Using Picture-in-picture feature with Android O

Question

I have created an android app to check the feature Picture In Picture mode of Android O. But i facing an error while running this application.

setPictureInPictureArgs: Device doesn't support picture-in-picture mode

 java.lang.IllegalStateException: setPictureInPictureArgs: Device doesn't support picture-in-picture mode.
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1923)
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1861)
       at android.app.IActivityManager$Stub$Proxy.setPictureInPictureArgs(IActivityManager.java:9378)
       at android.app.Activity.setPictureInPictureArgs(Activity.java:1984)
       at com.example.pip.MainActivity.updatePictureInPictureActions(MainActivity.java:156)
       at com.example.pip.MainActivity$2.onMovieStarted(MainActivity.java:101)
       at com.example.pip.widget.MovieView.play(MovieView.java:350)
       at com.example.pip.widget.MovieView$3.onPrepared(MovieView.java:384)
       at android.media.MediaPlayer$EventHandler.handleMessage(MediaPlayer.java:3170)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:156)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6440)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
       at com.android.internal.os.Zygote$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(Zygote.java:240)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:746)

Your device isn't running Android O, so is throwing this exception as PiP isn't supported. — Milk, Sep 14 '17 at 19:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '20 at 12:35

Sometimes devices running on Android-O and above but unable to run PIP because it is disabled by the device due to low RAM size.

So, before your app uses PIP, it is better to check feature is available or not by calling hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_PICTURE_IN_PICTURE).

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
        if (getPackageManager().hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_PICTURE_IN_PICTURE)) {
            //your code
        }
    }

Reference: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/picture-in-picture#best

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '17 at 06:27

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This issue is no longer reproducible in the stable version of Android O.

answered Nov 03 '17 at 06:27

Rahul M Mohan

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I got the same error for android 8.1 so I don't think that it is an OS-level bug. – Aashish Kumar May 06 '20 at 07:50

Using Picture-in-picture feature with Android O

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