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Disable seekforward and seekbackward of mediacontroller android?


I am playing a video from url and I want to disable the seekbar tracking of the video. How can it be done.

This my code:

videoUrl = "http://download.itcuties.com/teaser/itcuties-teaser-480.mp4";
    videoview.setVideoPath(videoUrl);
    mediaController = new MediaController(this, false);
    int topContainerId = getResources().getIdentifier("mediacontroller_progress", "id", "android");
    seekBarVideo=(SeekBar)mediaController.findViewById(topContainerId);
    seekBarVideo.setEnabled(false);
    mediaController.setAnchorView(videoview);
    videoview.setMediaController(mediaController);

The app crashes: seekBarVideo.setEnabled(false);

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at com.vfirst.offers.VideoBufferActivity.onClick(VideoBufferActivity.java:93)
        at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:4575)
        at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:18578)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:733)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5127)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:825)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:641)
        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Solution

  • Was able to solve with help of this

    Need to get seekbar in onPreparedListener of videoview

     videoview.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
            @Override
            public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
                int topContainerId = getResources().getIdentifier("mediacontroller_progress", "id", "android");
                seekBarVideo = (SeekBar) mediaController.findViewById(topContainerId);
                seekBarVideo.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser) {
    
                    }
    
                    @Override
                    public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
                        seekBar.setEnabled(false);
                    }
    
                    @Override
                    public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
                        seekBar.setEnabled(false);
                    }
                });
            }
        });