TUTORIAL 23
Media
In this tutorial, we will integrate a video clip, to serve as a placeholder for
some sort of future "helpcast" to assist users with Patchy.
Step-By-Step Instructions........................................................................
First, you need to have completed the previous tutorial. If you are
beginning the tutorials here, or if you wish to not use your existing work,
you can download a ZIP file with all of the tutorial results, and you can copy
the 22-Maps edition of Patchy to use as a starting point.
Step #1: Obtain and Install a Video Clip
First, we need a suitable video clip to serve as our helpcast placeholder. A
320x240 MP4 video file should do nicely. Please, though, respect creators'
copyrights – consider using a Creative Commons-licensed clip, such as one
of these.
For something the size of your typical video clip, you should store it in an
SD card, since space in on-board flash memory is at a premium. We need to
upload the MP4 file there as helpcast.mp4. To do that, either use Eclipse's
file-browsing tools, or use DDMS, or use the adb push command from the
command line. The SD card can be found at either /sdcard or /mnt/sdcard,
depending on your emulator or device.