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user1961461
user1961461

Reputation: 51

Is it possible to play YouTube audio when android device is sleeping?

is it possible to play youtube videos in a service while the device screen is locked (display off)? The YouTube API provides several ways, how to play a video, however, when I lock the device the playback stops. Android MediaPlayer can be simply played from a service and screen lock doesn't affect it...

Anyone has some experiences in this?

Any advice is very appreciated!

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2861

Answers (1)

Sebastiano
Sebastiano

Reputation: 12339

The YouTube SDK prevents videos from being played in the background, simply because any existing YouTubePlayer instance is destroyed when the Activity/Fragment that contains it is paused/stopped/destroyed.

Moreover, it detects when the video player is being covered (both partially or totally) by another view.

Upvotes: 1

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