Mux Data SDK for media3

Mux Data SDK for AndroidX Media3 is an SDK that can observe a media3 Player and report state and player metadata to Mux Data. This SDK is currently in beta, but reports all playback events, player startup time, experience score, etc. Additional Video Quality metrics are planned

Usage

To use this SDK, you must add it as a dependency to your Android project and then monitor it from the UI component or Service that manages your Player.

Add dependencies

Add our maven repository

repositories {
  maven {
    url "https://muxinc.jfrog.io/artifactory/default-maven-release-local"
  }
}

Add a dependency on this SDK

api 'com.mux.stats.sdk.muxstats:data-media3:1.2.2'

To include a specific version of the Media3 library, append -at_x_y to the artifact ID in the dependency. For example:

api "com.mux.stats.sdk.muxstats:data-media3-at_1_1:1.2.2"

Monitor your player

After you create your Player instance, monitor it with monitorWithMuxData().

// from (for example) a MediaSessionService
override fun onCreate() {
  // ...
  player = createMyExoPlayer() // Whatever player init you do
  mediaSession = createMyMediaSession()
  muxStats = monitorPlayer(player)
}

private fun monitorPlayer(player: Player): MuxStatsSdkMedia3<ExoPlayer> {
  // You can add your own data to a View, which will override any data we collect
  val customerData = CustomerData(
    CustomerPlayerData().apply { },
    CustomerVideoData().apply {
      title = "Mux Data SDK for Media3 Demo"
    },
    CustomerViewData().apply { }
  )

  val muxStats = player.monitorWithMuxData(
    context = this,
    envKey = MUX_DATA_ENV_KEY,
    customerData = customerData,
    playerView = view.playerView
  )
  // (beta-only) If you're playing from a MediaSessionService, you'll need to manually set screen & player size
  muxStats.setPlayerSize(...)
  muxStats.setScreenSize(...)

  return muxStats
}

private fun stopPlaying() {
  player?.let { oldPlayer ->
    oldPlayer.stop()
    oldPlayer.release()
  }
  // Make sure to release() your muxStats whenever the user is done with the player
  muxStats?.release()
}

Development

Contributing

We welcome pull requests and issues! Our codebase follows Kotlin's standard coding conventions, which Android Studio should already be configured for. Our only special rule is that we require an indent width of 2. Your IDE should pick this up automatically.

Internal Structure

The SDK for media3 is composed mostly of two objects: MuxStatsSdkMedia3 is the public interface for use by app developers integrating the SDK. It leverages the observation logic in Media3PlayerBinding, an internal class that observes a Player of any type and forwards events and player state to a core library whose source code can be found here.

API Surface

The surface of this API is contained in MuxStatsSdkMedia3, which extends a common MuxDataSdk object in a common core library. This is the class customers should interact with if/when they need to customize some aspect of SDK behavior. Internally, MuxStatsSdkMedia3 manages player interaction with the underlying data tracking and reporting code in the android core

Player Bindings

Media3PlayerBinding should handle all interaction with the Player. It, in turn, is managed by our core android library. The PlayerBinding is bound when the outer MuxStatsSdkMedia3 object is created and unbound when that object is released.