Getting informed about user actions

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Official ExoPlayer documentation and source code of MediaControllerCompat, MediaSessionConnector, MediaSession classes.

Question

Is it possible to get notified about user actions? I’m using ExoPlayer and MediaSessionConnector for handling MediaSession, so I’m not able to register MediaSession.Callback, that would have solved my problem, because it can be registered only once and it is done inside of MediaSessionConnector class.

I would like to be informed about user actions like “PLAY”, “PAUSE”, “SKIP TO NEXT”, “SKIP TO PREVIOUS” etc. The only way to do it, I have found, is to register MediaControllerCompat.Callback, that has onPlaybackStateChanged method. The problem is that after testing it, I have found that only states that are dispatched to this method are STATE_NONE, STATE_PAUSED, STATE_PLAYING and STATE_BUFFERING. There are other states like STATE_SKIPPING_TO_PREVIOUS, STATE_SKIPPING_TO_NEXT I would like to be notified about, but it never happens.

[marcbaechinger]

I think in this case it’s best to register an EventListener with player.addListener(eventListener).

The player will call onPositionDiscontinuity(int reason) and pass a reason. If it’s a seek by the user (skip is a seek) the reason is Player.DISCONTINUITY_REASON_SEEK. If playback transitioned automatically the reason is Player.DISCONTINUITY_REASON_PERIOD_TRANSITION.

You may also want to look into AnalyticsListener if you want to collect other events. You can add it by using SimpleExoPlayer.addAnalyticsListener(AnalyticsListener).

[marcbaechinger]

Great to hear. I’m closing this issue. Please re-open if needed.