Originally published here. Preface I think LayoutInflater is one of the most under-researched and under-appreciated components of the Android framework. Which is ironic, in a way, since it’s used in pretty much every application ever written. Anyway, in this short article I intend to show a simple example of custom LayoutInflater…

Originally published here. Series Contents Part One: CMake in Android Cookbook Part Two: Building FFmpeg Part Three: Throwing libx264 in the Mix [you are here] Throwing libx264 in the Mix Preface This article was long coming. I actually intended to follow up my very original article on FFmpeg with a continuation on how to integrate libx264, but due…

Originally published here. Series Contents Part One: CMake in Android Cookbook Part Two: Building FFmpeg [you are here] Part Three: Throwing libx264 in the Mix Building FFmpeg Preface This article expands on my previous works and improves them in a few areas (specifically performance-wise, because the previous article used –disable-asm). …

Originally published here. Series Preface This series of three articles (series content below) aims to help Android developers without much of experience in the native development to integrate external native libraries (in this case FFmpeg and libx264, but it should be relatively easy to extend to other projects) and streamline the whole…

Originially published at my blog here. — Preamble Pre- and post-build events is very useful feature of xCode, yet quite underestimated and under-researched (in my opinion). Usually, whole interaction with this feature, in an average project, is to press the button to add new “Run Script” phase and copy-paste script from a library documentation so it can work…

Originally published at my blog here. — Preamble This article is the continuation of my article about building FFmpeg for Android. If you haven’t read it, please, take a look here: Building FFmpeg for Android, since I will skip some basic stuff that already was described here. In this article, I will concentrate on the specifics of building…

Originally was posted at my blog here. This article has an continuation with CLang and FFmpeg 4.0 integration explained. Check it out here! — Preambule Some time ago, I got task on my work which required processing of video on Android. As you probably aware — Android doesn’t deliver built-in tool for such task (Ok-ok, there actually is MediaCodec, which, in a way, allows you to perform video processing, but about it in the next…