Calling Android users

[John Forrister]

Hello GTD Connect members,

For those of you with Android devices, we would appreciate your feedback about how the audio and video content works for you. Please try out this link, and any other audio/video content. If you would be so kind as to post as a reply to this thread, letting us know how the content works on your Android device, especially any issues or problems. Also, please include which version of the Android operating system you are running.

http://www.davidco.com/connect/video.php?titleid=179&trackid=642

Thanks much. This will help us to improve our support for Android users.

Best,
John

 

[pmcardle]

Does not work on Droid Bionic running Andriod 2.3.4

I tried the link for you on my Droid. It says video cannot be played. Thanks.

 

[tawaters]

Calling All Android users

I also get "Sorry, this video cannot be played" on my HTC EVO with Android version 2.3.5

Tom

 

[John Forrister]

Sample video for Android users

Thanks for the feedback so far. For those of you who are using Android 2.x, please try these two links and let us know if your Android will play:
1. Youtube clips such as
http://www.youtube.com/gtd

2. JWPlayer demo
http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/

Best,
John

 

[Guest]

Specifically...

using Android 2.x

Specifically interested in Android 2.2 and above (but not 3 or 4).

 

[tawaters]

Sample Video

Yes to both YouTube & JWPlayer (HTC EVO Android version 2.3.5 = Gingerbread)

Tom

 

[PaulK]

Another yes to both on Android 2.3.6 Motorola Defy+

 

[TesTeq]

Yes to both on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" (GT-P1000) Android 2.2.

Yes to both on Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" (GT-P1000) Android 2.2, kernel 2.6.32.9, version FROYO.XWJJ7 (not updated or upgraded after purchase).

 

[John Forrister]

Thanks for the responses. Very helpful to us.

 

[BjornLjunggren]

Android 2.2

Both clips are running on my phone (Android 2.2 )

 

[mu2pilot]

Galaxy SII

Thanks for the responses. Very helpful to us.

John, both clips are working on my Samsung Galaxy SII phone, running 2.3.6.

Is there a workaround to be able to view existing videos on GTD Connect? I am getting the same error message, "video cannot be played", when I try to view videos on this site.

 

[John Forrister]

Is there a workaround to be able to view existing videos on GTD Connect?

Hello mu2pilot,

At this point there isn't a workaround. The Android 2.x operating system interacts with the video player in a different way than the new Android OS. The 2.x OS isn't really very old, so we're looking for a way to make the player backwards compatible.

Best,
John

 

[Guest]

Thanks everyone for your replies!

This tells us that the underlying tools we are using seem to be Android 2.x+ compatible. We just need to figure out how to make them work in the broader context of Connect authentication and streaming for Android devices. Tricky, because we're not using Android much ourselves, and the emulators really struggle with video to begin with.

Bear with us. We love mobile and want to make it work on the broadest ranges of devices we can (within reason).