Hi,

I need to know the duration for which a user watched a video. In other words, I need know what the currentPosition was immediately before onCompletion() was invoked.

Is there any easy way to figure this out through the media APIs?

Cheers,
Glen

glenandroid wrote:Hi,

I need to know the duration for which a user watched a video. In other words, I need know what the currentPosition was immediately before onCompletion() was invoked.

Is there any easy way to figure this out through the media APIs?

Cheers,
Glen

May be MediaPlayer.getDuration helps you.

Thanks for the response but It doesn't help in this case: getCurrentPosition () tells us the current playback position, getDuration() the duration of the file. But once onCompletion() is called I no longer get the values that I need.

I think to solve the problem we need a thread that is running at the same time as the MediaPlayer to periodically check the current position with getCurrentPosition().

But I was hoping for a much simpler solution such as the MediaPlayer reporting the final position of the playback.

Scratch that I've decided to re-implement this code using a streaming solution Cheers.

I did solve this in the end. The code was using a VideoView. It was possible to call getCurrentPosition from the activity's onPause method.