{"id":483,"date":"2007-11-12T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T02:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/android-multimedia-sdk\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T02:40:34","slug":"android-multimedia-sdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/android-multimedia-sdk\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Multimedia SDK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled their mighty <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/\">Android platform SDK today<\/a>. It apparently based uses that phone-based flavor of Java. An ergonomic Eclipse-based development environment and a software emulator are both provided for your experimentation.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/eggs\/images\/android-logo.gif\" alt=\"Android logo\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s nice. But let&#8217;s cut to what really matters &#8212; multimedia. The SDK specifies the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/toolbox\/apis\/media.html\">Media API<\/a> along with its <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/reference\/android\/media\/MediaPlayer.html\">MediaPlayer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/reference\/android\/media\/MediaRecorder.html\">MediaRecorder<\/a> APIs. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/reference\/android\/media\/MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder.html\">AudioEncoder class<\/a>, audio can be encoded to <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=AMR-NB\">AMR-NB<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/reference\/android\/media\/MediaRecorder.VideoEncoder.html\">VideoEncoder class<\/a> specifies H.263, H.264, and MPEG-4 SP. All pretty standard for a mobile application, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Who handles the multimedia heavy lifting? <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/android-multimedia\/#comment-87870\">Vitor<\/a> noticed this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packetvideo.com\/press_releases\/11_05_2007.html\">press release<\/a> and associated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packetvideo.com\/products\/core\/technology.html\">fluffy overview<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packetvideo.com\/index.html\">PacketVideo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Java, though, and that means obfuscated Java bytecode programs. Time for a renaissance for my <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/pre\/re-retroguard.html\">Java de-obfuscator<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has unveiled their mighty Android platform SDK today. It apparently based uses that phone-based flavor of Java. An ergonomic Eclipse-based development environment and a software emulator are both provided for your experimentation. That&#8217;s nice. But let&#8217;s cut to what really matters &#8212; multimedia. The SDK specifies the Media API along with its MediaPlayer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[62,61],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-java","category-multimedia-presswatch","tag-android-platform","tag-gphone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}