Getting started with Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK

This article includes an introduction to the core features of the Wowza Flowplayer SDK iOS and lists all the requirements for adding the SDK into an iOS Project. It assumes that you have basic understanding of iOS development and that you are familiar with Xcode and Swift.

The Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK is a native media player. It's written entirely in Swift and provides an easy-to-use API that enables developers to create beautiful iOS applications that play audio and video both locally and over the Internet.

The Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK uses AVPlayer as its core and, therefore, takes advantage of all its powerful features. The SDK supports adaptive streaming technologies such as HLS, as well as the most popular single container formats, such as MP4, MP3, AVI, and several more.

Our example apps are available open source on Github and it will help you better understand how to integrate the Wowza Flowplayer SDK iOS into your project.

Supported features

Some of the most important features of the Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK include:

• HLS, MP4, MP3, AVI formats.
• Full screen playback and configurable device orientation management .
• Callbacks for monitoring a wide range of player events .
• IMA3 based VAST and VMAP ads .
• Customizable user interface .

Prerequisites

To be able to compile and run your application using the Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK, the following few requirements need to be met:

Minimum iOS version

The Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK is available to devices running iOS version 12.0+.

Dependencies

The Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK depends on the following two dependencies:

• Rollbar : 1.12.14
• Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) : 3.14.5

Add the SDK to your project

Once you have met all the prerequisites, you are ready to add the Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK to your project and start developing. You can add the SDK using CocoaPods or via manual setup.

CocoaPods setup

1. Add Flowplayer together with its dependencies to your Podfile :
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   pod 'Flowplayer', '~> 3.4.0'

2. To finalize, execute pod install .

Manual setup

1. Download the binary framework of Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK from here .
2. As mentioned earlier, the Wowza Flowplayer iOS SDK depends on Rollbar and Google IMA which you need to download as well.
3. Next, you need to link and embed the frameworks into your target:
   • Flowplayer (Main framework)
   • FlowplayerCore (Supporting framework)
   • Google IMA
   • Rollbar
4. Build your project.

Your target's Build Phases should look similar to this:

Update Info.plist

In your target's Info.plist file, add a new string with the key FlowplayerAccessToken and set the value to your Wowza Flowplayer access token to enable the player to play content.