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.