JWPlayerKit 4.x Best Practice Apps

This repository contains samples relating to the JWPlayerKit SDK version 4.x for iOS and JWPlayerTVKit SDK version 1.x for tvOS.

BestPracticeApps

The BestPracticeApps workspace is composed of several projects (with corresponding targets), each of which runs as a separate application.

Platform	Project	Description
iOS	Advanced Player	Advanced implementation of JWPlayerKit SDK with VAST ads.
iOS	Basic Player	Simple implementation of JWPlayerKit SDK with a single player item.
tvOS	BasicTVPlayer	Simple implementation of JWPlayerTVKit SDK with a single player item.
iOS	ChromeCast	Simple implementation including the ability to cast to ChromeCast devices.1
iOS	ChromeCast-GCKUICastButton	Simple implementation using the cast button provided by the ChromeCast framework to cast to ChromeCast devices.1
iOS	Custom UI	Demonstrates how to create a basic user interface from scratch, using only JWPlayerView.
iOS	DRM Fairplay	Simple implementation of JWPlayerKit SDK that plays protected video content through FairPlay (DRM).
iOS	FeedTableViewController	Simple implementation of JWPlayerKit SDK that plays videos embedded in a UITableView, with a naive 'infinite scroll' implementation.
iOS	Offline DRM	Demonstrates how to implement offline playback of protected video content through FairPlay (DRM).
iOS	Offline Playback	Demonstrates how to implement offline download, storage and playback of unprotected content.
iOS	Google IMA Ads	Simple implementation of JWPlayerKit SDK with Google IMA.
iOS	Google IMA Companion Ads	Simple implementation of JWPlayerKit SDK with Google IMA Companion Ads.
iOS	Google DAI Ads	Simple implementation of JWPlayerKit SDK with Google DAI.
iOS	JWPlayer Ads	Simple implementation of JWPlayerKit SDK with advertising.
iOS	Recommendations	Simple implementation including recommended related content.
iOS	Picture in Picture	Demonstrates how to enable Picture in Picture.
iOS	Captions	Demonstrates how to handle caption events.

Setup

ℹ️ The project uses cocoapods to manage dependencies.

Steps to compile:

1. Make sure Xcode is closed.
2. In the Terminal app, navigate to the project's root directory.
3. To download and integrate the dependencies in the project, run:

   pod install

4. Open JWBestPracticeApps-4x.xcworkspace.
5. Add your JWPlayer iOS SDK license key to the AppDelegate for the target project:

   JWPlayerKitLicense.setLicenseKey(<#Your License Key#>)

Now you can build and run the project.

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⚠️ Looking for SDK version 3.x?
The demo apps in this repository are intended to be used with version 4.x of the JWPlayerKit iOS SDK. For information on JWPlayer SDK version 3.x BestPracticeApps, go to this link.

Footnotes

1. Unlike the other apps in this project which are working code examples, this app is a valid code example that nevertheless does not work as-is. Rather, it requires the dynamic build of the Google Cast SDK. As Google does not distribute this via CocoaPods, it must be added manually to a given project — as we do not include external frameworks in our repositories. Please refer to our documentation for more information. ↩ ↩²