MediaController always show on Android

Question

I am using mediacontroller in my app, but it shows only for 3 seconds. I have searched a lot, but in every document I see only the show function, set time out, but it has no effect. How can I always show mediacontroller?

I have tested show(0), but it had no effect.

Answer 1

You can extend the MediaController class and programmatically set an instance of it to a VideoView class:

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.MediaController;

public class MyMediaController extends MediaController {
    public MyMediaController(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public MyMediaController(Context context, boolean useFastForward) {
        super(context, useFastForward);
    }

    public MyMediaController(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    @Override
    public void show(int timeout) {
        super.show(0);
    }

}

Here's the usage:

VideoView myVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.my_video_view);
MediaController mc = new MyMediaController(myVideoView.getContext());
mc.setMediaPlayer(myVideoView);
myVideoView.setMediaController(mc);

Answer 2

You can create anonymous class inline and override certain methods. You need to override the hide method and do nothing in there. You also need to override the dispatchKeyEvent method to check for back key press and call the super.hide(). Otherwise on back press the controller wont hide and the activity cannot be closed.

 mediaController = new MediaController(this){
        @Override
        public void hide() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            //do nothing
        }

        @Override
        public boolean dispatchKeyEvent(KeyEvent event) {

            if(event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {

                if (mediaPlayer != null) {
                    mediaPlayer.reset();
                    mediaPlayer.release();
                    mediaPlayer = null;
                }
                super.hide();
                Activity a = (Activity)getContext();
                a.finish();

            }
        return true;
        }
    };

Answer 3

You can also create an anonymous class inline and override the hide method there instead of having to create a whole new class for it:

mediaController = new MediaController(this) {
    @Override
    public void hide() {
    //Do not hide.
    }
};