[question] How to integrate SurfaceView to make a gui for mpv

[JingMatrix]

Hello, your project is very promising to me because I want to make a simple gui for mpv inside termux.
Currently, mpv only need the id to android.view.Surface to play its video through the option --wid=<ID>:

On  Android,  the  ID  is  interpreted as android.view.Surface.
Pass it as a value cast to intptr_t.
Use with --vo=mediacodec_embed and  --hwdec=mediacodec for  direct  rendering  using  MediaCodec,
or  with  --vo=gpu   --gpu-context=android (with or without --hwdec=mediacodec-copy).

Could you tell me how to integrate a SurfaceView?
In this way I can return the Surface id from its SurfaceHolder.Callback.

Would it be as simple as adding a TextView?

[tareksander]

I'm adding SurfaceView for use in applications, but you can't just use it in mpv. The problem is that the Android version of mpv expects to be run in an Android app process, but Termux applications are run outside the main app process. But you can get mpv to render to a buffer. You could use that together with the shared buffer function for ImageView to display an image. Here is an example for using a pixel buffer with ImageView.