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Prerequisites and Dependencies

Prerequisites

The following development tools are required; see Recommended tool versions below.

You also need a device running Android 5.0 (Lollipop) or higher. The app requires a physical Android device with debugging enabled per Android guidelines (http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html). It will not work on an emulator.

Dependencies

The table below lists the external library dependencies for integrating the SDK and its features. Dependencies for other features are listed under the relevant feature description.

Dependency

Version

Required for

androidx.appcompat:appcompat 

1.4.1

Android X general support 

com.google.guava:guava 

31.0.1-android 

Google Java Core Libraries 

androidx.room:room-runtime 

2.4.1

Offline playback feature

com.google.protobuf:protobuf-lite 

3.0.1 

Handling Widevine-encrypted content 

com.google.ads.interactivemedia.v3:interactivemedia 

3.26.0 

Playing Google IMA ads 

com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier 

18.0.1

Playing Google IMA ads 

insight-agent 

1.3.1

NAGRA Insight agent for collecting statistics. Provided with the CONNECT Player package

Build configuration

To build an application with this SDK, the following have to be configured in your Gradle file(s):

Configuration item 

Configuration value 

compileSdkVersion

32 or higher

minSdkVersion

21 or higher 

Recommended tool versions

Tool

Recommended version

Java JDK

17

Gradle

7.3.2

Android Gradle Plugin

7.0.4

Open-source usage

The following third-party software is used and embedded within the CONNECT Player SDK 5 for Android.

Open-source

Version

Licence

Website

exo-player

2.16.1

Apache V2.0

https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/release-v2/LICENSE

Java-side open-source libraries

protobuf-lite

3.0.1

MIT

https://github.com/elderapo/protobuf-lite/blob/master/LICENSE

guava

31.0.1-android

Apache V2.0

https://github.com/google/guava/blob/master/LICENSE

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