How to dispose CrossMediaManager properly?

[kaviraj93]

I'm playing an HLS content on CrossMediaManager. When users press back, I'm trying to dispose the player, but the player is still playing, I can see it's running on notification drawer and I can listen to video. Here is the code I've tried. VideoPlayer is the Reference name of the VideoView

protected override void OnDisappearing()
{
    base.OnDisappearing();
    CrossMediaManager.Current.Dispose();
    VideoPlayer.Dispose();
}

[euquiq]

Hi!

I have the same problem ... Currently, I am trying:

        async protected override void OnDisappearing()
        {
            await CrossMediaManager.Current.Stop();
            video.Dispose();
            CrossMediaManager.Current.Dispose();         
        }

With no luck. I wonder if there is any flag I could put on "False" that would make the whole notification drawer dissapear, also. I do not want the user to "control" the media being played from the notification drawer.

Any hint / help is appreciated!

Thanks!

[Eryens]

Hello, same boat here

I tried so many things to dispose the video player properly. The behaviour I am trying to achieve is a button that stops the video and removes all its associated notifications.

CrossMediaManager.Current.Dispose(); Doesn't seem to interact with the notification drawer. I tried

CrossMediaManager.Current.Notification = null;

var manager = CrossMediaManager.Current.Notification as MediaManager.Platforms.Android.Notifications.NotificationManager;
var playerNotificationManager = manager.PlayerNotificationManager;
playerNotificationManager.SetNotificationListener(null);
playerNotificationManager.SetPlayer(null);
playerNotificationManager.SetMediaSessionToken(null);
playerNotificationManager = null;

Also tried setting the Media session to inactive, cancelling all intents from the Application.Context but nothing seems to work.

I think that CrossMediaManager.Current.Dispose(); is supposed to close the notification from what I read in the source code but nothing really happens.

Seems like a bug to me? Or maybe an oversight?

Would greatly appreciate some help. Thank you

[Eryens]

I've also tried to use a custom notification manager by replacing :

CrossMediaManager.Current.Notification = new MyCustomManager(); but it didn't seem to have the functionalities I am looking for to shut the notification.

[sunsiz]

I've also tried stop the play, disable notification and dispose the instance. None of them worked, at the end i found a old YouTube video says the version 0.9.7 has problems so using the version 0.9.0, that helped me, version 0.9.0 works fine you can close notification just with stop command.

[Eryens]

Hello!

I have just tried downgrading the version and it seems that every version below 1.0.7 does not work properly within my project. Downgrading sounds like a sweet workaround but I would be scared that it creates bugs that have already been fixed.

[Abuelhija]

this worked for me:

public async void StopPlayer() { try { //await Endpoints.FileService.ClearCacheAsync(); if played from stream then clear cache IsBusy = false; if (IsPlaying) { CrossMediaManager.Current.Notification.ShowPlayPauseControls = true; await CrossMediaManager.Current.Pause(); await Task.Delay(50); await CrossMediaManager.Current.Stop(); CrossMediaManager.Current.Notification.UpdateNotification(); IsPlaying = false; } } catch (Exception ex) { Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message); }

    }