I am working on a video streaming application like YouTube. I am using VideoView's built in streaming capability.
I am using Fragments, so on phones there is a Activity wrapper around VideoFragment. The UX should be similar to YouTube's, so in portrait there is video playing at the top and some aditional views below it, etc., and in landscape, all there is is a fullscreen video.
What I have trouble with is orientation changes, what I obviously want is have video continue playing when orientation is changed. As I said, the video is streamed, so just persisting the current video time is not going to cut it. The only way I managed to do that is by forcing to not restart activity with android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize" set on the wrapper activity in Manifest.
So this works nicely, but fails when I want to have different layouts for layout and layout-land as YouTube does, because the activity is not restarted, so theres no oportunity for fragment to load new layout as far as I know.
Thanks!