14 DAY TRIAL // VMIX, one of the leaders in online video platform services, just announced that its open-source Mobile Video SDK will now support application development for Android-based devices.
The company's Mobile Video SDK uses an open-source library that extends media-framework APIs in the native device SDKs, to speed up the development for Android devices, as well as for Apple’s iPad and iPhone. This includes release of an Android Demo App that developers can use to build on and demonstrate video-powered app development for the Android platform.
“We continue to add components to our mobile SDK that make it very easy for app developers to harness the power of video quickly,” said Greg Kostello, Co-founder and CTO at VMIX. “We now offer SDK tools and templates for Android, iPhone and iPad, and we’ll continue rolling out features for each of these device types, based on feedback and needs from our development community.”
Even though the first version of VMIX SDK featured the ability to pull and display video thumbnails, titles and descriptions, as well as stream video over Wi-Fi and wireless networks, the second version of the SDK, now offers developers the possibility to present videos individually or organized by category in a video-gallery style application.
“As with for iPhone and iPad, we’re including an Android video-gallery sample app, which lets developers substitute their clients’ own videos and preferences in minutes,” said Lei Pan, Senior Director of Engineering at VMIX. “This demonstrates how easily organizations can add dynamic content to the apps they create for the Android user community.”
New upload capabilities have been added for iPhone that allows mobile end users to upload video to a VMIX account and developers to engage audiences more effectively. This feature will also be available on the Android platform by August.
“Mobile upload functions make managing, publishing and sharing video so much easier and give developers the means to engage audiences more actively with video.”