api.video Android video uploader

api.video is the video infrastructure for product builders. Lightning fast video APIs for integrating, scaling, and managing on-demand & low latency live streaming features in your app.

Table of contents

• Project description
• Getting started
  • Requirements
  • Installation
    • Maven users
    • Gradle users
    • Others
  • Code sample
  • Upload options
  • Permissions
• Documentation
  • API Endpoints
    • VideosApi
  • Models
  • Authorization
    • API key
    • Public endpoints
  • Recommendation
• Have you gotten use from this API client?
• Contribution

Project description

api.video's Android streamlines the coding process. Chunking files is handled for you, as is pagination and refreshing your tokens.

Getting started

Requirements

Building the API client library requires:

1. Java 1.8+
2. Maven/Gradle

Installation

Maven users

Add this dependency to your project's POM:

<dependency>
  <groupId>video.api</groupId>
  <artifactId>android-video-uploader</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.4</version>
  <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

Gradle users

Add this dependency to your project's build file:

implementation "video.api:android-video-uploader:1.2.4"

Others

At first generate the JAR by executing:

mvn clean package

Then manually install the following JARs:

• target/android-video-uploader-1.2.4.jar
• target/lib/*.jar

Code sample

Please follow the installation instruction and execute the following Kotlin code:

// If you want to upload a video with an upload token (uploadWithUploadToken):
VideosApiStore.initialize()
// if you rather like to use the sandbox environment:
// VideosApiStore.initialize(environment = Environment.SANDBOX)
// If you rather like to upload with your "YOUR_API_KEY" (upload)
// VideosApiStore.initialize("YOUR_API_KEY", Environment.PRODUCTION)
// if you rather like to use the sandbox environment:
// VideosApiStore.initialize("YOU_SANDBOX_API_KEY", Environment.SANDBOX)


val myVideoFile = File("my-video.mp4")

val workManager = WorkManager.getInstance(context) // WorkManager comes from package "androidx.work:work-runtime"
workManager.uploadWithUploadToken("MY_UPLOAD_TOKEN", myVideoFile) // Dispatch the upload with the WorkManager
// if your rather like to use your API key:
// workManager.upload("MY_VIDEO_ID", myVideoFile)

Example

Examples that demonstrate how to use the API is provided in folder examples/.

Upload methods

To upload a video, you have 3 differents methods:

• WorkManager: preferred method: Upload with Android WorkManager API. It supports progress notifications. Directly use, WorkManager extensions. See example for more details.
• UploadService: Upload with an Android Service. It supports progress notifications. You have to extend the UploadService and register it in your AndroidManifest.xml. See example for more details.
• Direct call with ApiClient: Do not call API from the main thread, otherwise you will get a android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException. Dispatch API calls with Thread, Executors or Kotlin coroutine to avoid this.

Permissions

You have to add the following permissions in your AndroidManifest.xml:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<!-- Application requires android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE to upload videos` -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

Your application also has to dynamically request the android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission to upload videos.

Documentation

API Endpoints

All URIs are relative to https://ws.api.video

VideosApi

Retrieve an instance of VideosApi:

val videosApi = VideosApi("YOUR_API_KEY", Environment.PRODUCTION)

Endpoints

Documentation for Models

• AccessToken
• AdditionalBadRequestErrors
• AuthenticatePayload
• BadRequest
• Metadata
• NotFound
• RefreshTokenPayload
• Video
• VideoAssets
• VideoSource
• VideoSourceLiveStream
• VideoSourceLiveStreamLink

Documentation for Authorization

API key

Most endpoints required to be authenticated using the API key mechanism described in our documentation. The access token generation mechanism is automatically handled by the client. All you have to do is provide an API key when instantiating the ApiClient:

val videosApi = VideosApi("YOUR_API_KEY", Environment.PRODUCTION)

Public endpoints

Some endpoints don't require authentication. These one can be called with a client instantiated without API key:

val videosApi = VideosApi()

Recommendation

It's recommended to create an instance of ApiClient per thread in a multithreaded environment to avoid any potential issues. For direct call with ApiClient: Do not call API from the main thread, otherwise you will get a android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException. Dispatch API calls with Thread, Executors or Kotlin coroutine to avoid this. Alternatively, APIs come with an asynchronous counterpart (createAsync for create) except for the upload endpoint.

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Contribution

Since this API client is generated from an OpenAPI description, we cannot accept pull requests made directly to the repository. If you want to contribute, you can open a pull request on the repository of our client generator. Otherwise, you can also simply open an issue detailing your need on this repository.