Videoview Pausing and resuming Videoview Pausing and resuming android android

Videoview Pausing and resuming


You can use this

@Overridepublic void onPause() {    Log.d(TAG, "onPause called");    super.onPause();    stopPosition = videoView.getCurrentPosition(); //stopPosition is an int    videoView.pause();}@Overridepublic void onResume() {    super.onResume();    Log.d(TAG, "onResume called");    videoView.seekTo(stopPosition);    videoView.start(); //Or use resume() if it doesn't work. I'm not sure}

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Shouldn't use video.pause(), video.resume(), because when you call it, the buffering data will be lost. That is also the reason WHY VideoView play at BEGINNING whenever you call video.resume().See it:VideoView onResume loses buffered portion of the video

Solution:

VideoView videoView;MediaPlayer mp;videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {            @Override            public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {                this.mp = mp;            }        });public void pause(){    //NOT videoview.pause(); Needn't save Stop position    if (mp != null){       mp.pause();    }}public void resume(){    //NOT videoview.resume();    if (mp != null){       mp.start(); //Video will begin where it stopped    }   }


Instead of resume(), use start() again.
It will start the playback from the point where you paused the video.