THEOPlayer 🤝 Nielsen

THEOplayer-Connector-Nielsen provides an integration between the THEOplayerSDK and NielsenAppSDK & NielsenTVOSAppSDK. It connects to the Nielsen backend and reports events fired from THEOplayer instances.

Installation

Swift Package Manager

1. In Xcode, install the Nielsen connector by navigating to File > Add Packages
2. In the prompt that appears, select the iOS-Connector GitHub repository: https://github.com/THEOplayer/iOS-Connector
3. Select the version you want to use.
4. Choose the Connector libraries you want to include in your app.

To support custom feature builds of THEOplayerSDK perform the following steps:

1. Clone this repository to your computer.
2. Use a local override of the theoplayer-sdk-ios package by selecting the folder ../../Helpers/TheoSPM/theoplayer-sdk-ios in Finder and dragging it into the Project navigator of your Xcode project.
3. Place your custom THEOplayerSDK.xcframework at ../../Helpers/TheoSPM/theoplayer-sdk-ios/THEOplayerSDK.xcframework. (It is also possible to place your xcframework somewhere else. In that case make sure to update the Package.swift manifest inside the your local override so that it points to your custom THEOplayer build)
4. If Xcode complains about a missing xcframework
   1. Choose File > Packages > Reset Package Caches from the menu bar.
   2. If it is still not working, make sure to remove any THEOplayerSDK.xcframework inclusions that you manually installed before installing this connector package.

Cocoapods

1. Create a Podfile if you don't already have one. From the root of your project directory, run the following command: pod init
2. To your Podfile, add links to the registries of Cocoapods and Nielsen: source 'https://cdn.cocoapods.org/' and source 'https://github.com/NielsenDigitalSDK/nielsenappsdk-ios-specs-dynamic.git'
3. To your Podfile, add the connector pods that you want to use in your app: pod 'THEOplayer-Connector-Nielsen'
4. Install the pods using pod install , then open your .xcworkspace file to see the project in Xcode.

To support custom feature builds of THEOplayerSDK perform the following steps:

1. Clone this repository to your computer.
2. Use a local override of the THEOplayerSDK-basic pod by adding the following line to your projects Podfile: pod 'THEOplayerSDK-basic', :path => 'iOS-Connector/Helpers/TheoPod' and make sure the path points to the TheoPod folder.

Usage

Import the THEOplayerConnectorNielsen module

import THEOplayerConnectorNielsen

Create a Dictionary that contains the info on how to connect to your Nielsen endpoint:

let configuration = [
  "appid": "XXYnnnnnn-XnnX-nXXn-nXnn-XnnnnXnnnXnX",
  "appversion": "n.n",
  "appname": "Theo Nielsen Sample App",
  "nol_devDebug": "DEBUG"
]

Create a NielsenConnector that uses this configuration and your THEOplayer instance:

let connector = NielsenConnector(
    configuration: configuration,
    player: yourTHEOplayer
)

Hold a reference to your connector. Once the connector is released from memory it will clean up itself and stop reporting to Nielsen.

What events does this connector report to Nielsen?

Basic playback events

THEOplayer event	NielsenAppApi report func
PlayerEventTypes.LOADED_META_DATA	loadMetadata(_ metadata: Any?)
PlayerEventTypes.PAUSE	stop()
PlayerEventTypes.SOURCE_CHANGE	end()
PlayerEventTypes.ENDED	end()
PlayerEventTypes.DESTROY	end()
TextTrackEventTypes.ENTER_CUE	sendID3(_ data: String)