Building Media-Rich Android Apps with MediaCodec and Vendor Extensions | by PAD Editorial | Sep, 2023
If you’re developing media-rich apps for Android, you’ll want to become familiar with the Android API’s MediaCodec class. MediaCodec provides access to low-level media encoder/decoder (CODEC) components for processing audio, video, and compressed data. With it, you can incorporate features like low-latency decoding to enhance…
How Qualcomm Added Audio Offload Support for ExoPlayer | by PAD Editorial | Sep, 2023
If you build rich media apps, you’ve probably used the Android API’s MediaPlayer class for video playback. Like many developers, you may have found that the API’s lack of dynamic streaming support over HTTP, smooth streaming, and persistent caching pushed you to find an alternative….