Larix Broadcaster SDK for Android

Build live streaming Android apps with our SDK

Softvelum Larix Broadcaster gives extended capabilities for creating content on mobile devices.
It's a freeware app however there are cases when you might want to build your own applications.
Softvelum provides SDKs for that case. Larix Broadcaster SDK for Android is one of them.

Why Larix SDK?

• RTMP, SRT, RTSP, RIST: Larix streaming library provides ability to stream your media content via all of them. It's the best set of streaming protocols available for your mobile streaming scenarios.
• SDK package includes source code for your reference, with full set of comments within the code. You can find out more about SDK package below.
• New: WebRTC with WHIP signaling based on Pion.
• Testing is crucial part of our product life cycle. Take a look at Larix Broadcaster connectivity tests for Android as example. Besides that, our SDK customers get their updates only after we make sure our free apps haven't shown any issues on larger device fleet. So it's a double quality check for our subscribed customers.
  
• SDK is available on subscription basis. You pay as long as you need our software updates and technical support.

What is included into Larix Broadcaster Android SDK?

Larix Broadcaster Android SDK package has the following elements.

• Larix Broadcaster application source code with comments for every important component and code fragment.
• Binary libraries: libmbl (Softvelum closed-source streaming library), libsrt (official SRT Alliance library) and librist (official RIST Forum library).
• Larix Screencaster application source code, it uses Media Projection API to capture and broadcast device screen.
• BackgroundCamera is an advanced sample: record camera preview, broadcast from background service while running 2 instances of streamer to record HD video and broadcast SD video simultaneously; it also draws logo and text.
• EncodeAndMuxTest sample to draw simple animation using OpenGL surface, encode and broadcast it.
• Camera2demo sample uses Camera2 API to get preview, apply sepia filter, encode processed image and broadcast it.
• CameraFX sample uses Camera or Camera2 API to get preview, apply filters, encode processed image and broadcast it.
• LarixFragment from our github shows a minimal example of app which can be built with streaming library. Step-by-step guide explains the building process.
• Getting started is a document which is provided as part of Larix Broadcaster SDK for Android. You can read it to see what you get in the SDK package and how you will start using the SDK.

Having all that you will be able to create your own apps based on Larix apps, as well as include streaming capabilities into your existing apps.

Notice on NDI support: we do not provide NDI as part of our SDKs by default. Contact us if you want to add NDI streaming capabilities into your application.

High-level overview of Larix Broadcaster

The diagram below shows the key components of our Larix Broadcaster free app and the system components it uses for its work. You can download full-size picture here

Click on elements, their respective details will be shown below the diagram.