How to use a Seekbar in android as a seekBar as well as a progressBar simultaneously?

Question

I intend to write a custom media controller for my app. I was planning to use seekbar to do both seeking and showing progress. Trying to implement this.

Does anyone have such implementation or am I on the wrong path ?

Mistletoe

Answer 1

Finally I figured it out!!

The solution that I came up with was something like this :

First of all set the max progress for seekbar as the duration of the video

videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {

        @Override
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {

            seekBar.setMax(videoView.getDuration());
            seekBar.postDelayed(onEverySecond, 1000);
        }
    });

This runnable will keep on updating the progressbar :

private Runnable onEverySecond=new Runnable() {

    @Override
    public void run() {

        if(seekBar != null) {
            seekBar.setProgress(videoView.getCurrentPosition());
        }

        if(videoView.isPlaying()) {
            seekBar.postDelayed(onEverySecond, 1000);
        }

    }
};

And then the setOnSeekBarChangeListener for the seekbar can be used to take the user seeks on the media. By using the fromUser boolean we can make out whether it was a call back due to user's interaction or the

seekBar.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new OnSeekBarChangeListener() {

        @Override
        public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress,
                boolean fromUser) {

            if(fromUser) {
                // this is when actually seekbar has been seeked to a new position
                videoView.seekTo(progress);
            }
        }
    });

Mistletoe

great ! but when video go to end and i want to play videoView.start() it again seekBar not working , how to resolve this problem ? – Sanction

Answer 2

You set the seconday progress.

No, you're on the right track. It is very good for displaying stuff like download progress and current location for streams (media).

Vasculum

Thanks for the reply. But I am using secondary progress to show the streamed amount. I am posting below what I have come up with. – Mistletoe