Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

Custom video controls

The VideoView is great for displaying videos with a basic set of controls; however, we may require more flexibility and control over how the video is played.

How to do it...

We can play a video onto a SurfaceView using a MediaPlayer instance if we need fine control over what we can do or if we want custom video controls:

1. First, when using a SurfaceView instance, we need to implement the ISurfaceHolderCallback interface, ensuring that we keep track of the surface:

   public class MainActivity : Activity, ISurfaceHolderCallback { private ISurfaceHolder surfaceHolder; public void SurfaceChanged( ISurfaceHolder holder, Format format, int width, int height) { } public void SurfaceCreated(ISurfaceHolder holder) { surfaceHolder = holder; ...