Video Restarts on orientation change

Question

I wrote a code to play a video from my site.

It works correctly but when I rotate my phone the video restarts from the start.

How do I solve this?

public class ActivityVideoDetail extends Activity {

    private VideoDetail videoDetail;
    private TextView    txtResult;
    // -------------------------
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.layout_activity_video_detail);
        if (savedInstanceState != null)
        {

        }
        else {
            ini();
        }
    }


    // -------------------------
    private void ini() {
        videoDetail = (VideoDetail) getIntent().getExtras().getSerializable(VideoDetail.VIDEO_DETAIL);
        txtResult = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txtResult);
        txtResult.setText(videoDetail.getVideoTitle());

        Uri uri = Uri.parse(videoDetail.getVideoPath());
        //   Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://daily3gp.com/vids/747.3gp");

        VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoPlayer);

        MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
        mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);
        mediaController.setMediaPlayer(videoView);

        videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
        videoView.setVideoURI(uri);
        videoView.start();
    }
}

Answer 1

You just have to go to the AndroidManifest.xml and inside or in your activities labels, you have to type this line of code as someone up there said:

android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"

So, you'll have something like this:

<activity android:name="ActivityMenu"
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize">
</activity>

Hope it works for you

There are generally three ways to do this:

As some of the answers suggested, you could distinguish the cases of your activity being created for the first time and being restored from savedInstanceState. This is done by overriding onSaveInstanceState and checking the parameter of onCreate.

You could lock the activity in one orientation by adding android:screenOrientation="portrait" (or "landscape") to in your manifest.

You could tell the system that you meant to handle screen changes for yourself by specifying android:configChanges="screenOrientation" in the tag. This way the activity will not be recreated, but will receive a callback instead (which you can ignore as it's not useful for you).