CONNECT Player SDK 5 for Android Documentation

The CONNECT Player SDK 5 for Android enables you to embed the player within an existing or new native Java or Kotlin application. The SDK wraps and extends the media player API, providing a similar interface to the Android Video view.

Supported versions and formats

Supported OS Versions	Adaptive Streaming Format	DRM	Audio/Video Container	Encrypt Method	Block/Cypher
Android 5.x (Lollipop) onwards	DASH	Widevine PlayReady	ISOBMFF/F-MP4	CENC	AES 128 CTR
Android 5.x (Lollipop) onwards	HLS	PRM	MPEG2-TS	AES 128	AES 128 CBC

Supported audio and video codecs

Video codec	Audio codec	Comments
H.264	AAC-LC HE-AAC
H.265	AAC-LC HE-AAC	Only where the hardware supports H.265 decoding

SDK file contents

NAGRA supplies two variants of the SDK library, one for Multi-DRM and another with additional support for NAGRA PRM.

Multi-DRM SDK

The Multi-DRM version of the Android SDK 5 package contains the following files:

opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-example-code.zip
This contains code examples to demonstrate the features of the CONNECT Player; see the Android SDK 5 Example Code Quick Start guide.
opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-sdk-integration.aar
This file is used for integration activities and is necessary to produce debug logs from the native part of the application; see the Android SDK 5 Integration Guide: Creating the project.
opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-sdk-production.aar
This file replaces the integration version when the application is ready to be deployed; see the Android SDK 5 Integration Guide: Building the production version.

NAGRA PRM SDK

If you have requested Playback of PRM encrypted content (Software PRM) support, PRM versions of the above files will be supplied:

opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-example-code-prm.zip
This contains code examples to demonstrate the PRM features of the CONNECT Player; see the PRM Example Code Quick Start guide.
opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-sdk-prm-integration.aar
This file is used for integration activities.
opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-sdk-prm-production.aar
This file replaces the integration version when the application is ready to be deployed.

The PRM Operational Vault file opvault.json is provided separately.

Additional files

The following files are also typically provided:

opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-example-code-kotlin.zip
This contains Kotlin code examples of the CONNECT Player; see the Kotlin Example Code Quick Start guide.
opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-example-code-upi.zip
This contains code examples to demonstrate the features of the CONNECT Player using the Unified Player Interface (UPI).
opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-javadoc.zip
This contains the API files; see Android SDK 5 APIs.
opy-sdk-android-5.22.x.x-insight-agent.aar
This is an additional library for reporting statistics to an Insight server; see Insight analytics.