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Android Apollo SDK

David Fong
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Introduction

The Apollo SDK provides media playback APIs to integrate a customized player into your Android TV application. APIs over the AIDL interface to query device information (such as serial numbers and MAC addresses) and basic HDMI EDID information are also included in the SDK release.

The Apollo SDK is built on top of Google's ExoPlayer. Amino has added an extension library (i.e., library-amino-extension) to support RTSP and multicast playback on ExoPlayer. Additionally, the Apollo SDK includes a customized version of Android MediaPlayer.

 
Compatible Build version Release Date Apollo SDK
25.6.2420.10R (Latest) Oct 2024 apollosdk-2024Q2.2-ENA.tgz

 

Summary

Library files in the format of .aar and .jar are placed in the "apollo_libs" folder of the root directory of the SDK ZIP file. The table below shows the components of the software included in the library files:

 

Apollo SDK Library File Software Component
playerwrapper-library-amino*.aar Customized ExoPlayer , MediaPlayer
device-aidl-interfaces*.jar Device Info
hdmi-aidl-interfaces*.jar HDMI Info

 

The table below shows the types of streams that are supported by each player:

 

Stream/Media Type

Customized ExoPlayer

MediaPlayer

Multicast

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RTSP

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RTSP Interleaved

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HLS

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DASH

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Local media files

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Media file over HTTP

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DVB Subtitle

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Close Captions

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Teletext

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For the Video / Audio codec supported. Please refer to the official document of exoplayer and mediaplayer.

 
The table below shows the list of device info that can be obtained by the Device AIDL library :
 
 
Device Information Method Description
Hardware Model getDeviceHardwareModel() The hardware model of the device
Serial Number getDeviceSerialNumber() The Serial number of the device
Ethernet Mac Address getEthernetMacAddress() The Mac Address of the Ethernet port interface
Wlan Mac Address getWlanMacAddress() The Mac Address of the Wireless LAN interface
Soc ChipID getSocChipId() An unique SoC ChipID of the device
Device Parameters getDeviceParameter() The device parameters set on the device
Application Parameters ( get ) getApplicatonParameter() The private parameter for custom application ( GET )
Application Parameters ( set ) setApplicationParameter() The private parameter for custom application ( SET )
 
The table below shows the list of HDMI info that can be obtained by the HDMI AIDL library :
 
HDMI Information Parcelable object Description
TV Manufacturer Name HdmiEdidInfo.manufacturer The manufacturer name of the TV connected on HDMI
TV production Name HdmiEdidInfo.productName The production name of the TV connected on HDMI
Active port number HdmiEdidInfo.portNumber The port number of the TV which is actively connected on HDMI
 

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