Detect pause/resume in ExoPlayer

Question

I searched two days for this question in github but i can\'t find true answer . I want example for detecting pause / resume in ExoPlayer > 2.x . An

Answer 1

I had the same requirement to detect the click event of exoplayer play/pause button. Above answers were mainly talking about the state not about the button click event.

This is what I did to detect the Play/Pause button click, works perfect.

Step 1: Create custom control dispatcher class and override the method dispatchSetPlayWhenReady

class PlayerControlDispatcher : DefaultControlDispatcher() {
    override fun dispatchSetPlayWhenReady(player: Player?, playWhenReady: Boolean): Boolean {
        if(playWhenReady) {
           // Play button clicked
        } else {
          // Paused button clicked
        }
        return super.dispatchSetPlayWhenReady(player, playWhenReady)
    }
}

Step 2: Set the custom control dispatcher class PlayerControlDispatcher into the the player view.

playerView.setControlDispatcher(PlayerControlDispatcher())

Where playerView is an instance of com.google.android.exoplayer2.ui.PlayerView which we declare in our layout file.