Video Editing on Android with Media3
July 18, 2025
19 min
Free
android
media-editing
media3
jetpack
video-processing
transformer-api
android-development
kotlin
java
opengl
exoplayer
media-playback
Description
This talk explores video editing capabilities on Android using the Jetpack Media3 library, specifically its Transformer module. Kristina Simakova, Engineering Manager at Google's Android Media Editing team, provides an overview of Media3, dives into Transformer APIs, and demonstrates examples for tasks like file format conversion, downscaling, trimming, combining media, and applying video/audio effects. The presentation highlights how Transformer simplifies common editing features, offering code efficiency, performance optimizations, and broad device support (API 21+).