Akamai Adaptive Media Player iOS

Datazoom’s framework facilitates iOS applications using the Akamai Adaptive Media Player iOS player to send video playback events based on the configuration created in data pipes.

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Add a Collector as indicated here: How to add a Collector
Copy the config key that was created at the end of the process
Click the icon indicated below to copy the Configuration Key

You will see this message:

4. Replace the <configuration id from Datazoom>in Datazoom's DZAkamai.framework file with the Key you copied above.

5. Replace the <url given by Datazoom> with <https://platform.datazoom.io/beacon/v1/>

6. Replace the <AMPPlayer object> with your playerInstance identifier

Prerequisites

macOS Catalina version 10.15.2 or later
Xcode 12.x with Swift 5.1 (The AMP Core supports Swift 5.1 only)
CocoaPods (https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html)

Installation

Open the terminal and check if Cocoapods is installed in your machine.
```
pod --version
```
If the above command returns no version number, then you'll need to install CocoaPods.
```
sudo gem install cocoapods
```
After installation, navigate to the Xcode project directory and create a Podfile configuration file if not present.
```
pod init
```
Run the command:
```
open Podfile
```

Add the DZAkamai framework after use_frameworks! in the Podfile

 pod 'DZAkamai', '1.14.0', :source => 'https://gitlab.com/datazoom/pod-specs.git'

Add the AmpCore framework in the Podfile
```
pod 'AmpCore'
```
Pull and update the latest Cocoapods pod specs
```
pod repo update
```
Install the pods
```
pod install
```
Be sure to close any current Xcode sessions and use `your_project_name.xcworkspace` for this project from now on.

Implementation Steps for Swift Language-based Applications

Open the ViewController/View file, where the AMPPlayer(Akamai Player) is included.
Import the framework using the following command:
```
import DZAkamaiCollector
```

Initialize the framework by passing along the "Configuration ID", and player instance:

 DZAmpCollector.dzSharedManager.initAkamaiPlayerWith(configID: <configuration id from Datazoom>, url: <url given by Datazoom>, playerInstance: <AMPPlayer object>)

Implementation Steps for Objective-C Language-based Applications

Create a bridging header file, to allow interoperability of languages.
Open the ViewController/View file, where the AMPPlayer(akamai player) is included.

Import the following:

#import <AVKit/AVKit.h> 
#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>
#import <DZAkamaiCollector.h>

Initialize the swift class in the .h file:
```
DZAkamaiCollector *akamaiObject;
```

In the .m file, allocate using:

akamaiObject = [[DZAkamaiCollector alloc]init];
[akamaiObject initNativePlayerWithConfigId: <configuration id from Datazoom>, url: <url given by Datazoom>, playerInstance: <AMPPlayer Object>];

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Run the command:
```
open Podfile
```

Add the DZAkamaiIMA framework after DzAkamai framework in the Podfile

pod 'DZAkamaiIMA', '1.14.0', :source => 'https://gitlab.com/datazoom/pod-specs.git'

Install the pods
```
pod update
pod install
```
Open the ViewController/View file, where the AMPPlayer(Akamai Player) is included.
Import the framework using the following command:
```
import DZAkamaiIMACollector
```

Initialise the framework :

var ima: AmpIMAManager!
ima = AmpIMAManager(ampPlayer: player, videoView: player.playerView!)
 
DZAkamaiIMACollectorInstance.shared.connect(DZAmpCollector.dzSharedManager, ima)

Custom Events & Metadata

Datazoom allows customers to collect custom events and metadata that aren't emitted from the video player.

Custom Metadata

Create an NSDictionary with necessary metadata

let metaData = ["customMetadata":"MetadataValue"]

Add the metadata to DZEventCollector

DZAmpCollector.dzSharedManager.customMetaData(metaData)

Example:

func sendCustomMetadata(){
	 DZAmpCollector.dzSharedManager.customMetaData(["customPlayerName" : "iOS Native Player","customDomain":domain])
}

Custom Events

Send Events like below:

DZAmpCollector.dzSharedManager.customEvents("custom_event_name", metadata: nil)

Example:

@objc func buttonPushTouched() {       
  DZAmpCollector.dzSharedManager.customEvents("buttonClick", metadata:["customPlayerName":"AkamaiPlayer","customDomainName":"datazoom.io"])        
}

Demo Application

A demo application that shows the usage of this framework is available here:
https://gitlab.com/datazoom/apple-ios-mobile/mobile-ios-akamai-demo/-/tree/develop
This application can be used to test the DZAkamai framework implementation.

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Prerequisites

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Implementation Steps for Swift Language-based Applications

Implementation Steps for Objective-C Language-based Applications

Customers Using Google IMA Ads

Custom Events & Metadata

Custom Metadata

Custom Events

Demo Application

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Custom Events & Metadata

Custom Metadata

Custom Events

Demo Application

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