Video Streaming and Content Sharing using Android

Computer Science and Engineering

With the rising penetration of smartphones in the consumer market, mobile multimedia content is becoming the dominant form of information that people produce and consume on a daily basis. In this paper, wireless video streaming and content sharing application for mobile phones with the Android operating system is presented. Video Streaming and Content Sharing is a Peer to Peer technology in which the Android cell phone will be one peer and the PC will be the other peer of the network. Video streaming application for mobile phones with the Android operating system allows sharing of live information that is being captured by mobile phone sensors (e.g., camera, microphone) with computers within the Wi-Fi communication range. The live video is observable on the computer’s screen. The video streaming which is based on peer-to-peer communication between mobile phone and the PC is without the use of video processing servers or network infrastructure. Peer-to-peer video streaming from the cameras on smartphones to people nearby allows users to share what they see. Such streaming can be used in a variety of applications; in particular in various social network applications including sharing unforgettable moments with friends , cooperative fieldwork i.e., providing video sharing for teams distributed in a small area, example, teams of repairmen, and search and rescue teams in disaster areas, and support for health impaired persons including the elderly. Content sharing can be used for applications like seeing or browsing an image or text file on Android mobile phone which is stored in a computer. And also, image or text files stored in android mobile can be moved on to the computer available within Wi-Fi communication range.

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