tracker is not updating and is returning 0.0 as duration initially

[AsifPatan]

Question / Problem

the tracker for youtube is returning 0.0 as video duration when song is being played

Summary

In my code i initialized youtube player widgit where i used onready() and onStateChanged()
in onready() i am adding tracker to the youtubeplayer

but in onstatechanged if i get duration of the video playing at first it return zero but if we change the state i.e. if we pause then it gets updated
also when i change the song i.e. play other then it stores the duration of previous video untill pause is clicked

same happens with current second duration (i.e. played duration)

What I've tried

i tried to remove the previous listener if any and add the listener every time after the song has been played then also it didn't work

Flow of code

platform : Android

on create --> Initialize youtube player (but will not play anything) --> on button click load the video into youtube player view

during initialization i have added the tracker

[PierfrancescoSoffritti]

Hey, could you provide the code? if this is a bug, i'd suggest finding a way to replicate it in the sample app.

[AsifPatan]

Hey, could you provide the code? if this is a bug, i'd suggest finding a way to replicate it in the sample app.

@PierfrancescoSoffritti Thanks for your reply, I have recreated that with a example here is the code

code

class default_activity : AppCompatActivity() {
    lateinit var youTubePlayerView: YouTubePlayerView
    lateinit var tracker: YouTubePlayerTracker
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_default)

        youTubePlayerView = findViewById<YouTubePlayerView>(R.id.youtube_player_view)
        youTubePlayerView.enableAutomaticInitialization = false
        youTubePlayerView.enableBackgroundPlayback(true)
        lifecycle.addObserver(youTubePlayerView)

        initializeYTPlayer()
    }

    private fun initializeYTPlayer() {
        val customPlayerUi =
            youTubePlayerView.inflateCustomPlayerUi(R.layout.custom_player_ui_default)

        val listener: YouTubePlayerListener = object : AbstractYouTubePlayerListener() {
            override fun onReady(youTubePlayer: YouTubePlayer) {

                val customPlayerUiController = CustomPlayerUiController2(customPlayerUi, youTubePlayer, youTubePlayerView)
                youTubePlayer.addListener(customPlayerUiController)

                tracker=YouTubePlayerTracker()
                youTubePlayer.addListener(tracker)

                youTubePlayer.loadOrCueVideo(lifecycle, "M_x7zq92lc8", 0f)
            }

            override fun onStateChange(youTubePlayer: YouTubePlayer, state: PlayerConstants.PlayerState) {
                var array=arrayOf("unknown","unstarted","ended","playing","paused","buffering","video cued")
                printCurrent(array[state.ordinal])
                super.onStateChange(youTubePlayer, state)
     
                if(state==PlayerConstants.PlayerState.PAUSED){
                    
                }
                if(state==PlayerConstants.PlayerState.PLAYING){
                  
                }
            }

            override fun onVideoDuration(youTubePlayer: YouTubePlayer, duration: Float) {
                super.onVideoDuration(youTubePlayer, duration)
                printCurrent("On video duration")

            }
        }

        val options: IFramePlayerOptions = IFramePlayerOptions.Builder().controls(0).build()
        youTubePlayerView.initialize(listener, options)
    }

    fun printCurrent(s: String) {
        Log.d("current","Now $s The current duration is ${tracker.currentSecond.toString()} and total duration is ${tracker.videoDuration.toString()}")
    }

}

output I got

10:18:53.337  D  Now unstarted The current duration is 0.0 and total duration is 0.0
10:18:53.339  D  Now buffering The current duration is 0.0 and total duration is 0.0
10:18:54.210  D  Now playing The current duration is 0.0 and total duration is 0.0
10:18:54.211  D  Now On video duration The current duration is 0.0 and total duration is 0.0
10:19:36.170  D  Now ended The current duration is 41.5487 and total duration is 41.441

here on videoDuration method is called after the video is being played but yet i got total duration as 0.0

Hope you respond soon @PierfrancescoSoffritti

[AsifPatan]

@PierfrancescoSoffritti have you got the issue?