PlayerControlView: Continue progress updates when not visible

[mariah-smith25]

[REQUIRED] Searched documentation and issues

I've looked through the source code for PlayerControlView.java. Tried subclassing PlayerControlView to override hide() method and prevent removing the progress callback action but some of the members are private.

[REQUIRED] Question

Is it possible to not tie video progress updates to control view visibility? I have them decoupled in my UI as I need an always visible progress bar, but I am using the show/hide & timeout functionality for pause and play buttons UX. I would have to set up a separate runnable to poll progress and duration from the Player and tie it to playback state as well, which is messy (and is the suggested workaround on stackoverflow).

Thank you!

[marcbaechinger]

There is currently no way to do that I'm afraid. I mark this as an enhancement, but I can't say when we have time to look into this and provide a solution. If we find an easy way it's probably soon, but at a first look it seems like it needs some refactoring of the PlayerControlView. Currently when the PlayerControlView is hidden, the update action is stopped as the component assumes the progress bar is part of the component.

[DarrelAeturnum]

Hi any alternative ways to do this ?

[marcbaechinger]

I think an alternative would be to create your own update action that you start when Player.EventListener.onIsPlaying reports that the player is playing and stop it when the callback reports that the player is paused. If you feel that having an additional action is redundant and too much, you can combine this with registering a PlayerControlView.VisibilityListener so you only do this when the PlayerControlView.ProgressUpdateListener stops reporting progress updates.

Hope this helps. If this is not sufficient, please give me bit of a more detail of your use case.

[DarrelAeturnum]

@marcbaechinger Thanks for that ! I found another alternative. I wrapped the PlayerControlView inside a LinearLayout and hide the visibility of the LinearLayout instead of the PlayerControlView .