[loadAssetsAsync] Prefetch videos like Image.prefetch

[mgscreativa]

Hi! in my loadAssetsAsync function, I need to prefetch videos too. Videos of my app are really small, but need to be prefetch.

Currently my code looks like this:

loadAssetsAsync = async () => {
    const videos = _.merge(routineVideos); // routineVideos: array of key => require() videos...
    const cacheVideos = _.map(videos, video => {
      if (typeof video === 'string') {
        return Video.prefetch(video); // Does Video.prefetch exists?
      }

      return Asset.fromModule(video).downloadAsync();
    });

    const fonts = [MaterialCommunityIcons.font];
    const cacheFonts = fonts.map(font => Font.loadAsync(font));

    await Promise.all([...cacheVideos, ...cacheFonts]);
  };

Is there something similar to Image.prefetch but for videos?

Thanks!

[ide]

There is no Video.prefetch but you could try FileSystem.downloadAsync and then playing the video from the local URI.

https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/sdk/filesystem.html#expofilesystemdownloadasyncuri-fileuri-options

[mgscreativa]

Great! Will try and post the resulting code here for you to check it out.

Thanks!