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Parth Doshi
Parth Doshi

Reputation: 4208

Display video on Sony Smartwatch version 1

Long back I had bought the Sony smartwatch version 1. I am trying to display a layout containing the standard Android VideoView tag in XML.

Now, in smartwatch 1 the layout is changed using the showBitmap method. As seen from the ControlExtension sample, I have made my own layout containing only a VideoView that i want to display on the watch.

Basically, i want to know if the smartwatch version 1 can support the playing of a video. If not does the smartwatch 2 support it or is it not supported at all?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 871

Answers (1)

mldeveloper
mldeveloper

Reputation: 2238

There are no APIs supported for video playback on either watch. You can simulate video playback using a bitmap stream essentially by calling showBitmap() repeatedly but the bandwidth of video playback is limited by the Bluetooth connection, so playback will be choppy at best.

Upvotes: 1

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