Android Release Notes
v1.0.2 v1.0.1 v1.0.0

Android Release Notes

v1.0.2

1.0.2.357

  • Fixed an issue that can occur if audio timestamps fall back in time when trying to capture a stream locally to mp4.
  • Added error checking in cases where video is not enabled to avoid an application crash.
  • Added functionality to demonstrate how you would publish an mp4 file as a stream from a different point in the file using setOffset(ms) method.
  • Included more error checking surrounding endBroadcast such that when the app is in the background it will not force close when brought back to active screen.
  • Added functionality for metadata sending and receiving capabilities.

v1.0.1

1.0.1.346

  • Fixed an issue that could cause an app failure when rendering overlay text with the WZText API class.
  • Fixed an issue causing audio-only streams to be broadcast with an improperly added video configuration.
  • Added addt'l error checking and logging to to trap improper use of the lower level encoder classes.
  • Added a warning to the log output if an WZRenderAPI.VideoFrameRenderer implementation attempts to call onWZVideoFrameRendererDraw() before onWZVideoFrameRendererInit() has been called.

1.0.1.340

  • Fixed an issue in WZMP4Writer that could cause a crash or indeterminate state when capturing an MP4 while streaming
  • Added a screenshot example to the sample app demonstrating the registration and usage of a video frame listener with the WZCameraView class

1.0.1.333

  • The WZMP4Writer and WZMP4Broadcaster classes now support writing and broadcasting audio tracks respectively.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause an app to hand if the server connection failed.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a crash if a camera device had been locked by another app.

1.0.1.318

  • Addition of a WZGLBroadcaster class to capture and stream from video sources other than the WZCameraView and simplify the process of integrating any OpenGL ES-based app.
  • Expanded constructors are now available for the WZGLES.EglEnv OpenGL ES utility class that can be used with a wide variety of OpenGL ES configurations
  • Expanded and updated the javadocs

1.0.1.292

SDK Updates

  • Improvements in the encoder I/O pipeline providing better performance and reliability in low bandwidth situations
  • Fixed an issue intermittently causing a crash when streaming was stopped
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the display to flash after streaming for an extended period of time
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the display to become out of sync if the device was rotated rapidly

1.0.1.259

SDK Updates

  • Fixed an issue causing WZCameraView.getCamera() to return null after an app returned to the foreground
  • WZCameraView.getStatus() has been deprecated in favor of WZCameraView.getPreviewStatus()
  • WZCameraView.isPaused() has been deprecated in favor of WZCameraView.isPreviewPaused()
  • The WZAudioDevice class now includes the methods getSamplingConfig() / setSamplingConfig(WZBroadcastConfig) to specify custom audio properties from the audio sampler.
  • Added the WZVideoFrameRenderer class to separate frame renderers from frame listeners (WZVideoFrameListener) enabling a simpler integration model for developing plugins

Sample App Updates

  • A new activity class has been added (BluetoothActivity) demonstrating the use of a Bluetooth mic as the audio capture device

1.0.1.248

  • Fixed an issue causing the aspect ratio of the camera preview to be displayed incorrectly on certain devices
  • Fixed an issue activating the camera on single-camera devices
  • When attempting to publish to a stream that is already active on a WSE server configured to disallow it, the error is now correctly reported.
  • Several methods of the WZCamera class that were previously protected are not public to aid development of apps wishing to access the camera through methods other than WZCameraView.

1.0.1.230

SDK Updates

  • Added a setAudioSource() method to the WZAudioDevice class for specifying a specific device as the source for the audio stream. See the documentation for Android's android.media.MediaRecorder.AudioSource class for a list of the values that can be specified.

Issues Fixed

  • Fixed a critical bug that was causing the camera preview to be resized to the video stream's frame size once a streaming broadcast was initiated.
  • Updated the API documentation to remove outdated references to the camera direction specifier also being used as the unique camera id
  • Improved error detection and reliability in the audio encoder framework
  • Fixed a bug in the sample app that occurred on single camera devices

Outstanding Issues

  • If the frame size of the camera preview has a different aspect ratio than the size of the WZCameraView containing the preview, the preview may not fill the view completely on certain devices.
  • If the frame size of the camera preview has a different aspect ratio than the frame size specified in the broadcast configuration, the aspect ratio of the video stream may be incorrect on certain devices.

A fix for both of these issues is in progress and will be available in the next SDK build to be released within the next couple of days.

1.0.1.219

  • Added support for adaptive bitrate control settings to the WZMediaConfig class.
  • Added support for displaying text overlays in the video stream via the WZText and WZTextManager classes.
  • Added setPreviewReadyListener to WZCameraView as a callback to be invoked when the camera preview display is fully initialized.

v1.0.0

1.0.0.177

  • Fixed an issue that could cause the camera preview to become unresponsive when streaming over a low bandwidth connection.
  • Improved compatibility with devices running Android APIs 19 thru 21.

1.0.0.172

  • Fixed an issue in the WZBitmap class causing a crash when returning to a paused activity

1.0.0.167

  • Fixed a problem causing the camera preview to not start on occasion after the device wakes up

1.0.0.163

  • Methods onResume() and onPause() have been added to the WZCameraView class that should be called from the corresponding Android activity lifecycle. See the CameraActivity and CameraActivityBase classes in the sample app for examples of their use.

