Akamai Adaptive Media Player tvOS

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

Login to Datazoom here: https://app.datazoom.io
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 12.2
CocoaPods (https://guides.cocoapods.org/using/getting-started.html)
AmpCore 9.1.1

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 DZAkamaiTvOS framework after use_frameworks! in the Podfile

 pod 'DZAkamaiTvOS', '1.5.0', :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 DZAkamaiTVOSCollector
```

Initialize the framework by passing along the env (any one of DEV, STAGING, PROD) "Configuration ID", and player instance:

 DZAkamaiTvOsCollectorInstance.shared.initialize(dzEnv.PROD, <configuration id from Datazoom>, <AMPPlayer object>, onCompletion: {})

Custom Metadata

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

Custom Metadata

The customer should add the following snippet just after calling the DZAkamaiTvOsCollectorInstance.shared.initialize

DZAkamaiTvOsCollectorInstance.shared.setCustomMetaData(["customMetadataName": "customMetadataValue"])

Example:

func setupCustomMetadata(){
	 DZAkamaiTvOsCollectorInstance.shared.setCustomMetaData([
				"customPlayerName" : "Akamai tvOS Player",
					 "customDomain": "https://datazoom.io"
			])
}

Custom Events

Send Events like below:

DZAkamaiTvOsCollectorInstance.shared.sendCustomEvent("Custom_Event_Name", ["customMetadataName": "customMetadataValue"])

Example:

func buttonTouched() {       
  DZAkamaiTvOsCollectorInstance.shared.sendCustomEvent("buttonClick", ["buttonLabel": "ViewCredits"])        
}

Demo Application

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

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Installation

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Custom Metadata

Custom Metadata

Custom Events

Demo Application

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