Feedback for Media3 Demo App - Improved Internet Handling

[pooya-mohammadhossein]

Feedback for Media3 Demo App - Improved Internet Handling

[tonihei]

The current default behavior retries a few times, which generally works to cover any temporary network issues where the connection is restored quickly. The retry behavior (number of retries, delays etc) can also be configured via LoadErrorHandlingPolicy. There is an old medium post about this class with some examples and the case labeled "Do not surface load errors due to lack of network connectivity" could be interesting if you want to continuously retry until the connection is back. Alternatively, you could just let the player fail and re-prepare the playback once the connection is back as you already outlined above.

The reason we don't add this logic internally is that most apps wouldn't expect playback to continue if the network is lost for a long period of time. This may be really unexpected to the user if the network loss happened multiple minutes ago for example.