Several improvements of the ExoPlayer component

[Red_Panda (Red Panda Apps)]

Hello everyone,
when I used the ExoPlayer component for my music player, I found several issues

1. SeekTo is not working as expected

I discovered that the functionality is more like “SeekBy” because the player position is set by adding the position value to the player’s current position

2. The player stops when the screen turns off

See the issue described here

Exoplayer about 10 or 15 minutes the application closes when the screen turns off

I was using Taifun Player, but I read that it gave problems on some Chinese smartphones and some locks appeared on the play console. Then I read through the forum that exoplayer also allows looping and I tried it. But while TaifunPlayer does not close the application even if the screen turns off, exoplayer about 10 or 15 minutes closes. I’ve tried it on a smartphone with Android 6.0.1 and in the android studio emulator with android 9.0 with the same result. Also say that I tried tricks like leav…

3. The player doesn’t react to headphone buttons

Not really an issue, but I think that the component should take control over that. Maybe with MediaSession as described here Headset Fastforward and Rewind not working · Issue #5719 · google/ExoPlayer · GitHub

4. Executing seekTo immediately after setSource does not work

Doing so will still start the file from the beginning. If I execute seekTo with a delay of more than 100 ms, the player player starts at the right position

Please verify that I’m not the only one with these issues

[Taifun]

see this thread

Exoplayer about 10 or 15 minutes the application closes when the screen turns off

Kodular is currently using ExoPlayer version 2.8.2 (2018-06-06) I got a hint from @Boban how to find this after decompiling the APK: [grafik] The current ExoPlayer version is 2.11.3 (2020-02-19): ExoPlayer/RELEASENOTES.md at release-v2 · google/ExoPlayer · GitHub [grafik] I really hope @Kodular updates the ExoPlayer to this current version soon, because the ExoPlayer version 2.8.2 is completely unusable due to the issues in background / standby (sleep mode). As long as this has not happen…

'Taifun

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Red_Panda

Doing so will still start the file from the beginning. If I execute seekTo with a delay of more than 100 ms, the player player starts at the right position

Yes, set the ExoPlayer.Source in another block beforehand or use a timer. Otherwise also ExoPlayer.Duration is not executed correctly. So put ExoPlayer.Source e.g. already at Screen.Initialize.

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

Note:
Due to the serious issues in standby / background, however, I strongly recommend that you no longer use the ExoPlayer (at least temporarily until there may be a fix, but I honestly have little hope).

[Red_Panda (Red Panda Apps)]

For the devs Troubleshooting - ExoPlayer

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

Unfortunately, this does not solve the problem.