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Kaltura's two different iOS SDK and its implementation

According to Kaltura documentation:

There are two ways to install Kaltura SDK, one is pod and other is traditional way to drag and drop Kaltura SDK.

1) Traditional Way : https://github.com/kaltura/player-sdk-native-ios has KPViewController class, which is used to play video as per the documents. but not having KalturaPlayer class.

2) POD installation : pod 'player-sdk-native-ios', '~> 1.1' they provided KalturaPlayer class which is not present in https://github.com/kaltura/player-sdk-native-ios

And [[KPViewController alloc] initWithURL:iFrameURL]; gives the error KPViewController doesnt have initWithURL method.

3) according to demo app : https://github.com/kaltura/IOSReferenceApp they have installed the sdk traditional way but yet they have KalturaPlayer class. And drawPlayer method from MediaInfoViewController_iPhone.m has implementation of playing video ,yet it is not playing video for me, so I'm directly calling a method playButtonPressed from same class, which calls method playVideo from PlayerViewController_iPhone class and it plays video but the methdod playVideo opens MPMoviePlayerViewControllerwhich is different from KalturaPlayer

So which SDK should I use and if use POD sdk then is it the right way to play the Video because it plays in MPMoviePlayerViewController rather than KPViewController ?

And one more, is there pod installation available for KalturaClient?

Solution

  • You should generally use Pods when available. They are the state-of-the-art in library management on iOS. You can find the COCOAPOD KalturaPlayerSDK on cocoapods.org.

    Podfile

    platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!

target 'SO-32391714' do
pod 'KALTURA'
end

    As mentioned by @SML, some classes may be poorly documented in the Pod. I have no better suggestion than to contact their Tech Support.