Tracking Video Native Ads playback progress/status in Android

eneim · 2018-08-22T00:46:39.295Z

(It should not be limited to just Android, but I cannot tell for other platform’s requirement).

The question is how to track the status (playing or idling) or progress (playback percentage) of a Video Native Ads?

The scenario is: I have a list of Videos by user, and among them I show a Video Native Ads. If the Ads is playing, I want to pause all other Videos by user, and only start them again once the Ads stops.

Can this be possible? Or how can I implement it myself using 5.3.0+ SDK? Thanks in advance.

codinami · 2018-09-11T16:34:05.228Z

Hi @eneim,

We currently do not support a public API that allows publishers to track the status or progress of Video Native Ads
You can implement this at your own risk by accessing our SDK repository at Github. The progress of the video ad can be accessed by using the following class and variable within our SDK.

github.com

mopub/mopub-android-sdk/blob/41eb08c0fe3312aa79eb9301724c533a2e5d3db8/mopub-sdk/mopub-sdk-base/src/main/java/com/mopub/mobileads/resource/ProgressBarDrawable.java#L87


    // There exists two Android video player bugs in VideoView.getCurrentPosition():
    // 1) It temporarily returns 0 right after backgrounding and switching back to the app.
    // 2) Near the end of the video, it never reaches duration and actually returns decreasing values.
    //
    // Therefore, we incorporate two checks to get around the bugs and potential visual glitches:
    // 1) Check against the last known current position to ensure that it's monotonically increasing.
    // 2) If not monotonically increasing, we only force completion and draw the entire progress
    // bar when the current position is not 0, i.e. not right after backgrounding.


    if (currentProgress >= mLastProgress) {
        mCurrentProgress = currentProgress;
        mLastProgress = currentProgress;
    } else if (currentProgress != 0) {
        MoPubLog.d(String.format("Progress not monotonically increasing: last = %d, current = %d",
                mLastProgress,
                currentProgress));
        forceCompletion();
    }


    invalidateSelf();
}

Hope it helps!