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HTTP Live Streaming Cookbook Updated!

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Creating technically seamless applications has always been a pretty tough task in terms of time and complexity. Moreover, helpful data is scattered across multiple sources. This also applies to iOS video applications development. In this post, we have aggregated the most vital and helpful information on efficient use of all the features of HTTP Live Streaming, with detailed data source list. These materials are prerequisite to anyone who intends to ensure high quality of viewing experience. Continue reading →

Flash Player 11.4 and AIR 3.4 Now Released!

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Recently, Adobe announced its new releases of the Flash Player and AIR products, offering a number of new fascinating features:

  • More video cards supported by Stage3D
  • Concurrency (ActionScript Workers)
  • Support of iOS Push Notifications in AIR
  • Direct publishing of AIR apps to iOS
  • Support for iOS 5.1 SDK
  • Carbon APIs no longer supported by AIR
  • Compressed textures with an ATF alpha channel
  • Ambient AudioPlaybackMode
  • StageVideo.attachCamera
  • Camera.copyToByteArray/Camera.copyToVector
  • LZMA support for ByteArray

Below you can find out some details of the new features. Continue reading →

iOS Player with VAST Video Ad Support

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Ads based monetization has been widely adopted by the developers of free-of-charge iOS applications. To support banner ads in such applications, Apple offers a ready solution. However if your application is built around a video player, you may prefer inline ads shown in video pauses. As far as we know, no widely used free solution yet exists for this. In this post, we’ll tell you how you can easily add video ads to your app. For this purpose, you’ll have to add our free iOS VAST Player library to the OpenX ad server. Continue reading →

Overviewing Best Practices in iOS Application Development

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It is usually said, that the most important driver behind Apple’s mobile devices popularity is its maximum attention to detail. Small, seemingly insignificant details make up product’s appeal for the end user. But to develop a good application, it is not sufficient to give heed to detail at the user interface level. You need to be aware of and comply with the best practices at all stages of development, from design to support. This paper gives an overview of such best practices presented both by Apple and by independent iOS developers. Continue reading →

Handling Camera in iOS Applications

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In the latest iOS based devices, camera is a major driver of popularity of these devices. The capability to capture video and encode it to H.264 High Definition on the hardware level that emerged in iPhone 4, has been accepted enthusiastically by both users and developers of new applications. Continuing our series dedicated to AV Foundation and the related frameworks, in this post we will discuss how to capture a stream from the camera and how to process, save and distribute it. Continue reading →

Video Playback in iOS Applications

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Apple iOS mobile devices have deservedly won universal popularity among the customers. Every Apple’s event is followed with a keen interest as the people expect the emergence of new functionality and improvement of existing features. But the common users can only skim the surface, assessing the externals of the product. Much more is visible to the developers. Of all the four-day WWDC event, the public attention has been given to the keynote presentation only, giving an overview of all the major innovations. All the other presentations, totaling to about one hundred, have been dedicated to the developers. From this ratio, we can estimate the hidden mass of the iceberg, which is no less fascinating than its tip. Starting a series of posts on iOS based development, we will tell you of the Apple devices built-in frameworks to support online video handling. Continue reading →