Add Opt In for Media Element Service

[ne0rrmatrix]

After today meeting on youtube I am starting this discussion to decide how to proceed with adding support for either Opt in or Opt out of the Media Element service on android.

The question I have about what the community wants is:

• Do we want to add it as options class like with we have done in the past? (This is most likely not the best idea as mentioned by @TheCodeTraveler )
• Do we want to have the option to choose a per instance runtime option that will have a bindable property like MediaElement.ShouldUseAndroidService ?

Does anyone in the community have any additional ideas? If we add support for runtime option with the ShouldUseAndroidService we will be able to dynamically turn it on and off when selecting option allowing a choice at runtime whenever the developer chooses to turn it off and on. Turning it off will turn off both the service and the notifications. If it is opt in we can have the all of the permissions for android in manifest as optional. You would only need to add service module and permissions if you have plans to use the service. So this will give developers multiple choices. They will be able to add permissions and service and then dynamically opt in at runtime or just not add permissions and service module and it will just never load the service?

Does anyone see and downsides to this approach? Do you have any other ideas/approaches to this?

Example API:

/// <summary>
/// Backing store for the <see cref="ShouldUseAndroidService"/> property.
/// </summary>
public static readonly BindableProperty ShouldUseAndroidService =
	BindableProperty.Create(nameof(ShouldUseAndroidService), typeof(bool), typeof(MediaElement), false);

[EMMBernhard]

In our app we would have a need for the bindable property. There are currently two scenarios using the MediaElement:

• MediaElement for video playback, in this use case we want the notification.
• MediaElement as a design element (animated background), in this use case we don't want the notification.