Monitor Kaltura Player (Android)

The FastPix Data SDK with KalturaPlayer helps you track key video metrics like user interactions, playback quality, and performance to enhance the viewing experience. It lets you customize data tracking, monitor streaming quality, and securely send insights for better optimization and error resolution.

Key features:

• Capture user engagement through detailed viewer interaction data.
• Monitor playback quality with real-time performance analysis.
• Identify and fix video delivery bottlenecks on Android.
• Customize tracking to match specific monitoring needs.
• Handle errors with robust reporting and diagnostics.
• Gain deep insights into video performance with streaming diagnostics.

Prerequisites:

To track and analyze video performance, initialize the SDK with your Workspace key. Learn about Workspaces.

1. Access the FastPix Dashboard: Log in and navigate to the Workspaces section.
2. Locate Your Workspace Key: Copy the Workspace Key for client-side monitoring. Include this key in your Swift code on every page where you want to track video performance.

Step 1: Install and setup

1. Open your Android Studio project where you want to integrate the SDK.

2. Add the FastPix Data SDK dependency:

3. Navigate to your app-level build.gradle file (or build.gradle.kts if using Kotlin DSL).

// FastPix Kaltura Player SDK
implementation "io.fastpix.data:kaltura:1.0.0"
   
   //Kaltura player SDK
   implementation("com.kaltura.player:tvplayer:5.0.3")
   implementation("com.kaltura.playkit:playkitproviders:5.0.3")

Navigate to your settings.gradle file

dependencyResolutionManagement {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        maven {
            url = uri("https://maven.pkg.github.com/FastPix/android-data-kalturaPlayer")
            credentials {
                username = "your-github-userName"
                password = "your-PAT"
            }
        }
    }
}

3. Sync your project with Gradle files Click Sync Now in the notification bar to download and integrate the FastPix Data SDK.

Step 2: Import the SDK

Ensure kalturaPlayer is already configured in your project.

import io.fastpix.data.domain.model.CustomDataDetails
import io.fastpix.data.domain.model.PlayerDataDetails
import io.fastpix.data.domain.model.VideoDataDetails
import io.fastpix.data.kaltura_player_data.src.FastPixKalturaPlayer

Step 3: Basic Integration

Ensure that the workSpaceId is provided, as it is a mandatory field for FastPix integration, uniquely identifying your workspace. Install and import FastPixKalturaPlayer into your project, and create an fastPixKalturaPlayer instance to bind it to. If you are using any other custom player then create an instance of that player.

Next, create an instance of FastPixKalturaPlayer for tracking the analytics. Once the video URL is loaded and playback has started, the SDK will begin tracking the analytics.

import ...
class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
 private var fastPixKalturaPlayer: FastPixKalturaPlayer? = null}

You can initialize KalturaBasicPlayer with a kalturaPlayer in your Android application to enable seamless functionality. Use the following Kotlin or Java code in your Android application to configure kalturaPlayer with FastPix:

        val videoData = VideoDataDetails(
            videoId = "video-id",
            videoTitle = "Sample Video",
        )

        val customData = CustomDataDetails(
            customField1 = "custom-value-1",
            customField2 = "custom-value-2"
        )

        val playerData = PlayerDataDetails(
            playerName = "Kaltura Basic Player",
            playerVersion = "5.0.3"
        )
        fastPixKalturaPlayer = FastPixKalturaPlayer(
            context = this,
            playerView = binding.playerContainer,
            kalturaPlayer = kalturaPlayer!!,
            workspaceId = "your-workspace-id",
            videoDataDetails = videoData,
            playerDataDetails = playerData,
            customDataDetails = customData,
            enableLogging = true
        )

Step 4: Including custom data and metadata

• workSpaceId is a mandatory parameter that tells the SDK on which workspace the data will collect.
• playerView is another mandatory parameter.

Check out the user-passable metadata documentation to see the metadata supported by FastPix. You can use custom metadata fields like customField1 to customField10 for your business logic, giving you the flexibility to pass any required values. Named attributes, such as videoId and videoTitle, can be passed directly as they are.

     val videoData = VideoDataDetails(
            videoId = "video-id",
            videoTitle = "Sample Video",
            videoSeries = "Demo Series",
            videoProducer = "Producer Name",
            videoContentType = "Video",
            videoVariant = "HD",
            videoLanguage = "en",
            videoCDN = "cloudflare"
        )

        val customData = CustomDataDetails(
            customField1 = "custom-value-1",
            customField2 = "custom-value-2"
        )

To set up video analytics, create a FastPixKalturaPlayer object by providing the following parameters: your application's Context (usually the Activity), the KalturaPlayer instance, and the customerData.

