Can we use playhead tracker object instead of a html video element in case of DAI HTML5 SDK

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• Please confirm which TV android TV or other
• Could you please explain more about the issue on how you are rending the ads in the webview with the help of URL or custom code
• In which language you are creating the Hybrid app 
• Sample project not firing adEvents AD_BREAK_STARTED, AD_BREAK_ENDED 

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• Please confirm which TV android TV or other - it is a streaming device similar to roku / firestick. It supports app development with react native

•   - In the webview we have index.html with a video element like
    <video id="video"></video>
    - In js code
     videoElement = document.getElementById('video');
    - Then we are initialising stream manager
    streamManager = new google.ima.dai.api.StreamManager(videoElement, adUiElement);
    streamManager.addEventListener(
        [
          google.ima.dai.api.StreamEvent.Type.LOADED,
          google.ima.dai.api.StreamEvent.Type.ERROR,
          google.ima.dai.api.StreamEvent.Type.AD_BREAK_STARTED,
          google.ima.dai.api.StreamEvent.Type.AD_BREAK_ENDED
        ],
        onStreamEvent, false);
     -  Whenever LOADED event is triggered we get the url and we are playing that url in the native layer
     - native layer sends the progress of the video & timed metadata back to the webview
     - Whenever we get video progress from native layer we are setting the currentTime of the videoElement
      videoElement.currentTime = currentTimeFromNativeLayer;
     - whenever we receive timed metadata from native layer we are calling processMetadata 
      streamManager.processMetadata('ID3', data, pts);
     - Following the above we are not getting other events like AD_BREAK_STARTED, AD_BREAK_ENDED
     - If we have a video element in html with some source like below, everything works fine and we receive all the events
       <video src="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4" id="video-internal"></video>
     - The issue is we don't want to have any source in this video element as the url received after LOADED event will be played in the native layer.
  
• In which language you are creating the Hybrid app - React Native

Hi Pratik,

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