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rupps
rupps

Reputation: 9887

YoutubeSupportFragment on Chromecast remote display: Keeping in the background

I am developing a ChromeCast app that instances a YoutubeSupportFragment in the presentation display.

My problem is, when the app goes background, Youtube video is stopped. I've traced that YoutubeSupportFragment's onPause pauses the video.

Is there a way to somehow attach the fragment lifecycle to the CastRemoteDisplayLocalService so fragment's onPause is not called?

I've tried to set the fragment as retained with setRetainInstance but no luck :(

Upvotes: 2

Views: 117

Answers (2)

plátano plomo
plátano plomo

Reputation: 1737

I believe @noogui is correct in that you can't disable onPause. Making it easy to bind the state of fragments/activities to a persistent service would defeat the purpose of having fragments/activities; Android wants to be able to kill the YoutubeSupportFragment if memory runs low.

I haven't tried this, but there may be an alternative route. You can display an iframe in a receiver app per this answer, and there is an API for embedding the Youtube video player in an iframe. So instead of using the Cast RemoteDisplayAPI, why not write a custom receiver app to hold the video player? This should allow you to continue playing video whether or not the Android app is backgrounded.

Upvotes: 0

ReyAnthonyRenacia
ReyAnthonyRenacia

Reputation: 17613

I dont think there's a way of disabling onPause as it is at the core of the Anroid lifecycle.

Upvotes: 1

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