  fastPixKalturaPlayer = FastPixKalturaPlayer(
            context = this,
            playerView = binding.playerContainer,
            kalturaPlayer = kalturaPlayer!!,
            workspaceId = "your-workspace-id",
            videoDataDetails = videoData,
            playerDataDetails = playerData,
            customDataDetails = customData,
            enableLogging = true
        )

Finally, when destroying the player, make sure to call the fastPixKalturaPlayer?.release() function to properly release resources.

override fun onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy()
    fastPixKalturaPlayer?.release() // Cleanup FastPix tracking
}

After completing the integration, start playing a video in your player. A few minutes after stopping playback, you’ll see the results in your FastPix Video Data dashboard. Log in to the dashboard, navigate to the workspace associated with your ws_key, and look for video views.

CustomerData Parameters

The CustomerData class accepts the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
workSpaceId	String	✅	Your FastPix workspace identifier
beaconUrl	String	❌	Custom beacon URL (default: metrix.ws)
videoData	VideoDataDetails	❌	Video metadata (see below)
playerData	PlayerDataDetails	❌	Player information
customData	CustomDataDetails	❌	Custom metadata fields

What FastPix Tracks

Once initialized, the SDK automatically collects:

Category	Examples
Playback events	play, pause, playing, ended
Buffer events	buffering, buffered
Seek behavior	seeking, seeked
QoS metrics	bitrate, resolution, FPS (when available)
Errors	kalturaPlayer error codes and messages
Player metadata	fullscreen, autoplay, MIME type etc

Example to configure Kaltura with FastPix Data SDK.

Add your Stream URL in url "your-stream-url.m3u8" and FastPix Workspace Key in workspaceId

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private lateinit var binding: ActivityMainBinding
    private var kalturaPlayer: KalturaBasicPlayer? = null
    private var fastPixKalturaPlayer: FastPixKalturaPlayer? = null

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        binding = ActivityMainBinding.inflate(layoutInflater)
        setContentView(binding.root)

        setupKalturaPlayer()
        setupFastPixSDK()
    }

    private fun setupKalturaPlayer() {
        val initOptions = PlayerInitOptions().setAutoPlay(true)
        kalturaPlayer = KalturaBasicPlayer.create(this, initOptions)

        kalturaPlayer?.setPlayerView(
            FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
            FrameLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT
        )

        val playerView = kalturaPlayer?.getPlayerView() ?: run {
            return
        }

        binding.playerContainer.addView(playerView)

        val entry = PKMediaEntry().apply {
            mediaType = PKMediaEntry.MediaEntryType.Vod
            sources = listOf(
                PKMediaSource().apply {
                    url = "your-stream-url.m3u8"
                }
            )
        }

        kalturaPlayer?.setMedia(entry)
    }

    private fun setupFastPixSDK() {
        val videoData = VideoDataDetails(
            videoId = "video-id",
            videoTitle = "Sample Video",
            videoSeries = "Demo Series",
            videoProducer = "Producer Name",
            videoContentType = "Video",
            videoVariant = "HD",
            videoLanguage = "en",
            videoCDN = "cloudflare"
        )

        val customData = CustomDataDetails(
            customField1 = "custom-value-1",
            customField2 = "custom-value-2"
        )

        val playerData = PlayerDataDetails(
            playerName = "Kaltura Basic Player",
            playerVersion = "5.0.3"
        )

        fastPixKalturaPlayer = FastPixKalturaPlayer(
            context = this,
            playerView = binding.playerContainer,
            kalturaPlayer = kalturaPlayer!!,
            workspaceId = "your-workspace-id",
            videoDataDetails = videoData,
            playerDataDetails = playerData,
            customDataDetails = customData,
            enableLogging = true
        )
    }

    override fun onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy()
        fastPixKalturaPlayer?.release()
        kalturaPlayer?.destroy()
    }
}

Debug Logging

Enable logs using:

enableLogging = true

Troubleshooting

SDK Not Tracking Events

• Ensure you've initialized the SDK after configuring Kaltura Player
• Check that workSpaceId is correct
• Verify Kaltura Player events are firing (check Kaltura Player logs)
• Enable logging to see FastPix SDK activity

Memory Leaks

• Always call release() in onDestroy()
• Ensure kalturaPlayer?.destroy() is called before releasing FastPix SDK

Missing Events

• The SDK automatically tracks all events from Kaltura Player
• Events are tracked based on Kaltura Player native event system
• Check that Kaltura player is properly configured and receiving events

Support

📩 Email: support@fastpix.io 📚 Docs: https://docs.fastpix.io