Video cache support for Android

Why AndroidVideoCache?

Because there is no sense to download video a lot of times while streaming! AndroidVideoCache allows to add caching support to your VideoView/MediaPlayer, ExoPlayer or any another player with help of single line!

Features

• caching to disk during streaming;
• offline work with cached resources;
• partial loading;
• cache limits (max cache size, max files count);
• multiple clients for same url.

Note AndroidVideoCache works only with direct urls to media file, it doesn't support any streaming technology like DASH, SmoothStreaming, HLS.

How to use?

Just add dependency (AndroidVideoCache is available in jcenter):

repositories {
    jcenter()
}
dependencies {
    compile 'com.danikula:videocache:2.3.4'
}

and use url from proxy instead of original url for adding caching:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    HttpProxyCacheServer proxy = getProxy();
    String proxyUrl = proxy.getProxyUrl(VIDEO_URL);
    videoView.setVideoPath(proxyUrl);
}

private HttpProxyCacheServer getProxy() {
    // should return single instance of HttpProxyCacheServer shared for whole app.
}

To guarantee normal work you should use single instance of HttpProxyCacheServer for whole app. For example you can store shared proxy in your Application:

public class App extends Application {

    private HttpProxyCacheServer proxy;

    public static HttpProxyCacheServer getProxy(Context context) {
        App app = (App) context.getApplicationContext();
        return app.proxy == null ? (app.proxy = app.newProxy()) : app.proxy;
    }

    private HttpProxyCacheServer newProxy() {
        return new HttpProxyCacheServer(this);
    }
}

or use simple factory. More preferable way is use some dependency injector like Dagger.

By default HttpProxyCacheServer uses 512Mb for caching files. You can change this value:

private HttpProxyCacheServer newProxy() {
    return new HttpProxyCacheServer.Builder(this)
            .maxCacheSize(1024 * 1024 * 1024)       // 1 Gb for cache
            .build();
}

or can limit total count of files in cache:

private HttpProxyCacheServer newProxy() {
    return new HttpProxyCacheServer.Builder(this)
            .maxCacheFilesCount(20)
            .build();
}

See sample app for details.

Whats new

See Release Notes here

Code contributions

If it's a feature that you think would need to be discussed please open an issue first, otherwise, you can follow this process:

1. Fork the project
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b my_branch)
3. Push your changes to your new branch (git push origin my_branch)
4. Initiate a pull request on github
5. Your pull request will be reviewed and hopefully merged :)

Where published?

Here

Questions?

danikula@gmail.com

License

Copyright 2014-2015 Alexey Danilov

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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