I'm using the YouTube Android Player API and want to overlay a view on top of a YouTubePlayerFragment in order to display contextual information and controls above the playing video.
Unfortunately it seems playback does not work correctly in either a YouTubePlayerFragment or YouTubePlayerView whenever a there is one or more views stacked above the player in the layout hierarchy. Playback occurs for less than half a second before immediately pausing.
The issue can be reproduced by using the following layout for the Simple PlayerFragment demo that ships with the SDK:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<fragment
android:name="com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubePlayerFragment"
android:id="@+id/youtube_fragment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.Small"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:text="@string/playerfragment_text"/>
</RelativeLayout>
I have tried various layout configurations using both FrameLayout and RelativeLayout but the issue is always the same. I realise this API has been released as "experimental", but if this is a known issue it is a pretty major blocker for a lot of implementations. Does anyone have a good solution or workaround?
