If you've updated to
PhoneGap 1.5.0 which is part of our move to the
Apache Cordova name and the next step in becoming an official
Apache project you've probably noticed a number of plugins have broken. The biggest problem is that a lot of Plugins used
this.ctx as an Android Context. Unfortunately due to some internal code changes
this.ctx is no longer a Context. Now you have to call
this.ctx.getContext(). So I spent sometime updating the
ChildBrowser,
FtpClient,
TTS and
VideoPlayer plugins so they would work smoothly with PhoneGap/Cordova 1.5.0.
Also, thanks to some code submitted by
Stephanie Sherriff (
ssherriff on GitHub) the VideoPlayer plugin can now play files from your Android assets folder. The syntax is pretty simple as well.
window.plugins.videoPlayer.play("file:///android_asset/www/path/to/my/video.mp4");
21 comments:
Simon do you know if people have had any success using your Video plugin with PhoneGap Build? I have it working in Cordova 1.5 on HTC Evo, but I want to deploy to other platforms. In reviewing the process I see that ChildBrowser is the only supported plugin.
If it is supported do you know the ?
Thank you.
@Michael,
You'll have to request for them to add it:
http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/products/nitobi_phonegap_build?from_gsfn=true
On the matter of cross-platform compatibility, how do you achieve this if you use platform specific plugins?
On a separate note is there inApp purchase plugin for Android? There's plugin here https://github.com/luoihoc/CallbackBillingPlugin but haven't been updated for 5 months.
@Serhiy Kolesnyk
Well, the native side has to be implemented in a different language so there isn't much re-use there but you can use the same JavaScript which is how you make things cross platform. Treat the plugin as a black box with the JavaScript as it's public API.
Simon,
Do you know how to implement CB openExternal on Windows Phone? I have used the plugin files on GitHub. I had to change some stuff from PhoneGap to Cordova and now I'm at least getting it to build and open with showWebPage.
Sorry Michael, I do not. I have not touched Windows Phone development at this point.
You and 98% of the mobile development world.
It was pretty simple to get it all going, but have gotten stuck with openExternal.
hi Simon ,I use the filetransfer download a mp3(audio) file on ios ,and the callback is successful ,however the downloaded mp3 file can't be played back; do u know why ?
I use the full path directory ; like
/var/mobile/.../documents/xxx.mp3 .
the music file packaged in www is work fine。
thanks
@juxiang peng
Actually, I have no idea. I don't work with iOS that much.
Hi Simon,
VideoPlayer Plugin On Android.If I Press One Button after video Playing then after how I reback to my screen.Please help me..
Example Video play full screen If i touch the screen there Done button i press after goto previous screen
I am very to see the Plugin now can play videos from the assets folder. It is a very great improvement.
Just a question: Is there a way to place the player screen into a "div" or something like that, instead of see the video on fullscreen?
@Gabriel Mendez
Sorry, there is no way to embed the video into a div or video tag right now.
HI Simon,
I've installed your videoplay plugin as noted but when I test iton my android I get a blank page (no errors)so I wonder if I installed it wrong or used the wrong code.
Do you have a sample page could look at?
@Dave Armstrong
You'll need to change the reference to phonegap.js but here is a quick example:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/887989/video.html
hi Simon , i have used in-app purchase plugin for android , but its show me "item not found", i have provided the key, change salt, provide productID ...
can you tell me any reason ???
thanks
@zonaib siddiqui
Sorry, I did not write and have never used that plugin.
Hey Simon,
@first, very nice Plugin :)
But i always get an error, when i try to start a video. Logcat says: Path or file not found...
...and the path is definitly correct and the video is there.
By the way, i developing on android 3.2 and cordova 2.2
Thanks a lot!
@Michael Steinbacher
Need more info.
... i try to play a video from the assets (no copy to the sdcard). To do this i have a html video tag with a onclick method. When i add a source tag, my app tries to play it, with the reported error.
But when i remove the source tag, it seems to do nothing.
The play method should executes your plugin.
-> window.plugins.VideoPlayer.play("file:///android_asset/video/3e02.mp4");
...need more Infos?
thanks
@Michael Steinbacher
Yeah, the output from "adb logcat" would help. Not sure why you are using the video source tag as that is just going to confuse everything. Either use the video tag or the VideoPlayer plugin. However, the video tag doesn't work super great and does not play videos from the assets folder.
Ok, now it works :D
... i created an a href tag to an empty page, where i call your plugin after device ready.
Thanks for your help anyway.
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