PlayerUIController

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The PlayerUIController is responsible for controlling the UI of a YouTubePlayer.

You can get a reference to the PlayerUIController from the YouTubePlayerView

youtubePlayerView.getPlayerUIController();

Show video title in the player

PlayerUIController exposes a method called setVideoTitle(String videoTitle).

If you want to use this method you need to find the title of the video. The recommended approach is to use the YouTube Data API to fetch the video title from the video id. You can see an example in the method setVideoTitle(PlayerUIController playerUIController, String videoId) from the sample app.

Live videos

If you want to play live videos you must setup the UI accordingly, by calling this method

PlayerUIController.enableLiveVideoUI(boolean enable);

Unfortunately there is no way for the player to recognize if it is playing a live video or not, therefore is up to the developer to change the UI accordingly.

Custom actions

You can set custom actions on the right and left side of the Play/Pause button of the player

PlayerUIController.setCustomAction1(Drawable icon, OnClickListener listener );
PlayerUIController.setCustomAction2(Drawable icon, OnClickListener listener );
PlayerUIController.showCustomAction1(boolean show);
PlayerUIController.showCustomAction2(boolean show);

by default if you set a custom action with a null listener the icon won't be visible.

You can also add any type of View to the UI, this can be useful if you want to add a new icon to the UI.

PlayerUIController.addView(View view);
PlayerUIController.removeView(View view);

The View will be added to the top of the player.