aviewdevs / aview

Unofficial ABC iview client for Android

This is an unofficial ABC iview client for Android. As such it may break in unexpected and odd ways as the ABC update, upgrade or maintain their official iview service and clients.

HTTP Live Streaming

The ios iview client uses HTTP Live Streaming, which has some the ability to adjust the quality depending on the quality of the network connection (and the API for it is much lighter weight). Unfortunately the ABC haven't quite implemented it to the specification, so most of their videos won't play all the way through on Android devices. The option can be enabled in the settings menu if you're game though.

Building

1. Install Maven, eg:

    $ sudo apt-get install maven
   

2. Install the Android SDK

3. Download at least Android 4.3 and the Android support JAR through the SDK manager.

4. Install the Android maven artefacts using the Maven Android SDK Deployer, eg:

    $ ANDROID_HOME=/path/to/android/sdk; export ANDROID_HOME
    $ mkdir ~/devel && pushd ~/devel
    $ git clone https://github.com/mosabua/maven-android-sdk-deployer.git
    $ cd maven-android-sdk-deployer
    $ mvn clean install -P4.3
    $ cd extras
    $ mvn clean install -N
    $ cd compatibility-v4
    $ mvn clean install
    $ popd
   

5. Then run mvn package in the parent aview directory

Notes

Note that all ABC passwords and https URLs have been omitted from the repository. If you want to use your build against the official ABC servers you'll need to figure these out for yourself.

aview's Issues

aview not working after firmware update

Samsung note recent firmware upgrade aview turns error at all times

The play store doesn't make it available in China

I'm travelling in China, and the official ABC apps are all unavailable. This looked really promising, but it's also unavailable on the play store.

Could you please publish the apk on github as well? I don't think releasing it on the play store precludes releases elsewhere.

Error: An error has occured

This message occurs immediately after startup of aview and everytime a different category is selected within aview ie Featured, Recent, Last Chance etc. On selecting a new category, aview appears to poll the ABC website before the error message appears. Not able to identify any specific app update that may have caused this error, it seems to have just appeared out off the blue. I'm currently running Jellybean 4.1.2 on a Bauhm (Aldi) 9.7" tablet. The app ran fine last week. BTW have rebooted and reinstalled aview with reboot, but without success.
Hope this can be fixed. aview is one of my favourite apps.
Cheers

PS Tried accessing aview again and received same error message, however, this time I also tried doing a search ( catalyst ) and aview found it, showed the thumbnails on screen, let me select one and play it, no errors! But selecting anything from the left side menu after that reproduced the error message again.

Chrome Cast Support

You mentioned a stack of planned developments in your Google play listing, such as support for Google tv and Android tv sticks, cloud syncing of playlists, better resolution and tablet support. One thing I would love is Chrome cast support (especially as the resolution improves).

Also, if you are incurring hosting costs etc is there somewhere we can donate to help out. I would be happy to provide some assistance given the quality of the work you have undertaken.

Can't play this video error.

Has been working fine the past few days but suddenly I get an error saying "Can't play this video" on any that I try to play. This is what is outputted in adb logcat:

D/MediaPlayer( 3371): Couldn't open file on client side, trying server side
I/AwesomePlayer( 125): setDataSource_l(URL suppressed)
I/ActivityManager( 482): Displayed com.github.aview.app/.EpisodeActivity_: +101
ms
I/ChromiumHTTPDataSourceSupport( 125): Server responded with http status 500
I/AwesomePlayer( 125): mConnectingDataSource->connect() returned -1004
E/MediaPlayer( 3371): error (1, -1004)
E/MediaPlayer( 3371): Error (1,-1004)
D/VideoView( 3371): Error: 1,-1004

Hope this helps, tried with my nexus 7 on stock android 4.4.

Not working on 4.3 SGN

I have hoping someone would put together an app like this but unfortunately it does not work. On start I get "An error has occured". I noticed there does not appear to be any signs of data transfer on the 3G or Wi-Fi icon in the notification bar.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus running stock 4.3, build JWR66R.

aveiw

The abc aview was working fine for a while but now its saying error accored :(

Sorry, iview is no longer available on this device

A graphic with this message pointing to a 1min video talking about "no longer feasible to offer the service" is appearing on every screen of the app.
Also noticed aView doesn't have a presence on Google Playstore anymore.
Hope this doesn't mean what I think it does.
Hadn't been on the app for a couple of weeks, so only noticed this problem last week.
Cheers

samsung tab2 10.1 error message

Aview initially worked 7 days ago. We now receive error code message when opening aview. We note that in google store other samsjng tab 2 users are also experiencing same error code msg.

An error has occured

Getting this error message all the time for the past few days. Previously worked flawlessly. Using a ifive mini3 running a 4.4.2 ROM.