Adding looping within VideoView

I'm having a bit of trouble with a small application I've put together in Android Studio. Essentially the application is suppose to launch - autoplay a video and keep looping until touched...

I've got everything bar the looping working - I've tried a few suggestions from here but none have worked in my case (or not had the coding skills to get them to...)

Main code below

package com.pixel.danny.screensaverhfx;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.VideoView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
VideoView videoView = findViewById(R.id.videoView);
Uri uri=Uri.parse("android.resource://"+getPackageName()+"/"+R.raw.hab);
videoView.setVideoURI(uri);
videoView.requestFocus();

videoView.start();
videoView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{
@Override
public void onClick(View v)
{
finish();
}
}); }
}


as you mention autoplay a video and keep looping until touched which means you want to pause videos or what???
– Gowthaman M
2 days ago

Sorry, no the app exits when touched - It's basically a screensaver.
– Danny
2 days ago

remove this line finish(); so that your app not exits.it will keep play...
– Gowthaman M
2 days ago

finish();

I want to keep the finish() that is what makes the app exit when touched - all I want to do is add the looping so the video keeps playing until I touch it to exit.
– Danny
2 days ago

2 Answers
2

what below code is doing when you are touch the Videoview you are finish the activity so app will get close....

Videoview

videoView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{
@Override
public void onClick(View v)
{
finish(); //remove this line
videoView.stopPlayback() // you can use this for stopPlay
}
});


So remove finish(); you problem got reslove

finish();

and if you want to looping

videoView.setOnCompletionListener(new MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener() {
@Override
public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Video completed", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
videoView.start(); //it will start again
}
});


The code above (the looping part) flags up lots of errors in the code
– Danny
2 days ago

@Danny ok fine.then keep finish(); method...please check my update answer..still you getting any issues let me know...with error log
– Gowthaman M
2 days ago

Thanks for the help Gowthaman just updated the code with what you've edited above but getting the error : error: non-static method start() cannot be referenced from a static context
– Danny
2 days ago

I've created a pastebin to show my code so far in case it's my placement etc link
– Danny
2 days ago

okay so I found the answer - I declared VideoView as Final and then your code above worked! Thanks for the help!
– Danny
2 days ago

Instead of calling finish(); rather call videoView.stopPlayback()

finish();

videoView.stopPlayback()

I call finish() so that the app exits when I touch it
– Danny
2 days ago

finish()

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