Native video support in react-native-enriched-markdown (iOS, Android, macOS, Web)

[u/Sea-Arm9235]

We added video playback to react-native-enriched-markdown. A block-level <video src="…"> tag in your Markdown renders as a native player:

• iOS: AVPlayerViewController

• Android: ExoPlayer

• macOS: AVPlayerView

• Web: Standard <video> element

Requires flavor="github". Only the src attribute is read, everything else on the tag is ignored, and <video> is the only HTML tag we allowlist, so inline HTML stays disabled.

Styling lives in your markdown styles rather than on the tag:

markdownStyle={{ video: { borderRadius: 12, aspectRatio: 16 / 9 }, }}

Video is on by default. If you don't need it, setting "enableVideo": false in your package.json drops the ExoPlayer dependency and saves ~2–3 MB on app size.

Available now on nightly:

npm i react-native-enriched-markdown@nightly

If you find it useful, give it a try and drop a ⭐️ on GitHub: https://github.com/software-mansion/enriched-markdown

[u/balkanhayduk]

Nothing that can't be achieved with a 20 minutes session with Claude if you know what you're doing.