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 assembleReleasefromLibVLCSharp.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.