java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not connected. Call connect() - YouTube API

Question

I am trying to get the ThumbnailView working on my ArrayAdapter but I am getting the following error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Not connected. Call connect() and wait for onConnected() to be called.
        at com.google.android.youtube.player.internal.r.i(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.youtube.player.internal.o.k(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.youtube.player.internal.o.a(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.youtube.player.internal.p.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.youtube.player.internal.ac.a(Unknown Source)
        at com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubeThumbnailView$a.a(Unknown Source)

My ArrayAdapter looks like this:

Code for ArrayAdapter

My xml video_items.xml Looks like this:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/listviewbox"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <!-- Video Thumbnail -->
    <com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubeThumbnailView
        android:id="@+id/imageView_thumbnail"
        android:layout_width="85dp"
        android:layout_height="85dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:background="@color/panelcolor"
        android:scaleType="centerCrop" />

    <!-- Video Title -->
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/video_title"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignTop="@+id/imageView_thumbnail"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/imageView_thumbnail"
        android:paddingBottom="5dp"
        android:paddingRight="5dp"
        android:text="@string/videotext"
        android:textColor="@android:color/black"
        android:textSize="16sp" />

</RelativeLayout>

What could be wrong here?

Answer 1

The same happened to me when showing YoutubeThumbnailViews inside a long ListView. I found the solution mentioned f.e. here: https://github.com/youtube/yt-android-player/issues/2#issuecomment-58913900 or here: https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=7533#c6

The solution is wrapping the YoutubeThumbnailView inside a ViewHolder object, keeping track of its initialization state. The initialize(..) method may not be called multiple times.

Unfortunately the exception doesn't lead there quickly.