What we’re building
In my previous post I showed how to upload videos to Firebase Cloud Storage using client side encoding. This approach puts the encoding burden on the client, but can save server transcoding costs.
This time I’ll show how to use server side encoding instead, combining Firebase Cloud Storage, Firebase Cloud Functions and the Publitio API which I’ve written about previously.
Note: The method we’ll see here solved the security issue I described in this post, as the API key and secret aren’t used in the client at all.
System Design
The processing pipeline for each video file is as follows:
- Uploading the file from the client to Firebase Cloud Storage. …
What we’re building
This is a quick tutorial on how to design a login screen with a background video file, which I recently added to my app WaveSpy ( iOS, Android).
Here’s what the screen will look like:
Project setup
Create the project
I’m assuming you have a flutter dev env set up. If not, you can use Flutter’s Getting Started.
Now let’s create a new project named flutter_login_video. In the terminal run:
flutter create --org com.learningsomethingnew.fluttervideo --project-name flutter_login_video flutter_login_videoIt’s a good idea to do your first commit at this point
Add the video_player plugin
We’ll use the video_player plugin to display the video in the background. …
What we’re building
We’ll see how to build a flutter app for iOS/Android that allows users to view and share videos. In my previous post I showed how to do this with Publitio as our video storage API. In this tutorial we’ll use Firebase Cloud Storage to host the videos instead. We’ll also add client-side encoding and HLS support, so the client can stream the videos with adaptive bitrate.
The stack
- Flutter — For making cross platform apps.
- Firebase Cloud Firestore — For storing video metadata (urls) and syncing between clients (without writing server code).
- Firebase Cloud Storage — For hosting the actual videos.
- FFmpeg — For running client-side video encoding. …
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