Mediaplyer controls overlap sidebar - hide mediaplayer buttons via code?

[Gareth Murfin]

On Android if the media player buttons are showing (like I tapped the mediaplayer) then I open my side menu, then the controls from the mediaplayer overlap the side menu, is there a way to avoid this ? Or perhaps a line of code that can hide the controls on the mediaplayer when I open my side menu ? I know its kind of an edge case but it looks really odd when it happens, sort of thing clients dont like :)

[Shai Almog]

There is this:

Media someMedia = ...
...
someMedia.setVariable(Media.VARIABLE_NATIVE_CONTRLOLS_EMBEDDED, false); // hides native controls

or

someMedia.setVariable(Media.VARIABLE_NATIVE_CONTRLOLS_EMBEDDED, true); // shows native controls

[Gareth Murfin]

perfect, you guys have thought of everything, thanks!

[Gareth Murfin]

thanks it works but then theyre turned off for good, ie user can close side menu but then cant play video. Is there any event I can use to detect when the side menu is closed? (since user can tap outside of it to shut it, I cant detect re-tapping the hamburger menu)

[Shai Almog]

There is no event for side menu folding. We could possibly add that but it won't be soon as we're gearing towards the 6.0 release.

[Gareth Murfin]

nice one, looking forward to 6.0 :) yeh i think it would be a good feature for people with similar issues.