# Stream video live from Android device

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-video-live-from-android-device/42833>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 23, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-video-live-from-android-device/42833 "2014-04-23T00:02:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Deepanjan\_Ghosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Deepanjan\_Ghosh](https://community.wowza.com/u/Deepanjan_Ghosh)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-video-live-from-android-device/42833/1 "2014-04-23T00:02:31Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to build an android app which will capture video and stream it live. We want to use HLS for streaming the video to other the target devices. We are thinking of handling the delivering the video stream to the server in one of the below two ways.

1. create an output stream to write to a location on the server and use wowza media server to publish and stream the video from that location. Is this possible as we will have an incomplete file

2. use rtp stream to transfer the video stream to the server.

I would like to have some pointers which will help me to take the decision.

Thanks

Deep

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-video-live-from-android-device/42833/2 "2014-04-22T14:23:04Z")

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Hi there, have you heard about or seen the Wowza Android app?

[How to use Wowza GoCoder video broadcasting Android app](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-wowza-gocoder-video-broadcasting-android-app)

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Lanham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-video-live-from-android-device/42833/3 "2014-04-28T16:03:20Z")

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Hi Deepanjan,

There isn’t any documentation like that, or any examples.

Richard

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 10:26am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-video-live-from-android-device/42833/4 "2014-04-28T10:26:26Z")

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For RTP announce you might be able to use this guide as a starting place/reference:

[How to set up live streaming using an RTSP/RTP-based encoder](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-set-up-live-streaming-using-an-rtsp-rtp-based-encoder)

And these guides may also be useful:

[How to use the IRTSPActionNotify interface to listen for RTSP stream events](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-use-the-irtspactionnotify-interface-to-listen-for-rtsp-stream-events)

[IMediaCasterNotify2 example](https://www.wowza.com/docs/imediacasternotify2-example)

Salvadore

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**Author:** ![Deepanjan\_Ghosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Deepanjan\_Ghosh](https://community.wowza.com/u/Deepanjan_Ghosh)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:50am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/stream-video-live-from-android-device/42833/5 "2014-04-23T10:50:01Z")

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Hi Salvadore,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have heard about wowza gocoder. I need to have a separate app as we have other features, along with live streaming. I could not find any documentation pertaining to integrating the wowza gocoder app with another android app.

I would like to know more about this. It would be best if we can integrate the wowza gocoder with my app.

Thanks

Deepanjan