Android SDK

• New – Option to use Hardware Acceleration for subscribing, to support 4K and 360° streams

• New – Decoupling Shared Objects: Mobile (Note requires server min version 6.0.0)

• New – ABR subscriber support via autopscaling transcoding (Note requires server min version 6.0.0) and Growth Pro for Transcoding via autoscaling

• API Additions:

  • R5Stream: play:streamName useHardwareAcceleration:flag
  • R5Stream: play:streamName withForcedRGBDecode:flag
  • R5VideoView: setRenderer(R5VideoViewRenderer)
  • R5VideoView: getRenderer()
  • R5VideoViewRenderer (new class)

• API Changes:

  • JNI: on_draw_frame
  • JNI: getHWAccelBytes
  • R5Stream: play:streamName

streaming-android updates:

• New Test: Subscribe – Hardware Acceleration
• New Test: Subscribe – Renderer RGB
• New Test: Publish – Stream Manager Transcoder
• New Test: Subscribe – Stream Manager Transcoder
• New Test: Shared Object – Streamless
• New Test: Publish – Camera Swap & Orientation