Flutter video player wont accept self signed https connection

Question

I'm working on a Flutter app that is connecting to assets in the cloud that are using self signed HTTPS.

In the Flutter app I am using Chewie and VideoPlayerController from the lib below:

import 'package:video_player/video_player.dart';
import 'package:chewie/chewie.dart';

The video playback crashes when it encounters the HTTPS asset using self signed SSL certificate. I don't see any options to ignore this "issue".

The error is somewhat generic but when I switch back to HTTP it works just fine. This is the error I get from the player when using the self signed HTTPS link.

PlatformException: Video player had error com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error

There should be some way to use a self signed SSL but how can I go about doing that?

Solution

Enable CleartextTraffic in Android manifest

// android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"

<application
        android:label="App Name"
        android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true"
        android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/launcher_icon">

Comments

[dheeraj reddy]

Same issue. Any solution?