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GestureRecognizer attached to VideoView never gets called.

See original GitHub issue

I have a simple view view to which I am trying to add a gesture recognizer to hide\show the video controls. However, the gesture recognizer never gets hit.

The below is ain a

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
			 xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
			 xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Trial.Helpers;assembly=Trial"
			 xmlns:forms="clr-namespace:Plugin.MediaManager.Forms;assembly=Plugin.MediaManager.Forms"
			 xmlns:plugin="clr-namespace:ImageCircle.Forms.Plugin.Abstractions;assembly=ImageCircle.Forms.Plugin.Abstractions"
			 x:Class="Trial.ViewsModels.VideoPage"
			 Title="{Binding ActivityCode}" BackgroundColor="Black">
	<ContentPage.Resources>
		<ResourceDictionary>
			<local:PrettyDateConverter x:Key="prettyDateConverter" />
		</ResourceDictionary>
	</ContentPage.Resources>
	<ContentPage.ToolbarItems>
		<ToolbarItem Text="Done" Icon="delete.png" x:Name="DoneToolBarItem" />
	</ContentPage.ToolbarItems>
	<StackLayout Orientation="Vertical" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" Margin="0,30,0,20" x:Name="mainStack">
		<Label x:Name="statusLabel" FontSize="Micro" TextColor="#FFFFFF" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" 
			   VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HeightRequest="20"></Label>
		<Grid VerticalOptions="Fill" >
			<Grid.RowDefinitions>
				<RowDefinition Height="10*"/>
				<RowDefinition Height="1*"/>
			</Grid.RowDefinitions>

			<forms:VideoView x:Name="player"
			Grid.Row="0" Grid.RowSpan="1" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" AspectMode="AspectFill"/>

			<Grid HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" Grid.Row="1" Grid.RowSpan="1" x:Name="gridControls">
				<Grid.RowDefinitions>
					<RowDefinition Height="50"/>
				</Grid.RowDefinitions>
				<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
					<ColumnDefinition Width="50"/>
					<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
				</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
				<Button Image="play.png" Grid.Column="0" x:Name="play"></Button>
				<Button Image="pause.png" x:Name="pause" Grid.Column="0"></Button>
				<ProgressBar x:Name="progress" VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand" Grid.Column="1" BackgroundColor="Gray" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"></ProgressBar>
			</Grid>

		</Grid>
	</StackLayout>
</ContentPage>

OnAppearing is as follows:

        protected override void OnAppearing()
        {
            base.OnAppearing();
            CrossMediaManager.Current.Stop();
            CrossMediaManager.Current.StatusChanged += CurrentOnStatusChanged;
            CrossMediaManager.Current.PlayingChanged += OnPlayingChanged;
            player.Source = ca.FollowUpCode;
            pause.IsEnabled = false;
            pause.IsVisible = false;
            play.Clicked += OnPlayClicked;
            pause.Clicked += OnPauseClicked;
            player.AspectMode = VideoAspectMode.AspectFit;
            CrossMediaManager.Current.Stop();
            player.GestureRecognizers.Add(new TapGestureRecognizer 
            {
                Command = new Command(() => {
                    Debug.WriteLine("May be this was what was wrong ");
                }),
                NumberOfTapsRequired = 1
            });

        }

I am not sure what is it that I am doing wrong here.