December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 50m
English
book
The Web Designer’s Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Apps with Web Standards (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript)
by Kristofer Layon
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8. Focus on App Content: Video
At the moment, Adobe Flash is still the dominant platform for delivering video on the World Wide Web. But you are likely familiar with the famous Steve Jobs public letter about Flash from spring 2010 that drew a clear line in the sand between iOS devices and Flash.1 So until Flash is supported in iOS, you need to use other alternatives for playing video.
Fortunately, the approach to video in iOS apps is similar to the approach to audio: There are HTML5 and NimbleKit library item options. Let’s take a look and see how video works in each case.
Delivering video with HTML5 on iPad
Playing a video file with HTML5 is about as easy as playing an audio file, but here’s the caveat: At least with the NimbleKit Objective-C ...
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