Good morning, I'm looking to understand the current state and future state of video capabilities using Android v1.5 With the current state of the product what video capabilities are working today? And what can we expect to be working on the next release of the software platform. I'm not sure I full understand the differant ways that video can be incorporated into an app. If someone can explain that to me that would be great. I know Youtube is one option (not working at the moment) Streaming video - and maybe imbeded video in HTML ?? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

What do you want to do with videos?

I'm looking to understand how and the best way to play videos on a device. The advantages and disadvantages / pro's and con's of each way. Also understand what works right now on Android v1.5. I'm puting together a beta app to show clients what can be done. I may or may night write the actual app. It will be a content app, PDF's, Images, video's and contact info type data. Thanks

Good quesion. If you add a streaming video screen to a v1.5 Android app you'll see a message pop-up when you tap that menu item. As you realize, the video screen isn't done yet (along with lots of others coming in phase 2). The idea is that you will be able to pull video content from one of two places. a) A video file you include in the Eclipse project before you compile. No internet needed in this case. Or b) from a URL you stream the video from. In this case you'll plop the video on a server somwhere (like DropBox or your website) then 'point' to the URL. Works great this way in iOS. Should work great in Android too.