I have created a database in mysql and added videos to it as blobs. I am trying to figure out how to now play these videos in my android application by connecting to the database and playing them based on their id. I don't even know where to begin on how I might do this. I have looked online and there are no tutorials of how to play a video from a mysql database. If anyone knows any useful tutorial on how to do this that would be really helpful or if they could explain it to me.
I have already tried to create a basic login android app to try and understand how to get and post info to a database. below is the code for it. But as I said there are no tutorials that I could find on how to play videos from a database. So If anyone knows or could show me how i can modify this code to download videos from the database instead that would also be extremely helpful.
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
EditText ET_NAME,ET_PASS;
String login_name, login_pass;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
ET_NAME = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.user_name);
ET_PASS = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.user_pass);
}
public void userLogin(View view){
login_name = ET_NAME.getText().toString();
login_pass = ET_PASS.getText().toString();
String method = "login";
BackgroundTask backgroundTask = new BackgroundTask(this);
backgroundTask.execute(method, login_name,login_pass);
}
}
public class BackgroundTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
Context context;
AlertDialog alertDialog;
BackgroundTask(Context context){
this.context = context;
}
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(context).create();
alertDialog.setTitle("login info...");
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
String login_url = "http://192.168.157.1/login.php";
String method = params[0];
if(method.equals("login")){
String login_name = params[1];
String login_pass = params[2];
try {
URL url = new URL(login_url);
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
httpURLConnection.setDoInput(true);
OutputStream outputStream = httpURLConnection.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream,"UTF-8"));
String data = URLEncoder.encode("login_name", "UTF-8")+"="+URLEncoder.encode(login_name,"UTF-8")+"&"+
URLEncoder.encode("login_pass", "UTF-8")+"="+URLEncoder.encode(login_pass,"UTF-8");
bufferedWriter.write(data);
bufferedWriter.flush();
bufferedWriter.close();
outputStream.close();
InputStream inputStream = httpURLConnection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream,"iso-8859-1"));
String response = "";
String line = "";
while((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null){
response += line;
}
bufferedReader.close();
inputStream.close();
httpURLConnection.disconnect();
return response;
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return null;
}
@Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Void... values) {
super.onProgressUpdate(values);
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
alertDialog.setMessage(result);
alertDialog.show();
}
}