How to get the current minute for playing YouTube video in Android

Question

I have the YouTube player embedded in my Android application. I want to get the current minute of the video playing once I press the device's back button. I tried doing this:

  @Override
public void onInitializationSuccess(YouTubePlayer.Provider provider, YouTubePlayer youTubePlayer, boolean b) {

    Log.d(TAG , "onInitializationSuccess(Provider, YouTubePlayer, boolean ) - Ini ");

    if(!b) {
        youTubePlayer.cueVideo(getIntent().getStringExtra("VIDEO_ID"));
        int minute  = youTubePlayer.getCurrentTimeMillis();

    }

    Log.d(TAG , "onInitializationSuccess(Provider, YouTubePlayer, boolean ) - Fi ");

}

but without success; the minute is always 0. I don't know why.

Any help?

Did you play the player first? – Onel Sarmiento Sep 21 '16 at 01:41 — Onel Sarmiento, Sep 21 '16 at 01:41

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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if the video is playing, you can get the current millis using this

long millis = youTubePlayer.getCurrentTimeMillis();

and just convert it to minutes & seconds. The best i've found so far for conversion is using this code

long minutes = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millis);
long seconds = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millis);

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17625247/5870896

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Sep 21 '16 at 02:22

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in which method of the activity should i put this: long millis = youTubePlayer.getCurrentTimeMillis(); – rainman Sep 21 '16 at 02:52
anywhere you want as long as there is a playing video – Rashid Sep 21 '16 at 03:28
@SecretCoder i cant use this method inside onDestroy . any workout to get current time at the time of exit the screen? – Tejas Pandya Feb 16 '19 at 10:58

How to get the current minute for playing YouTube video in Android

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