Question

In Titanium 1.6.1 I can get Android 2.2 to play video on Kitchen Sink, but have been unable to get video to play outside of Kitchen Sink on Android. I’d like the smallest code snippet possible to play a video in Android.

In my current attempt I tried using the movie_embed.js from Kitchen Sink in a new project’s app.js file like this:

var btnPlayMovie = Titanium.UI.createButton({
    text: 'Click me',
    left: 10,
    height: 30,
    top: 100
});

btnPlayMovie.addEventListener('click', function(){

    var win = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
        url:'./movie_embed.js',
        title:'Test movie'
    });
    //various methods of opening the window win.open(), Ti.UI.currentTab.open(win, {animated:true}), etc
    //none have worked either erroring or showing a black screen.
});

it works in iPhone, but not in Android 2.2

Answer 1

I recommend not trying to do video in Titanium.

We have video working in 1.6.2. Right now we only have 2 videos playing in it. What will play is very limited. I’m guessing it is encoding issues. Also the video opens in a new Window, we can’t change the url of an existing video, and have other issues.