How to play yt_video by clicking on the listview?

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Hi, I know I post similar question already, but I decided to go with simpler version of playing videos.I have most of the code, but the crucial thing is missing.The thing that I want to accomplish is to play video by clicking on the listview items.I'll explain what kind of app I am making. It's about Metallica band, and I have Fragment that shows Albums, and when you click on of the albums, it opens a new Activity with Tracks inside of said activity.And when you click on of the songs, I want to open yt_video of that song. That's it.My main problem is yt_Activity, cause in TracksActivity I know I have to use Intent.Almost forgot, all my data is stored on Firebase, so in Tracks there is id, title and url of every song in particular.I would be grateful to anyone who could tell me how to solve my problem.

public class YT_activity extends YouTubeFailureRecoveryActivity {

    @BindView(R.id.youtube_view) YouTubePlayerView youtube_view;
    @BindView(R.id.lvTracks) ListView lvTracks;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_yt);
        ButterKnife.bind(this);

        youtube_view.initialize(Youtube_key.getAPI_KEY(),this);
    }

    @Override
    protected YouTubePlayer.Provider getYouTubePlayerProvider() {
        return (YouTubePlayerView) findViewById(R.id.youtube_view);
    }

    @Override
    public void onInitializationSuccess(YouTubePlayer.Provider provider, YouTubePlayer youTubePlayer, boolean wasRestored) {

        if (!wasRestored){

        }

    }
}

public abstract class YouTubeFailureRecoveryActivity extends YouTubeBaseActivity
implements YouTubePlayer.OnInitializedListener{


    private static final int RECOVERY_DIALOG_REQUEST = 1;

    @Override
    public void onInitializationFailure(YouTubePlayer.Provider provider,
                                        YouTubeInitializationResult errorReason) {
        if (errorReason.isUserRecoverableError()) {
            errorReason.getErrorDialog(this, RECOVERY_DIALOG_REQUEST).show();
        } else {
            String errorMessage = String.format(getString(R.string.error_player), errorReason.toString());
            Toast.makeText(this, errorMessage, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        if (requestCode == RECOVERY_DIALOG_REQUEST) {
            // Retry initialization if user performed a recovery action
            getYouTubePlayerProvider().initialize(Youtube_key.getAPI_KEY(), this);
        }
    }

    protected abstract YouTubePlayer.Provider getYouTubePlayerProvider();


}

This is some of the code from TracksActivity:

private List<Track> mapTracks(HashMap<String, HashMap> m) {
        List<Track> r = new ArrayList<>();
        Set<String> keys = m.keySet();
        for (String key : keys) {
            HashMap<String, Object> album = m.get(key);
            String id = (String) album.get("id");
            String title = (String) album.get("title");
            final String url = (String) album.get("url");
            Track t = new Track(id, title, url);
            r.add(t);

            lvTracks.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {

                   Intent intent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(),YT_activity.class);
                    intent.putExtra("position", position);
                    intent.putExtra("url",url);
                    startActivity(intent);



                }
            });


        }
            return r;

        }

    }

What I have tried:

I've tryied to find soulution using Google.

Posted 1-Jan-18 1:25am

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David Crow 2-Jan-18 9:12am

What is the URL of the video you want to play?

Member 13593129 2-Jan-18 10:13am

All my URL's are on Firebase within Tracks(child).Like you can see in a method above lvTracks.setOnItemClickListener.

David Crow 2-Jan-18 10:17am

Not where, but what. What does the URL itself look like (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H02UCzHf-U)?

On your device, do you have the YouTube app installed?

Member 13593129 2-Jan-18 10:25am

It looks like this: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuDaPSdHQ5o"..
Yes, I have an Youtube app on my device.

David Crow 2-Jan-18 10:29am

So then why can't you do (something like) this:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("vnd.youtube:VuDaPSdHQ5o"));    

context.startActivity(intent);

Member 13593129 2-Jan-18 10:41am

I did it like this: lvTracks.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {

Intent appIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("vnd.youtube:" + url));
Intent webIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + url));
// Intent intent = Intent.createChooser(appIntent, "Open With");
Intent i = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), YT_activity.class);
startActivity(i);
try {
context.startActivity(appIntent);
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
context.startActivity(webIntent);
}

But I don't know how to getIntent in YT_Activity.class. And I want when user clicks on some track, to open the video of that track, not to open just one video on every click of different track.

David Crow 2-Jan-18 11:07am

Unless I'm missing something, I do not see the need for your YT_Activity class. All you need to do is put the previous two lines of code in the onItemClick() method.

Once you see that it works (I just tried it and it works fine), you can then extract the actual URL from the ListView's adapter so that the proper track plays.

Member 13593129 2-Jan-18 11:23am

I must have that class cause I'm finishing Android course, and my professor said that I need to have YT class.

David Crow 2-Jan-18 12:12pm

"...I need to have YT class."

For the purpose of what? Because the professor said so, or because it actually provides a need for the problem you are trying to solve?

Since the YouTube app "exposes" an intent for playing videos (see my previous examples), I don't see the need for extra layers in between that intent and your code that selects a URL.

After briefly looking at YouTubeBaseActivity, which you are deriving a class from, it looks as though you are wanting to incorporate a YouTubePlayerView view in your app's UI. This differs greatly from simply passing a URL to the YouTube app. Is that a correct assessment?

As far as calling getIntent() from within YT_Activity, have you tried this in the onCreate() method:

Bundle b = getIntent().getExtras();
if (b != null)
{
    String sPosition = b.getString("position");
    String sURL = b.getString("url");
}

Member 13593129 9-Jan-18 8:31am

I solve my problem. Thanks for the help.

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