使用Intent Chooser时视频会自动恢复

Question

I have an application which opens different videos using Intent chooser. So you can imagine user clicks on the list item which contains many elements with name of the video.

Now, the thing is working fine with this,

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(uriPath, "video/mp4");
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);

but when the user again clicks on the same item, the intent chooser is shown. Selecting any video player in the device resumes the video.

So the question is, Is there any flag or some way in which the video can be started from the beginning ?

This thing not only happens with video but with pdf's. If an pdf was open and scrolled to the last page, then again opening the pdf again from my application opens it with the last page.

Answer 1

 hi hardikI had a similar application to be developed where  different 

videos should be played when select different items from a list view.

I tried to test my application for the behavior that the video resumes from last played frame if launch again from the app.

For me it always starts from the beginning. I have tested this on 4.2.2 and 4.4 versions only

The code to start the video was something like this:

    Intent in = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    in.setDataAndType(uripath, "video/*");
    startActivity(in);

Answer 2

This question is answered here already Android play video intent with start position , particularly in this comment from CommonsWare

Even if there were, they would be on a per-app basis.
If you need this level of control over the video playback,
handle the video playback yourself within your own app 
(e.g., VideoView), rather than pass control to third party apps

See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/VideoView.html#seekTo(int) and Playing a video in VideoView in Android

When you delegate to another application with an intent, you get what you get. You should control this within your app using the video player, and if you probably need a library for a pdf view widget. Something like http://code.google.com/p/apv/ .

Answer 3

As you use an intent to play the video, it is really up to the acting application how to interpret and handle the intent. Unless the acting application (the one handling the intent you're firing) accepts extra parameters to choose between start-from-beginning and resume, there is really not much you can do.

For full control, use your own video player.

Answer 4

Use VideoView to resolve your problem.

private VideoView myVideoView;

VideoView has an inbuilt method start() which will start your video from the beginning like this:

 @Override
    public void onStart(){
        super.onStart();
        myVideoView.start();
    }

You can also use the myVideoView.start() on onResume method as well.

Hope this would help. :)

Answer 5

I am completely unsure of this. I also agree on the other views that it is the responsibility of the called Application to handle the intent as it wishes.

However, a wild guess would be to change the uri:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(
    uriPath.buildUpon()
        .appendQueryParameter("t", String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis()))
        .build(), 
    "video/mp4"
);
intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);

Note: I did not have the problem that you are mentioning. The video always restarted.