A MediaController is a view containing controls for a MediaPlayer. Typically contains the buttons like "Play/Pause", "Rewind", "Fast Forward" and a progress slider. It takes care of synchronizing the controls with the state of the MediaPlayer.
Questions tagged [mediacontroller]
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Android VideoView Playback Controls Show "Play" Initially Instead of "Pause" Even Though File is Already Playing
Good afternoon/morning! Hoping someone could help me out with a small problem I'm having. I'm playing a remote .mp3 file using a VideoView and a custom MediaController.
My MediaController looks like this:
public class MyMediaController extends…

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Android remove Fastforward and rewind buttons from mediaplayer
I would Like to remove the fastforward and rewind buttons from mediacontroller in Android. Can anyone help me with this? I want to do it inside my main activity.

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Extending MediaController for android
I am using a VideoView and the MediaController for an app I am working on. I simply wanted to have the MediaController appear on top of my VideoView but apparently you can't do that very easily. I attempted to use the setAnchorView method to my…

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Android : What use is MediaController's AnchorView?
I would like my MediaController to hide only when the user touches only the bottom half part of the screen, because i have some buttons on the top part that need to be accessible with one click.
That is, without the first click being intercepted by…

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Exoplayer hide PlaybackControlView onClick (not onTouch)
I am developing a custom UI on top of ExoPlayer, and I noticed that the controls (PlaybackControlView) hide when I touch the screen, not when I click.
I wanted to change to a click and checked how I can change the event listener, but so far could…

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Android: How to call MediaController fast forward and rewind using KeyEvents
Hi I am using mediacontroller to control my mediaplayer, I want to control using keyEvents rather than touchevents, I am using the code below to do that, but only Play/Pause is working, where as KEYCODE_MEDIA_FAST_FORWARD and KEYCODE_MEDIA_REWIND…

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Android - MediaController leaking on activity
I am using MediaPlayer and MediaController objects to stream audio. When closing the activity I am getting a window leaked exception.
I have the following in my activity which doesn't help at all.
@Override
protected void onStop() {
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How to set Media Controller over the video?
I created simple video view application it's working fine. I have added layoutparams to video view and added videoview into one layout position, that time my media controller showing out of the region but i wish to show media controller over the…

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mediacontroller does not work on nexus 7 tab
I have an android code for playing a video using videoview and control buttons such as pause,rewind and forward using mediacontroller. It works on nexus S as well as many samsung phones, but the mediacontroller buttons dont seem to work on nexus 7!…

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MediaController - Error when Show() called
I have this code for show the MediaController, but it give me a fatal error when I'm calling to Show() method.
The MediaPlayer itself working on Service and get Intent from the MediaPlayerControl interface.
My code:
@Override
protected void…

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Make MediaController show without hide
I try to use MediaController to play music.
I want the MediaController appear until the "back" button is pressed.
Now I have try below code:
MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this){
@Override
public void…

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How to catch event when click pause/play button on MediaController
How to catch event when click pause/play button on MediaController.
i try onKey,onTouch - and then i click on pause/play button on MediaController did nothing happened.

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Media Session connector #onCommand not getting called
I am building a simple media app following the android official app. But in my case, I need to fetch URL of each clip from remote and then create a mediaId out of it and then play an audio clip. This means that I need to update my media data very…

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remove active song from media session in android
I have an app that is using the Android MediaSession and MediaBrowserConnection to play songs and have a playlist. I am a bit stuck on how to remove the current playing song when someone wants to clear the entire playlist. I can easily remove all of…

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How to customize YouTube Player style MINIMAL to hide seek bar and enable play/pause control in android
I am using YouTube API in my android application. I need to disable some controls of the YouTube player. So that i used YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle enum class.
youTubePlayer.setPlayerStyle(YouTubePlayer.PlayerStyle.MINIMAL);
But in this case, A…

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