PlayHub Mobile – React Native Video & Live Streaming App

Your platform. In their pocket. Bring your PlayHub experience to Android with a native app for discovering videos, swiping through Shorts, following creators and joining live streams.

PlayHub Mobile connects to the versioned PlayHub API and follows your website branding, accent color, enabled features, categories and authentication settings. Built with React Native and Expo development builds, it brings your existing content and accounts into a familiar mobile experience.

Try the Live Android Demo | Explore the App | Installation & Documentation

Requires a licensed PlayHub website. This is the mobile companion app for your PlayHub installation. A reachable HTTPS API and the relevant backend services are required.

Discover Videos & Explore Your Platform

Home, Explore, Trending and Search connected to your PlayHub content.
API-powered categories, topics and discovery filters.
Creator channels with videos, Shorts, playlists and subscription actions.
Website branding, accent color and available features supplied by your backend.

Actual PlayHub Android home feed with topics, recommended videos and mobile navigation

Actual PlayHub Android Explore screen with topic and content filters

Native Playback & Vertical Shorts

Native video playback with fullscreen, mini-player, playback controls and Picture-in-Picture on supported Android devices.
YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and Dailymotion integrations, subject to each provider’s configuration, available controls and policies.
A vertical Shorts feed with creator profiles, reactions, comments, sharing and save actions.
Watch Later, viewing history, favorites, bookmarks and playlists.

Actual PlayHub Android Shorts feed with creator details and engagement controls

Live Streaming, Creators & Community

Live streaming, viewer mode, chat, polls and host controls with your configured LiveKit services.
Comments, likes, subscriptions, community posts and private messages.
Creator Studio, uploads and channel management for accounts with the appropriate permissions.
One connected experience that follows your website’s enabled features and account access.

Actual PlayHub Android creator channel with videos, Shorts, playlists and subscription controls

Accounts, Notifications & Branding

Email or username sign-in, password recovery and configured social-login options.
Versioned API integration with account-scoped sessions.
In-app notifications and configurable native Firebase Cloud Messaging push notifications.
Dynamic branding, feature flags and social-login availability from your PlayHub installation.
Light and dark themes with responsive phone and tablet layouts.

Native push requires your Firebase project, platform configuration and the relevant backend services and workers.

Actual PlayHub Android sign-in screen with email or username, password recovery and Google sign-in

Presentation images show the actual Android demo. Available content and features follow your PlayHub installation and configuration.

Google IMA SDK & Advertising Terms

The app integrates Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) SDK for supported native video advertising. External media providers control advertising within their own players.

This application integrates Google IMA SDK. Buyers must comply with Google’s IMA SDK Terms of Service, Google APIs terms, and the applicable advertising-service terms and policies, including Google Ad Manager requirements.

Configure advertising with your own service accounts and settings. See the installation documentation and advertising notice before deployment.

Build & Deployment Tools

React Native and Expo development-build architecture with native integrations.
Android APK and AAB build profiles.
Secure production networking configuration for your HTTPS API.
Firebase Cloud Messaging integration and environment-specific configuration.
Customer installation and deployment guides for Windows and Linux.

Configure your application identity, endpoints, credentials and signing for your deployment, then validate the signed build on your target devices before distribution.

Requirements

A licensed PlayHub website installation with a compatible, reachable HTTPS API.
A compatible Android build environment or configured cloud build workflow, following the supplied package instructions.
Your own Firebase, LiveKit, storage, social-login, media-provider and advertising-service credentials or configuration for the integrations you enable.

What’s Included

Complete React Native Android application source.
Configuration and build tools.
Automated tests.
Customer installation and production deployment guides.

Try PlayHub Mobile

Open the interactive Android demo or download the Android demo APK to explore the app on your own device.

Bring your PlayHub experience to Android with a branded, connected mobile application.

PlayHub Mobile | React Native Video and Live Streaming App