VideoView in a fragment is null during orientationchange

Question

I have a video view in my fragment. When the video is playing and I change the orientation it throws null pointer exception in frgament onPause() where I'm pausing the videview. This problem did not occur previously when the video view was attached to an activity. Recently I had to change the activity to fragment and getting the exception from then.

video.xml

<FrameLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:id="@+id/fullScreenContainer">
    <SurfaceView
        android:layout_width="0px"
        android:layout_height="0px"
        android:id="@+id/dummySurfaceView"/>
    </FrameLayout>

This is my fragment onPause()

@Override
public void onPause() {
    super.onPause();
    if (videoView != null) {
        videoView.pausePlayer();
    }
}

videoView is an object of the class Video that extend RelativeLayout which has VideoView vidPlayer in it

Video.java

public void pausePlayer() {
    isPaused = true;
    vidPlayer.pause();
    btnPlay.setImageResource(R.drawable.video_play);
    controlsManager.cancelHideTimer();
}

So, This is the structure ->

 ___________________________________
|      ** MyFragment.java **        | 
|  _______________________________  |
| |       ** Video.java **        | |
| |  ___________________________  | |
| | |                           | | |
| | |  **VideoView vidPlayer**  | | |
| | |___________________________| | |
| |                               | |
| |_______________________________| |
|                                   |  
|___________________________________|

Answer 1

Try this add on the manifest on your activity :

 android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"

and in your activity , you have to add the code below :

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
    // Pass any configuration change to the drawer toggls 

}