I have a video file on a website in .MP4 format and I want to allow the user to be able to download the video to their SD card by clicking a link. Is there an easy way to do this. I currently have this code but its not working...not sure what I am doing wrong. THanks for any help!
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection;
import org.apache.http.util.ByteArrayBuffer;
import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.util.Log;
public class VideoManager extends Activity { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);}
private final String PATH = "/sdcard/download/"; //put the downloaded file here
public void DownloadFromUrl(String VideoURL, String fileName) { //this is the downloader method
try {
URL url = new URL("http://www.ericmoyer.com/episode1.mp4"); //you can write here any link
File file = new File(fileName);
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
Log.d("VideoManager", "download begining");
Log.d("VideoManager", "download url:" + url);
Log.d("VideoManager", "downloaded file name:" + fileName);
/* Open a connection to that URL. */
URLConnection ucon = url.openConnection();
/*
* Define InputStreams to read from the URLConnection.
*/
InputStream is = ucon.getInputStream();
BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is);
/*
* Read bytes to the Buffer until there is nothing more to read(-1).
*/
ByteArrayBuffer baf = new ByteArrayBuffer(50);
int current = 0;
while ((current = bis.read()) != -1) {
baf.append((byte) current);
}
/* Convert the Bytes read to a String. */
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(PATH+file);
fos.write(baf.toByteArray());
fos.close();
Log.d("VideoManager", "download ready in"
+ ((System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime) / 1000)
+ " sec");
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.d("VideoManager", "Error: " + e);
}
}
}