mccFeb 20, 2023

Continuing to work on upgrading Tusky's video playback to Exoplayer.

There are two things I don't understand about Exoplayer:

Why do the controls dim the video when they're visible? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75514491/why-do-exoplayer-media3-controls-dim-the-video

How do I move the buttons away from the center of the screen? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75515091/how-to-reposition-exoplayer-media3-control-buttons

Anybody ever worked with Android Exoplayer…?

Why do exoplayer/media3 controls dim the video?

I am using exoplayer2 via androidx.media3:media3-exoplayer:1.0.0-beta03. I have a androidx.media3.ui.PlayerView in my XML layout, and then in my code I am creating an Exoplayer with ExoPlayer.Build...

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Show threadGary KatsevmanFeb 21, 2023
@mcc a lot of players have a dark backdrop behind all the controls so that there's enough contrast between the video and controls for accessibility reasons. I don't know whether that's the case for exoplayer.
Unfortunately, I'm unsure if that's configurable or not. Should be possible if you use your own controls, but then you have to do your own controls.
Show threadGary Katsevman

@mcc it might be this setting? https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View#attr_android:background not sure, though.

Haven't done exoplayer, really. Mostly dealt with webplayers.

Feb 21, 2023 at 12:39amWeb