You should have the following things ready:
- The BlackBerry 10 Native SDK
- Your BlackBerry 10 device
- A basic understanding of the C language and some experience
running applications with the Native SDK
Warning: The VideoPlayback sample app does not work properly
on the BlackBerry 10 Device Simulator. You can still code, build, and deploy the app, but the
playback behavior will not work.
Configure your project
To import the complete project:
- From the NDK-Samples repository in GitHub, download the .zip file of the sample apps.
- Launch the Native SDK.
- On the File menu, click
Import.
- Expand General, then
select Existing Projects into Workspace.
Click Next.
- Browse to the location where you extracted the sample app and
click OK.
- Click Finish to import
the project into your workspace
The project appears in the Project Explorer window in the IDE. To see the source
files in the project, you can expand the project folder and then expand the src
folder.
Add a video to your project
The project already includes a video but you can add a different
video to play if you want.
- Add
the new video to your project workspace.
- In the IDE, in the Project Explorer view, double-click the
bar-descriptor.xml file in your
project.
- In
the bar-descriptor.xml view, click the Assets tab.
- In the Build Configurations section,
click All Configurations.
- In
the Assets section, click Add Files.
- In
the dialog box, click Workspace and
select the video file you want the application to play.
- Click OK.