Android-youtube-player: Detecting Advertisements

[MatanKoby]

What way is there to detect an advertisement?
I noticed "onApiChange()" is called for advertisements, but I haven't managed to reproduce it enough times in order to count on it, also, it is sometimes called when there are no advertisements at all.

How can one detect that an ad is currently/started playing, instead of a video?
(For reference, the Android Youtube SDK has an "onAdStarted()" call)

[PierfrancescoSoffritti]

Hi, unfortunately at the moment the YouTube IFrame API doesn't expose any API for ads events. Therefore there is no way (without using some hacks) to detect when an ad starts playing.

[MatanKoby]

Well, that's unfortunate. Thanks for the quick response and I hope this issue is solved soon.

[nicktz9]

Hello PierfrancescoSoffritti,
The youtube advertisement seems to be disabled. Is there any way to play advertisements?
Thanks!

[PierfrancescoSoffritti]

Hi, that's controlled by the IFrame API and it's not configurable.