{"id":2961,"date":"2015-06-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwplayer.com\/improving-hls-android-sdk-1-2\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:28:26","slug":"improving-hls-android-sdk-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwplayer.com\/blog\/improving-hls-android-sdk-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving HLS on Android &#8211; JW Player SDK for Android 1.2 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today we are releasing version 1.2 of the JW Player SDK for Android. This version focuses on improvements in performance, flexibility, stability, and adds the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Faster HLS Video Startup. 5x faster adaptive HLS video startup with minimal buffering.<\/li>\n<li>Improved HLS playback performance.<\/li>\n<li>Second-precise seeking<\/li>\n<li>Improved support for advanced HLS features, such as discontinuities<\/li>\n<li>Takes the current CPU load into account when determining which HLS stream variant to play<\/li>\n<li>Improved bandwidth detection heuristics for faster adaptivity and optimal resolutions<\/li>\n<li>Show\/hide player control bar. \u00a0Added an API method for showing and hiding the media player control bar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How Much Faster? A Side-by-side Comparison<\/h2>\n<p>The following \u201cHLS Startup Speed\u201d video compares the native Android Media Player to our JW Player using the latest JW Player SDK for Android 1.2 version.<\/p>\n<h6>The native Android Media Player is playing in the Google Chrome browser app v.43 with the video <a href=\"http:\/\/demo.jwplayer.com\/henry\/sdk\/native-amp\/\">embedded<\/a> using the HTML5 \u201cvideo\u201d tag.<\/h6>\n<p>JW Player is playing in our JW Player Android Demo app v.1.2 using the JW Player SDK for Android v.1.2.<\/p>\n<p>Both apps are playing the same <a href=\"http:\/\/playertest.longtailvideo.com\/adaptive\/bipbop\/gear4\/prog_index.m3u8\">HLS video<\/a> on the Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900H with Android 5.0; the Wi-Fi bandwidth was throttled using Charles Web Debugging Proxy v.3.10.1 to the standard 3G (1024 kbps) setting.<\/p>\n<h2>Tell Me More.<\/h2>\n<p>This 1.2 release also contains a number of bug fixes (details are included in the readme.txt file contained in the SDK download package), so we encourage all customers to upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an existing JW Player SDK for Android customer, you can always sign in to your <a href=\"https:\/\/account.jwplayer.com\/\">JW Player Dashboard<\/a> and download the latest SDK version from your Account tab. \u00a0Otherwise, if you\u2019d like more information to purchase or get a free trial of our SDKs, please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwplayer.com\/products\/mobile-sdk\/\">Mobile SDK<\/a> page or contact our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwplayer.com\/contact-us\/\">sales team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your feedback is welcome and encouraged as we continue to improve and enhance the JW Player SDK for Android with regular feature and performance updates!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lee,<\/p>\n<p>Product Manager, Mobile Devices<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we are releasing version 1.2 of the JW Player SDK for Android. 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