How to play video full screen in landscape using exoplayer

Question

I am using exoplayer to play video from url in my android app. In portrait everything work as expected (using viewpager, fragments and tabs inside activity). My goal is to play the video in full screen when the user is in landscape. It means only the video will play in landscape and all other details will desapear and return back to the original layout when portrait. How can I achieve this please? or what is the best way to achieve this? any sample code will be appreciate.

Answer 1

i am a noob so this is the best i can help with, btw I tested this in the Exoplayer Demo application, i changed the exoplayer height to 600px and i applied this code and it worked perfectly.

add this Code to detect screen orientation

  @Override
  public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
  super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

  // Checking the orientation of the screen
  if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
     //First Hide other objects (listview or recyclerview), better hide them using Gone.
     FrameLayout.LayoutParams params = (FrameLayout.LayoutParams) simpleExoPlayerView.getLayoutParams();
     params.width=params.MATCH_PARENT;
     params.height=params.MATCH_PARENT;
     simpleExoPlayerView.setLayoutParams(params);
  } else if (newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT){
     //unhide your objects here.
     FrameLayout.LayoutParams params = (FrameLayout.LayoutParams) simpleExoPlayerView.getLayoutParams();
     params.width=params.MATCH_PARENT;
     params.height=600;
     simpleExoPlayerView.setLayoutParams(params);
  }
}

btw in case you are not using FrameLayout but RelativeLayout

      RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = (RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) simpleExoPlayerView.getLayoutParams();

I forgot that you need to hide the action or title bar, hope this code helps, add these codes inside the code above, also i think you will need to extend your activity to AppCompatActivity for getSupportActionBar code to work.

if(getSupportActionBar()!=null) {
   getSupportActionBar().hide();
}
//To show the action bar
if(getSupportActionBar()!=null) {
   getSupportActionBar().show();
 }

also this may help to set the whole project in full screen, to hide status bar.etc, must be added inside onConfigurationChanged based on screen orientation.

In LandScape

ExoPlayerActivity.this.getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_FULLSCREEN || View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE);

To exit from fullscreen in PORTRAIT

ExoPlayerActivity.this.getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_HIDE_NAVIGATION | View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);

I edited the code, I added View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_IMMERSIVE to prevent status bar from showing when user click on the control button in the video.

Answer 2

You can check the orientation while setting the Player and set the params accordingly:

if (getActivity().getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == 
Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
        params = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) 
exoPlayerView.getLayoutParams();
        params.width = params.MATCH_PARENT;
        params.height = params.MATCH_PARENT;
        exoPlayerView.setLayoutParams(params);
    }

And hide the action bar :

((AppCompatActivity) getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().hide();