Hello : How to set focus and handle on Skip Button in IMA extensions of exoplayer.

[kinhdang]

Hello All !

Updated version 2.5.2 for IMA play ads working very good, but we have a little troubles build app in android box (setopbox), when ads have Skip Button, How to set focus on Skip Button ? and handle Button Skip to ignore ads.
anyone knows, please give idea to resolve this problems.

Thanks,

[andrewlewis]

Unfortunately, this is a known issue with the Android IMA SDK. Please see this thread for details.

The recommendation for now seems to be to customize your serving settings to exclude skippable ads. I've also heard about a workaround where you hide the ad overlay UI (passed to the ImaAdsMediaSource) on Android TV devices, though this is not officially supported and I haven't tried it.

[Internal bug for reference: 62371030]

[kinhdang]

Thanks your reply.

[ojw28]

We're going to try and add a workaround for this issue.

[ojw28]

There is a workaround that enables the skip button in dev-v2. We'll push a bug-fix only release including this change this week.

[nguyenphi24]

Hi @ojw28 , i have already updated to new version (2.5.3), IMA works perfectly with Simpleexoplayerview. But i use exo with Surfaceview, i cannot press Skip ads button, how to use IMA on Android TV with Surfaceview ?

[ojw28]

If you're using your own layout instead of SimpleExoPlayerView then you'll have to figure out how to make it so that the button can receive focus. A good starting point for this would be to look at what we did to SimpleExoPlayerView in the change referenced above, and see if you can do something equivalent in your own code.