Development on the VMIX Mobile Video SDK continues to steam ahead — today we’re launching the full second version of the SDK! The release in a nutshell … The Mobile Video SDK now supports app development for Google Android-based devices. This includes release of an Android Demo App that developers can use to build on and demonstrate video-powered app development for the Android platform. New upload capabilities have been added for iPhone that allows mobile end users to upload video to a VMIX account and developers to engage audiences more effectively.

For details on the release, please read on below!
 

VMIX Adds Android Support to Mobile Video SDK

Open-source Offering Expedites Android, iPad and iPhone App Development

 
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – July 29, 2010 – VMIX (www.vmix.com), the leading online video platform provider, today announced the extension of its open-source Mobile Video SDK to support application development for Google Android-based devices.

The VMIX Mobile Video SDK speeds development for Android devices, as well as for Apple’s iPad and iPhone, using an open-source library that extends media-framework APIs in the native device SDKs.

VMIX also announced the addition of video-upload functionality for its iPhone development kit, and will extend this new feature to the Android platform by August.

“We continue to add components to our mobile SDK that make it very easy for app developers to harness the power of video quickly,” said Greg Kostello, Co-founder and CTO at VMIX.

“We now offer SDK tools and templates for Android, iPhone and iPad, and we’ll continue rolling out features for each of these device types, based on feedback and needs from our development community.”

Initial Android support in the VMIX SDK includes the ability to pull and display video thumbnails, titles and descriptions, as well as stream video over Wi-Fi and wireless networks. Developers can present videos individually or organized by category in a video-gallery style application.

“As with for iPhone and iPad, we’re including an Android video-gallery sample app, which lets developers substitute their clients’ own videos and preferences in minutes,” said Lei Pan, Senior Director of Engineering at VMIX. “This demonstrates how easily organizations can add dynamic content to the apps they create for the Android user community.”

Pan added that the new video-upload capability for iPhone represents significant value for developers. “Mobile upload functions make managing, publishing and sharing video so much easier and give developers the means to engage audiences more actively with video.”

For more information on VMIX’s Mobile Video SDK and the Android, iPad and iPhone demo applications, visit: http://www.vmix.com/mobile-sdk.php.

About VMIX

VMIX Media Inc., (www.vmix.com) is a leading provider of online video and media management solutions. The company is the trusted partner of news, entertainment and enterprise companies including NASA, ESPN, Raycom Media, Penguin Books, The McClatchy Company, Toyota-Scion, ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, and Post Newsweek Television Stations.

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For more information, contact:

VMIX
Bill Curci, 858-792-8649 x169
bill@vmix.com