MediaController always show on Android

Question

I am using mediacontroller in my app, but it shows only for 3 seconds. I have searched a lot, but in every document I see only the show function, set time out, but it has no effect. How can I always show mediacontroller?

I have tested show(0), but it had no effect.

Answer 1

You can extend the MediaController class and programmatically set an instance of it to a VideoView class:

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.MediaController;

public class MyMediaController extends MediaController {
    public MyMediaController(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public MyMediaController(Context context, boolean useFastForward) {
        super(context, useFastForward);
    }

    public MyMediaController(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    @Override
    public void show(int timeout) {
        super.show(0);
    }

}

Here's the usage:

VideoView myVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.my_video_view);
MediaController mc = new MyMediaController(myVideoView.getContext());
mc.setMediaPlayer(myVideoView);
myVideoView.setMediaController(mc);