It offers various functionalities, such as being able to mute video, play audio only and not video, and pause or play video when notifications are in front of the screen. React-native-video is basically a package that allows a video component to be shown/used within React Native. The next thing to do is to install the package react-native-video. This will open a simulation iOS phone that will showcase our React Native project. Once you’re sure you are, enter the command below. Once you have done this, open the terminal within Visual Studio Code and make sure you are in your folder root location. Once this has completed (it may take a few minutes) open the folder in your favourite code editor. This will begin to create the React Native project and all the necessary files/folders. Once you have done this, enter the command react-native init rnvideoproject. Once you have done this, open the terminal/command prompt and navigate to the folder you have just created. I like to use the downloads or desktop folder. The first thing you will need to do is to create a folder anywhere on your system.