FullscreenVideoView — VideoView gone fullscreen

I was once given the task to create a VideoView with fullscreen functionality. It was a great challenge because the default VideoView doesn’t have this included by default. I searched all over the Internet and didn’t find an appropriate solution for this.

So I’ve decided to make a library called FullscreenVideoView. It does the same as the first part of its name loudly presents — goes fullscreen on orientation change (if enabled by the user) or by clicking on the fullscreen button. It’s a combination of several classes, that handle the orientation change, a video controller, a media player and the actual FullscreenVideoView class.

How to setup the library?

Add FullscreenVideoView to your layout’s XML file:

2. Set the video file or its URL:

3. The Activity should handle configuration changes and you need to add the configChanges attribute to the AndroidManifest:

You’re probably thinking “Is that all?”

Yes, that is all you have to do to get the library to work.

Advanced usage

You can enable video auto-start which is disabled by default:

Customize drawables, by passing drawable resource ids:

or drawable objects:

Change the fast rewind/fast forward intervals:

Change the progressbar color by passing a color resource id:

How orientation change can be handled?

To avoid passing wrong orientation for portrait or landscape, I created PortraitOrientation and LandscapeOrientation enums. They wrap the portrait and landscape orientation constants from ActivityInfo which are described here.

Enable/disable the pause, fast-forward or rewind:

Change the playback speed (only for API 23 and above)

The speed of the video can be changed with the library methods below. There are 7 playback speed values which are added by default, but they can be changed with custom ones when playbackSpeedOptions is used.