https://github.com/mfkl/libvlcsharp.android.awindow

Tiny Android binding project to allow running libvlc on Xamarin.Android
https://github.com/mfkl/libvlcsharp.android.awindow

android binding csharp java libvlc vlc xamarin

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Tiny Android binding project to allow running libvlc on Xamarin.Android

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mfkl/libvlcsharp.android.awindow
• Owner: mfkl
• Created: 2018-04-15T09:18:07.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-11-24T06:27:59.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T15:51:53.092Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: android, binding, csharp, java, libvlc, vlc, xamarin
• Language: Java
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• Size: 57.6 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# LibVLCSharp.Android.AWindow

Small android binding project

Setting up `libvlc` for Android requires, amongst other things, calling this C function

```

LIBVLC_API void libvlc_media_player_set_android_context( 	

    libvlc_media_player_t *  	p_mi,

		void *  	p_awindow_handler 

	) 		

```

The documentation for the second parameter explains `p_awindow_handler: org.videolan.libvlc.AWindow jobject owned by the org.videolan.libvlc.MediaPlayer class from the libvlc-android project.`

So we will create an automatically generated binding for this class only, and pass a pointer to it to C code from C#.

_TODO: check Android API the Java code is compiled against._

## How to make your own binding

### Compile the relevant java code

- Get the sources (3.3.8): https://bintray.com/videolan/Android/download_file?file_path=org%2Fvideolan%2Fandroid%2Flibvlc-all%2F3.3.8%2Flibvlc-all-3.3.8-sources.jar

- Get the .so files https://bintray.com/videolan/Android/download_file?file_path=org%2Fvideolan%2Fandroid%2Flibvlc-all%2F3.3.8%2Flibvlc-all-3.3.8.aar

As of libvlc 3.0, you need to extract 3 Java files.

- `AndroidUtil`

- `AWindow`

- `IVLCVout`

- Put them at this location `MyApplication\org.videolan.libvlc\src\main\java`.

- Install gradle from choco https://chocolatey.org/packages/gradle

- run `gradle wrapper`

- finally run `.\gradlew assembleRelease` from `LibVLCSharp.Android.AWindow\MyApplication`

Extract the aar file from 

`LibVLCSharp.Android.AWindow\MyApplication\org.videolan.libvlc\build\outputs\aar` 

and copy it to

`LibVLCSharp.Android.AWindow\LibVLCSharp.Android.AWindow\Jars`.

On the C#, make sure the .aar file is referenced in your `csproj` file and the build action is marked as `LibraryProjectZip`.

-> Build.

The resulting dll is part of `LibVLCSharp.Android`.