Streaming Live audio using Codename One - codenameone

Question

I am trying to convince a friend of mine to use CN1 as his dev platform for mobile apps. One of the challenges he has brought up is the ability to stream live audio from a radio station using a CN1 app.
I have had a look at the docs and I can see examples of loading media files that are already on the phone, but I cannot see an example of where you point it at a URL and stream live audio.
As you have probably guessed he is interested in developing radio apps for remote radio stations that don't already have their own
Is it possible to do this in CN1?

Answer 1

That's quite possible with CN1 and number of developers have done that in the past.
You can use MediaManager and point it to your remote streaming URL.
Below works for playing an audio file from remote URL and could work for streaming:
Form radio = new Form(new BorderLayout());
Display.getInstance().scheduleBackgroundTask(() -> {
try {
Media audio = MediaManager.createMedia(streamingUrl, false);
audio.prepare();
Display.getInstance().callSerially(() -> {
final MediaPlayer player = new MediaPlayer(audio);
player.setAutoplay(true);
audio.setNativePlayerMode(false);
radio.add(BorderLayout.CENTER, player);
radio.revalidate();
});
} catch (IOException err) {
Log.e(err);
ToastBar.showErrorMessage("Error streaming audio: " + err);
}
});
radio.show();

Answer 2

To avoid this error "Video Playing is not supported on this platform", you have to put true to isVidio parameter like this when handling video stream.
Media audio = MediaManager.createMedia(streamingUrl, true);