Android: Why can't I give an onClickListener to a VideoView?

Question

I have written these lines of code:

 mVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video_view);
    mVideoView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
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Answer 1

This is probably long overdue, nonetheless of some help to those who may run into a similar problem. The way I got around this problem was by laying a transparent image view right on top of the video view, then listening to onClick events on the image view, and doing whatever it was I wanted to do with the video view afterwards.

Answer 2

You can solve this issue through cover layout. I used the linearlayout.

            <LinearLayout
                android:id="@+id/video1"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center">
                <VideoView
                    android:id="@+id/video2"
                    android:layout_width="370dp"
                    android:layout_height="180dp"
                    android:layout_gravity="center"
                    app:elevation = "0dp"
                    android:background="@mipmap/video"
                    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
                    android:visibility="visible"
                    />

            </LinearLayout>

and try it in source file.

video1.setOnClickListener {
                if(Video.isPlaying) {
                    Video.pause()
                }
                else {
                    Video.start()
                }
}

Answer 3

Here's how I solved the pause/play of VideoViews using onTouch:

// Class variables
private boolean bVideoIsBeingTouched = false;
private Handler mHandler = new Handler();

vvVideo.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    if (!bVideoIsBeingTouched) {
        bVideoIsBeingTouched = true;
    if (vvVideo.isPlaying()) {
        vvVideo.pause();
    } else {
        vvVideo.resume();
    }
    mHandler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            bVideoIsBeingTouched = false;
        }
        }, 100);
    }
    return true;
    }
});

Answer 4

You might try Gesture Overlay View

You should be able to overlay this view on top of another view in order to get touch events.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

use VideoView.setOnTouchListener(..) it works for VideoView