lucky for you, that’s exactly what I’m going to share with you in this post:

7 best Flutter Media plugins:

Let’s get started with the list:

1. Flutter-WebRTC

WebRTC is a Flutter media plugin For implementing Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs.

Features

• Audio/Video
• Data Channel
• Screen Capture

2. Chewie

Chewie is a simple yet powerful video player Plugin for Flutter

This video player Flutter media plugin provides low-level access to video playback.

Features

• wraps player in a friendly Material or Cupertino UI!
• Uses the video_player under the hood

3. flutter_audio_recorder

A Flutter Audio Record Plugin that supports Record, Pause, Resume, Stop and provides access to audio level metering properties.

Features

• Works for both Android and iOS
• Supports most audio formats

4. Stereo

A Flutter plugin for playing music on iOS and Android.

Features

• Play/pause
• Stop
• Duration / seek to position
• Load track from the path
• Load track from the library

5. Neeko

Simple video player widget based on video_player.

Neeko supports more actions such as timeline control, toggle fullscreen and so on.

Features

• Uses the video_player under the hood
• Multi-Feature plugin for Video playback in the flutter

6. flutter_sound

This Flutter media plugin provides a simple recorder and player functionalities for both android and ios platforms.

flutter_sound only supports the default file extension for each platform.

Features

• Fluttersoubd can handle a file from a remote URL.
• It can handle playback stream from native.

7. Audio recorder

Yet another simple fLutter plugin to Record audio and store it locally.

Currently, this plugin only supports the AAC compression to encode audio.

Features

• Supports all the basic audio format
• Works for both Android and iOS

Conclusion

Flutter Media plugins allow us to build apps quickly and save precious time to build a product.

Flutter allows developers to publish and contribute towards flutters package development.

The list of Flutter media plugins has been ranked using package health, overall score, and ease of maintenance.