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w3bshark
w3bshark

Reputation: 2749

Why doesn't the Android Google Cardboard SDK offer the ability to load videos from urls into a VRVideoView widget?

The iOS Cardboard SDK offers the ability to load videos from URLs. Whereas the Android Cardboard SDK requires that you download the entire video to the device before loading the video. I'm confused as to why Google would have a more convenient API for iOS rather than Android.

Is there a reason why the Android SDK's VRVideoView API doesn't offer a 'loadFromUrl' method like the iOS SDK?

iOS: https://developers.google.com/cardboard/ios/reference/interface_g_c_s_video_view.html#method-detail

Android: https://developers.google.com/cardboard/android/latest/reference/com/google/vrtoolkit/cardboard/widgets/video/VrVideoView.html#public-methods_2

Upvotes: 2

Views: 614

Answers (1)

Balint Miklos
Balint Miklos

Reputation: 21

I didn't try it but according to https://github.com/googlevr/gvr-android-sdk/issues/65 they added the support for remote URLs in v0.8.

Upvotes: 2

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