I'm afraid I may have oversimplified, it would appear I have two different issues that need to be addressed..
as regards the media player, I am mostly interested in maintaining playback across orientation changes.. losing the mediaplayer state on release of focus is not a problem (and indeed, i should probably look into coding that part first, as I think I understand how to do at least that portion of it). as for the HttpClient, I'm using it to login and establish a session with a site that then returns the url for the mediaplayer to load; ideally I would like to preserve this session across both orientation changes and app exit/entry events (I'm beginning to understand that these are effectively the same thing... I think?). so, those things being said, I'm afraid I don't yet understand any of the suggestions made here, and would greatly appreciate any greater detail (or examples!) that could be provided. thanks again, -br On Dec 8, 7:01 pm, Dave Sparks <davidspa...@android.com> wrote: > The HTTP session isn't controlled by the Java application, the media > framework has its own HTTP client. > > The Java proxy object for the network session is the MediaPlayer > object which is owned by VideoView. You could retain a reference to > the VideoView object across the orientation change, so that it keeps > its internal MediaPlayer reference. You need to be careful because > holding on to a MediaPlayer object can have significant implications > on battery life, so you want to make sure you release it if your > activity no longer has the focus. > > Unfortunately, the current VideoView design doesn't work well for > restoring state because it starts playing immediately after setVideoURI > (). > > On Dec 7, 12:59 am, ben rosenberg <ben.rosenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hey folks, > > > to make a long story short, I'm working on an app that plays streaming > > video content in a VideoView with aMediaController; Im wondering how > > I can preserve the state of my VideoView across orientation changes, > > such that opening the keyboard doesn't restart the playback, etc.. > > > I've been messing around with onSaveInstanceState, but Im fairly > > certain I'm missing something (possibly Parcelized objects?) .. > > Ideally i think I'd like to save and restore the state of the > > MediaPlayer, as well as an HttpClient (or at least its cookiejar) ... > > I suspect this will have to be done with Parcelables, but I don't > > quite have my head around how those work (and the Notepad example > > hasn't helped).. > > > any suggestions, or especially code or pseudocode examples, would be > > greatly apprectiated --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
