PSDK 1.3 for Android Programmer's Guide

  • Overview and prerequisites
    The Adobe Primetime Software Development Kit (PSDK) client for Android is a toolkit that provides you with the means to add advanced video playback functionality to your applications. This PSDK also supports ad insertion, content protection, and analytics.
  • New features for 1.3
    Summary of product enhancements for the 1.3 Android PSDK.
  • SDK changes for 1.3
    Several API interfaces have changed for the 1.3 PSDK for Android.
  • Migrate from PSDK 1.2 to 1.3
    The 1.3 PSDK includes various API changes that might affect your existing applications.
  • Create a video player
    The PSDK provides the tools that you need for creating your own advanced video player application, which you can integrate with other Primetime components.
  • HTTP 302 redirect optimization
    If a URL request is redirected, subsequent requests made to similar locations use the final URL, thereby avoiding 302 responses. This is enabled automatically.
  • Work with MediaPlayer objects
    The MediaPlayer object represents your media player and a MediaPlayerItem represents audio or video on your player.
  • Include advertising
    The Primetime SDK for Android allows you to request ads for your live/linear and VOD content through its Primetime Ad Decisioning interface.
  • Add custom ad markers
    With custom ad markers, you can mark specific sections of the main content as ad-related content periods.
  • Customize opportunity detectors and content resolvers
    An opportunity detector is a component of the PSDK that detects custom tags in a stream and identifies placement opportunities. These placement opportunities are then sent to the content resolver, which customizes the content/ad insertion workflow based on the placement opportunity properties and metadata.
  • Set up closed captioning
    Closed captioning allows people with hearing disabilities to have access to video programming by displaying the audio portion of the video as text on the screen.
  • Set up alternate audio
    Alternate (late-binding) audio is the support of multiple language tracks for HTTP video streams (live/linear and VOD) without having to duplicate and repackage the video for each audio track. Late binding of an audio track allows you to easily provide multiple language tracks for a video asset at any time before or after the asset’s initial packaging.
  • Content security using DRM
    You can use the features of the Primetime digital rights management (DRM) system to provide secure access to your video content.
  • Use the notification system
    The notification portion of the PSDK library allows you to create a logging and debugging system that can be useful for diagnostic and validation purposes.
  • Playback and failover
    Streaming over the Internet requires a constant and stable connection to play a stream from a remote server. However, the variability of a viewer's Internet connection or streaming playback means that remote playback might not have the quality of media played locally.
  • Primetime player classes summary
    You can use the Primetime Player API to customize the behavior of the player.
  • Notification codes
    The PSDK notification system includes various classes of notification events produced by the PSDK.
  • Glossary
  • Copyright
  • Release notes
  • PDF: PSDK 1.3 for Android Programmer's Guide