  • A WZBitmap class has been added enabling the rendering of bitmap as overlays in the camera preview display.

  • An OverlayBitmapActivity has been added to the sample app demonstrating the use of the new WZBitmap features.

  • The WZRenderAPI.FrameListener interface has been renamed WZRenderAPI.VideoFrameListener.

  • A WZAudioDevice.AudioSampleListener interface has been added for building audio sample listener classes, replacing the SampleListener interface.

  • A WZAudioDevice.registerAudioSampleListener(...) method has been added for registering audio sample listener classes, replacing the registerFrameListener method.
  • Methods startAudioSampler() and stopAudioSampler() have been added to the WZAudioDevice class to enable sampling the audio input device when not streaming.
  • Note that the support audio sample rates are limited to 8000, 11025, 22050, 44100, and 48000. If another value is specified via WZMediaConfig.setAudioSampleRate the actual rate selected will be the next highest value.
  • An AudioMeterActivity has been added to the sample app demonstrating the use of the audio sample listener updates.

1.0.0.141

  • Fixed an issue causing the camera preview to always be cropped for frames sizes not matching the aspect ratio of the screen.
  • Fixed a crash that occur when stopping the broadcast before it has reached RUNNING state.

1.0.0.121

  • A bug was fixed that was causing the key frame interval to be calculated incorrectly for the video stream
  • A bug was fixed that prohibited errors from being reported correctly that occurred while streaming.
  • The WZCamera and WZCameraView classes were updated with improved error reporting capabilities. See the onResume() method of the CameraActivity class in the sample app for examples of their use.
    • The WZCamera now includes additional methods that can be used to detect if an error occurred when the SDK was attempting to open the camera:
      • boolean isAvailable()
      • getLastError()
      • WZStatus getStatus()
    • The WZCameraView now includes a method entitled getAvailableDeviceCameras() that can be used to return only those camera that can be successfully opened and accessed without error.
  • The WZError class now includes a method entitled getException() that will return any Java exception that was associated with the SDK error.
  • The toString() method for the WZMediaConfig and it's subclasses now returns a detailed listing of the configuration properties.
  • Two classes were added to the SDK for working with the video track in MP4 files (audio track support coming soon). See the MP4CaptureActivity and MP4BroadcastActivity classes in the sample app for examples of their use.
    • WZMP4Writer can be used to write an MP4 to local storage of the video stream
    • WZMP4Broadcaster can be used to stream the video from an MP4 file
  • Experimental support has been added for H.264 profiles and profile levels. See the onSettings method of CameraActivity class in the sample app for an example of querying the profiles and profile levels available.
    • The WZMediaConfig class now includes a profile level property for specifying the profile and profile levels (setVideoProfileLevel / getVideoProfileLevel).
    • int[] WZEncoderAPI.getProfiles() returns an array of H.264 profile identifiers supported by the current device's H.264 encoder.
    • WZProfileLevel[] WZEncoderAPI.getProfileLevels() returns an array of the WZProfileLevel instances describing the H.264 profiles and profile levels supported by the current device's H.264 encoder.

1.0.0.82

  • Fixed an SDK bug that could cause a crash when a device went to sleep.
  • Added getDefaultBroadcastConfig() method to WowzaGoCoder class
  • Added abstract base activity class GoCoderSDKActivity to the sample app to consolidate common Activity code

1.0.0.75

  • Added a subclass of the Android SurfaceTexture class named WZSurfaceTexture that provides a seamless API to render, encode, and stream OpenGL ES output.
  • Added an example of using the WZSurfaceTexture class to the sample app
  • Added an option to loop the playback and streaming to the sample app MP4 broadcast example
  • Added audio and video bitrate settings to the sample app preferences dialogs

1.0.0.65

Changes

  • In the WZStatusCallback interface, the following method signatures have been changed in order to reduce the chance of collision with identically named methods in other sources/libraries.

    • onSuccess is now named onWZStatus
    • onError is now named onWZError

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A BREAKING CHANGE, AND YOUR CODE WILL NEED TO BE UPDATED TO USE THESE NEW METHOD NAMES

  • The abstract WZRenderAPI class has been added for developing rendering plugins
  • The WZSurfaceRenderer class has been renamed to WZTextureRenderer
  • Rendering plugin registration methods registerRenderPlugin and unregisterRenderPlugin are available from the top-level WowzaGoCoder API.
  • The encoder-related and rendering-related classes have been placed in packages names encoder and render, respectively.
  • A package containing the gles utility classes from Grafika, Google's suite of OpenGL ES examples, have been added.
  • The default scaling mode is now WZMedia.FILL_FRAME
  • An example of saving the video stream to a local MP4 file (MP4CaptureActivity) has been added to the sample app

Issues fixed

  • Streaming portrait video is now supported

1.0.0.51

Changes

  • The sample app has been updated to manually check and query for required permissions per the new permissions model in 6.0 (Marshmallow)

Issues fixed

  • Fixed a bug setting the status of the broadcast status causing a periodic crash
  • Fixed an aspect ratio mis-calculation
  • Fixed a periodic crash on startup on Android 6.0
  • Fixed an issue that caused the front camera preview to be flipped
  • Fixed an issue causing auto focus to fail on some devices

Known issues

  • Video sent with the device in portrait orientation will be sent as landscape and letterboxes. This will be fixed in the next beta release.