Android YouTube Player

Android module that plays videos from YouTube.

This module create an Android activity that allows developers to play videos that are hosted on YouTube. This module is based on Android YouTube player library.

The original code was created by KeyesLabs (www.keyeslabs.com) as part of the Screebl project. The developers wanted the ability to play YouTube-hosted help videos, and wanted those videos to be able to play on any device, even those that didn't have the stock YouTube player app.

NOTE: If module unable to get the RTSP url from YouTube server, then video cannot be played.

Features:

• Higher Bandwidth Video
  This module plays higher bandwidth video from YouTube server as new Activity.
• Auto Play
  Without user interaction, video will will play automatically in landscape mode once it is loaded from YouTube server.
  
• Video Player Controls
  YouTube video player comes with default controls like play, pause, SeekForward, SeekBackward.
  
• Play by Video Id and Playlist Id
  playVideo method takes video id as input parameter and plays video automatcally.
  playPlayListVideo method takes playlist id as input parameter then it will play the latest video added to a YouTube playlist.
  

Usage:

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
 backgroundColor : "#fff",
 layout : "vertical"
});

var youtubePlayer = require('titutorial.youtubeplayer');
Ti.API.info("module is => " + youtubePlayer);

/*
 * Play video by videoId
 */
var playVideo = Ti.UI.createButton({
 title : 'Play video',
 height : '40dp',
 width : Ti.UI.SIZE,
 top : '100dp'
});
win.add(playVideo);

playVideo.addEventListener('click', function() {
 youtubePlayer.playVideo("FjMs_imWkFM");
});

/*
 * Play video by playListId
 */
var playPlayListVideo = Ti.UI.createButton({
 title : 'Play playlist video',
 height : '40dp',
 width : Ti.UI.SIZE,
 top : '100dp'
});

playPlayListVideo.addEventListener('click', function() {
 youtubePlayer.playPlayListVideo("PLB03EA9545DD188C3");
});

win.add(playPlayListVideo);

win.open();

Download:
Module: https://marketplace.appcelerator.com/apps/6223?942520925
Source code: https://github.com/railskarthi/YoutubePlayer-Android

Screenshot:

Android YouTube Player

 

Android System Info Module

Recently I developed an native module called Android System Info Module and published in Appcelerator Marketplace.

Android System Info Module in AppC Marketplace

This module used to get the basic Android system information.

Using this module we can get system information like

•  OS VERSION
•  API LEVEL
•  HARDWARE MANUFACTURER
•  DEVICE
•  MODEL
•  SYSTEM RAM(both in kb and mb)
•  ABI
•  PROCESSOR 

Accessing the Android System Info Module

To access this module from JavaScript, you would do the following:

var systeminfo = require("titutorial.sysinfo");  

Usage

var systeminfo = require('titutorial.sysinfo');
var infoStr = systeminfo.getInfo(); //response would be string 
var infoObj = JSON.parse(infoStr);  //parsing string to JSON object
Ti.API.info("infoObj obj => " + infoObj);

Sample Response

var sampleResponse = {
     PROCESSOR: "ARMV7 Processor rev 1 (v71)",
     MODEL: "ST25i",
     RAM(mb): "368 mb",
     RAM(kb): "376920 kb",
     OS_VERSION: "2.3.7",
     API_LEVEL : "10",
     ABI : "armeabi-v7a",
     MANUFACTURER : "Sony Ericsson"
};

Android System info Module Example app

Module URL : https://marketplace.appcelerator.com/apps/5770?1412283645

Locking Android Orientation Mode

You can lock the orientation mode for Android in Titanium by successfully implementing the following steps :

By following the below steps you can lock the orientation mode throughout the app.

 1) Create a custom AndroidManifest.xml (copy this from original generated source
"build/android/AndroidManifest.xml")
2) Copy this on the created folder "platform/android/AndroidManifest.xml" at the top level of your project.(Inside your project root)

Locking Android Orientation Mode

3) Add this: android:screenOrientation="portrait" to all activities
4) Remove this: "|orientation" from all activities.

Here is my AndroidManifest.xml.


Here you can download the complete working project from my Github account Titanium-Android-Orientation

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