Apps Stopping Video within SwipeView

[gazzieh]

Partly putting this up because it will eventually help others looking for a solution but also because I have no solution yet.

I have an app that uses SwipeView. 4 pages in all, each page with some text and a video (different on each page).

Currently you can click on a video then swipe to the next page and click on the next video whilst the other still plays. You could potentially have all 4 videos playing at the same time.

How can I stop a video playing once the page it is on is not the one with the SwipeView focus?

 

[out of ideas]

do you stil have

onTabUnselected?

maybe try stopping the video player in there?


videoView.stop(); //or something similar

 

[gazzieh]

It does indeed but there is a strange reaction to this. Page 1 to Page 2 works fine and Pages 3 and 4 appear fine but Page 2 to Page 1 and the video continues.

Also, some of the videos take several taps to begin playing again!

I missed the code first time I submitted this so:

[HIGH]@Override
public void onTabUnselected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction)
{
VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.vidView);
if (videoView.isPlaying()) {videoView.stopPlayback();}
}[/HIGH]

 

[gazzieh]

A semi-workaround was to replace the .stopPlayback() with a .pause() and a .seek(0).

Now all the videos play and the videos either stop when I swipe to another page or they stop when I swipe and then return. Not ideal but since time is now almost gone this will work for deployment and then I can update it later (this is a single tablet app so not sending it out to anything or anyone else).