Android: Why can't I give an onClickListener t

Question

I have written these lines of code:

 mVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video_view);
    mVideoView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Log.v("LOG_TAG, click");
        }
    });

However, when I run my application, the click event is never called.

So I wonder, is it impossible to register an OnClickListener on a VideoView? And, if so, why is that the case?

Answer 1

I know this is old but I used this:

    mVideoView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener()
    {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {

            Log.i(TAG, "Video 1 clicked, starting playback");

            return false;
        }
    });

Answer 2

This is probably long overdue, nonetheless of some help to those who may run into a similar problem. The way I got around this problem was by laying a transparent image view right on top of the video view, then listening to onClick events on the image view, and doing whatever it was I wanted to do with the video view afterwards.

Answer 3

You can well use a button which is transparent on the video view if you want a specific part of the video on touch to do something.

Answer 4

You might try Gesture Overlay View

You should be able to overlay this view on top of another view in order to get touch events.

Hope this helps!

Answer 5

Here's how I solved the pause/play of VideoViews using onTouch:

// Class variables
private boolean bVideoIsBeingTouched = false;
private Handler mHandler = new Handler();

vvVideo.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    if (!bVideoIsBeingTouched) {
        bVideoIsBeingTouched = true;
    if (vvVideo.isPlaying()) {
        vvVideo.pause();
    } else {
        vvVideo.resume();
    }
    mHandler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            bVideoIsBeingTouched = false;
        }
        }, 100);
    }
    return true;
    }
});

Answer 6

I know this is and old question, but here is what I did:

Since setOnClickListener is not been triggered, I created my own class which extends VideoView

public class VideoViewCustom extends VideoView{

and Overrided the onTouchEvent

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {

    if(ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN){
        Log.d(TAG, "ACTION_DOWN");
    }

    return super.onTouchEvent(ev);
}

and now I can get the onClick event with the MotionEvent.

Hope this helps someone!