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Android

Posted by John Weland
John Weland
42,478 Points

Compiling gStreamer into Android Studio for use in Apps

So I have been tasked with another Android App this one is a video chat client, something like Skype™. Our PC client uses gStreamer which can be found here

I've searched high-and-low and followed every tutorial I could thing of for getting the latest version of gStreamer compired and included in Android Studio, so that I can build this app and make calls to gStreamer when needed. So far no luck, maybe I am just not understanding the tutorials or maybe this is something different completely. I had hoped this would be as easy as adding a "compile 'com.example.gstreamer-v1.6.0' " in gradle.

Any help on the situation is greatly appreciated.

1 Answer

Andrew Sheragy
Andrew Sheragy
16,379 Points

I have not done this with gradle yet, or used gStreamer but most or all java libraries are a set of .jar files. For previous projects I would copy the required files to a lib or libs directory in your source code folders, I would lookup exact path relative to the project root before attempting this.

Then you add this to gradle

compile files('libs/<name of gstreamer library file>.jar')

This was the standard way of doing things before the IDE had the ability to download various libraries by a 1 line command in a file.