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JW player on mobile devices

Hi,

I'm playing an FLV on Android browser (WebView) using the JW player.

There are several characteristics that are different than desktop browsers:
- Control bar need to be much bigger.
- Controlling volume is done by the phones hard buttons
- Player plays in full screen (Usually)

I'd like to configure JW player to be more Mobile "friendly":
1. Make the bar bigger
2. Drop the volume button
3. Start the player in maximum volume
4. Drop the maximize button
5. Start the player maximized
6. Prevent unmaximize ("allowfullscreen: false" doesn't work)

How can I do this? (Are there things I can't do?)

Thanks,
Alik.

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JW Player

User  
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Figured out 2 and 4 - Using skins.
I changed the skin of the controlbar component by removing the buttons and left with:
<layout>
<group position="left">
<text name="elapsed" />
</group>
<group position="center">
<slider name="time" />
</group>
<group position="right">
<text name="duration" />
</group>
</layout>

I used the Modieus Skin.

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JW Player

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Figured 1 (Using skins as well)
Just change/add the following settings:

<setting name="margin" value="15" />
<setting name="fontsize" value="30" />

Margin to raise the control bar up a bit.
Fontsize to make the bar bigger.

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JW Player

User  
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Figured out point 3. Add the parameter
volume: 100 (Thanks to the JW guide)

Still to figure out:
5. Start the player maximized
6. Prevent unmaximize ("allowfullscreen: false" doesn't work)

Regarding 5, I managed to show the whole screen using height: "100%",width: "100%" - but it's not the real maximize functionality.

I'm quite lost. Anyone?

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Pablo

JW Player Support Agent  
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@Alik -

Flash doesn’t allow a switch to (true) fullscreen mode automatically. In fact, a switch to fullscreen mode must be triggered by a mouse click. Conversely, once in fullscreen mode, there’s no way to programmatically prevent the user from exiting fullscreen mode.

Your best bet is to use 100% width and height to fake fullscreen mode.

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JW Player

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Thanks.

What bout 'allowfullscreen: false' not working?
Have you seen this?

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Pablo

JW Player Support Agent  
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@Alik -

I haven’t seen that, no, but keep in mind, “allowfullscreen” is a Flash parameter, not a JW Player configuration option. When switching to fullscreen, the JW Player simply attempts to make the switch. If fullscreen is disabled on a platform, the fullscreen switch simply won’t work, but the player itself doesn’t attempt to enforce this parameter.

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JW Player

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What code are you using to load the file into the Webview?

I'm using this:

bc.. webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.videoview);
webview.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
webview.loadUrl("http://" + domain + "/jwplayer/player.swf?file=test.mp4");


Anybody know why this isn't working?

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JW Player

User  
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Hi ,I try to embed jwplayer in webview on android, but only see loading the player... .But on Android Browser or Dolphin Browser it working

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Pablo

JW Player Support Agent  
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@Zeroroc -

The JW Player doesn’t support WebView directly; it may work (or not) but we don’t do any Android testing other than the native Android browser.

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