NOVA is an open source video player for Android. It consists in a fork of the original Archos Video Player Community Edition that is hosted here: https://github.com/archos-sa/aos-AVP intended to support new features.
This is the entry point repo. It purpose is to provide the manifest to fetch all needed git repos with sources and then bootstrap the build environment.
More interesting sources can be found there:
- Video https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-Video
- MediaLib https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-MediaLib
- FileCoreLibrary https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-FileCoreLibrary
- avos https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-avos
For the full list, please look at this manifest https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP/default.xml
Get the repo tool (https://source.android.com/source/downloading), then type:
mkdir aos; cd aos
repo init -u https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP
repo sync -j4
make
Alternatively for those not under Linux with a properly installed Android SDK/NDK, you can launch the build for one of the flavors of the video player through:
cd Video
./gradlew assembleCommunityLeanbackNoamazonPrivlibs
Scraping and scrobbling features rely on external services such as TMDb (https://www.themoviedb.org/), TheTVDB (http://thetvdb.com/) and Trakt (https://trakt.tv).
In order to enable NOVA video player to perform these tasks you need to register to this services and enable the API and inject the corresponding keys inside the following files: MediaLib/src/community/res/values/donottranslate.xml replacing the fake values below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<string name="tvdb_api_key">0123456789ABCDEF</string>
<string name="tmdb_api_key">0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef</string>
<string name="trakt_api_key">0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef</string>
<string name="trakt_api_secret">0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef</string>
</resources>
Please note that enabling TheTVDB API registration can be completed following this link: https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=apiregister
To create a Trakt api, first register to trakt then add a new app https://trakt.tv/oauth/applications
Redirect URI should be http://localhost and be aware to grant all permissions.