MediaController appear on demand only

Question

I have a video player in my android app. By default, the MediaController becomes visible upon playing for 3 seconds, if no activity.

The app goes through a series of short clips and that is fine, however, the MediaController pops up every time the video changes.

Is it possible to have it only show on demand (tapping the video view)?

I tried calling controller.hide() and controller.show(0) after I call vidPlayer.start(), but neither have worked. Any ideas?

I found my solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6679959/android-hiding-media-controller-functions. I had to change a few things, but the solution there works for the most part — Ronnie, Oct 28 '11 at 18:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 17 '12 at 05:38

final MediaController mc = new MediaController(this);

    vView.setMediaController(new MediaController(this)
    {
        @Override
        public void hide()
        {
            mc.show();
        }

        }); 
    vView.setMediaController(mc);

    vView.start();

MediaController appear on demand only

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