YouTubeTimeBar

A TimeBar in YouTube-style providing Chapters, Image-Preview and Segments.

Features

• Chapters: Divide the TimeBar into pieces to highlight them during scrubbing
• Preview: Tweak the seek experience by showing image preview, timestamps and - if you're using chapters - an additional title
• Segments: Mark parts colorfully
• Extends from ExoPlayer's TimeBar, so you can use it the same way as DefaultTimeBar
• Notch-observable

Sample app

The sample app lets you test the features by turning them on and off. You can find the latest APK under the Release section. Currently the app supports portrait mode only, an additional landscape toggle is added later.

Download

The Gradle dependency is available via jitpack.io. To be able to load this library, you have to add the repository to your project's gradle file:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

Then, in your app's directory, you can include it the same way like other libraries:

android {
    ...
    // If you face problems during building you should try including the below lines if you
    // haven't already
  
    // compileOptions {
    //   sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    //   targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    // }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.vkay94:YouTubeTimeBar:{latest_version}'
}

The minimum API level supported by this library is API 16. There is also a version based on ExoPlayer version 2.11.8 if your project doesn't use the latest version and its changes.

Getting started

The full feature consists of two Views, YouTubeTimeBar and YouTubeTimeBarPreview, but you can also use the TimeBar as standalone with chapter and segment support.

YouTubeTimeBar

You can either put the View as a replacement of DefaultTimeBar - just make sure that ExoPlayer's id is matching (@id/exo_progress) - or use it as a progress bar outside of the controls and update the values manually (you can find an example implementation here):

<FrameLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >
    
    <com.github.vkay94.timebar.YouTubeTimeBar
        android:id="@+id/youtubeTimeBar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
        
</FrameLayout>

YouTubeTimeBarPreview

This View can be placed whereever you like, just make sure, that you set layout_width to wrap_content and wrap it with a parent container, otherwise the Preview doesn't move within the parent. The best way is to set the paddingLeft and paddingright properties to add some space to the outer ViewGroup:

<FrameLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
    
    <com.github.vkay94.timebar.YouTubeTimeBarPreview
        android:id="@+id/youtubePreview"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingLeft="16dp"
        android:paddingRight="16dp" />
        
</FrameLayout>

Code implementation

In the following you'll see the basic implementation in Kotlin by using the View Binding syntax. For a fully working example look for the MainActivity of the example which updates the Views periodically with a Handler.

fun initViews() {
    // Add the listener to react on the events
    binding.youtubeTimeBar.addSegmentListener(object : LibTimeBar.SegmentListener 
        override fun onSegmentChanged(timeBar: LibTimeBar, newSegment: YouTubeSegment?) {
            if (newSegment is YTSegment) {
                Toast.makeText(this@MainActivity, "Hello new segment", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
            }
        }

        override fun onChapterChanged(timeBar: LibTimeBar, newChapter: YouTubeChapter, drag: Boolean) {
            if (newChapter is YTChapter) {
                // Do something, for example vibrate shortly
            }
        }
    }

    // Assigns the values 
    binding.youtubeTimeBar.timeBarPreview(binding.youtubeTimeBarPreview)
    binding.youtubeTimeBar.chapters = chaptersList
    binding.youtubeTimeBar.segments = segmentsList

    // Add thumbnail loading handling
    binding.youtubePreview.previewListener(object : YouTubeTimeBarPreview.Listener {
        override fun loadThumbnail(imageView: ImageView, position: Long) {
            // Load your image here into the ImageView, for example, by using Glide.
            // Please make sure, that you're performing expensive operations like cropping bitmaps on another 
            // background thread (for example by using RxJava) since this code block is called on the UI thread 
            // very often.
        }
    })

    // Set an interval to the frame loading. Whenever the scrubbed position is outside the interval 
    // (= previous loaded position) loadThumbnail is fired.
    binding.youtubePreview.durationPerFrame(20 * 1000)
}

API documentation

The following sections provide detailed documentation for the components of the library. All public methods are described in the KDoc. You can also check the MainActivity of the example package here for a sample implementation seen in the demo app.

YouTubeTimeBar

XML attributes

Methods

// Shows / hides the scrubber circle.
fun showScrubber() / fun hideScrubber()

// Sets the Preview-View to the TimeBar. If null is passed the Preview-View is removed from this TimeBar.
fun timeBarPreview(preview: YouTubeTimeBarPreview?)

// Returns the current playback position / total duration / buffered position in millisenconds.
fun getPosition() / fun getDuration() / fun getBufferedPosition()

LibTimeBar.SegmentListener

This interface listens for chapter and segment changes. You can add it with addSegmentListener(listener).

// Called when the current position has entered the segment interval, either by progress update or releasing the drag on it.
fun onSegmentChanged(timeBar: LibTimeBar, newSegment: YouTubeSegment?)

// Called when the chapter changes during dragging.
fun onChapterChanged(timeBar: LibTimeBar, newChapter: YouTubeChapter, drag: Boolean)

YouTubeChapter and YouTubeSegment

YouTubeChapter is an interface which requires a start time and a title. For example, let a data class implement it. YouTubeSegment requires a start and end time + some color to highlight the segment:

data class CustomChapter(
    val id: Int, 
    override val startTimeMs: Long, 
    override var title: String?
): YouTubeChapter

Within the above listener you can then check via an instance check and execute code accordingly.

YouTubeTimeBarPreview

XML attributes

Methods

// Makes the View Notch-observable. If set, the View goes into the Notch-Area (Compat version).
fun adjustWithDisplayCutout(cutout: DisplayCutoutCompat?)

// Makes the View Notch-observable. If set, the View goes into the Notch-Area (Android P+ version).
fun adjustWithDisplayCutout(cutout: DisplayCutout?)

// Sets the pixels manually (not recommended, but it's possible is required).
fun adjustWithDisplayCutout(leftPixels: Int, rightPixels: Int)

// Sets the interval between single frames (load calls during scrubbing) in milliseconds.
fun durationPerFrame(duration: Long)

// Whether to show the title of chapters.
fun useTitle(use: Boolean)

// Whether to show/hide all texts and show the preview image only
fun usePreviewOnly(previewOnly: Boolean)

// Shows / hides the Preview-View with an alpha animation. The default duration is 300 milliseconds.
fun show(duration: Long) / fun hide(duration: Long)

YouTubeTimeBarPreview.Listener

This interface lets you load the currect frame depending on the position to the ImageView. Optionally you can also listen for intersection (I recommend the MainActivity implementation for a better understanding).

// Called during scrubbing and passes the current scrubbing position. The ImageView is the one within the frame.
fun loadThumbnail(imageView: ImageView, position: Long)

// Called when the bounds of the whole view are changed. Lets you react for intersections.
fun onPreviewPositionUpdate(viewRect: Rect)

License

Copyright 2021 Viktor Krez

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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