Listening to player events

You can listen to various playback and player related events directly with the API.

Obtain API handle

To use the API, you need to have a handle to the FlowplayerView that implements the Flowplayer interface.

Refer to the player initialization documentation on how to create a player instance.

Create event listener

To make your player listen to playback/player events, you need to create a class that will implement the EventListener interface of the respective event. Then you create an instance of this class and pass it to the player:

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flowplayerView.addEventListener(new MyEventListener())

Available events and their listener interfaces:

AdBreakCompleteEvent - OnAdBreakCompleteListener
AdBreakStartEvent - OnAdBreakStartListener
AdClickEvent - OnAdClickListener
AdCompleteEvent - OnAdCompleteListener
AdErrorEvent - OnAdErrorListener
AdPauseEvent - OnAdPauseListener
AdResumeEvent - OnAdResumeListener
AdSkipEvent - OnAdSkipListener
AdStartEvent - OnAdStartListener
BufferEvent - OnBufferListener
CompletEvent - OnCompleteListener
ErrorEvent - OnErrorListener
FullscreenEvent - OnFullscreenListener
IdleEvent - OnIdleListener
MuteEvent - OnMuteListener
PauseEvent - OnPauseListener
PlayEvent - OnPlayListener
SpeedEvent - OnSpeedListener
VolumeEvent - OnVolumeListener

Refer to the API documentation for a full reference.

Example: looping player

In this example we are inheriting our Activity from FlowplayerFragment. The activity will then listen to the OnCompleteEvent and seek the player back to the beginning of the video and resume playback.

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class MyActivity : FlowplayerFragment, OnCompleteListener {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

        // Obtain playerFragment (from XML or programmatically)
        // Check the "Creating player instance documentation" for more information
        getPlayerFragment().getPlayer().addEventListener(this)
    }

    override fun onComplete(event: CompleteEvent) {
        // We want to listen to the complete event and seek to beginning to loop the content
        val player = getPlayerFragment().getPlayer()
        player.seek(0) // Seek to beginning
        player.play() // Resume playback
    }
}