Android VideoView black screen

Question

I have been looking for a way to get rid of the nasty black initial screen on a VideoView before the start() method is run.

I have tried with background image on the

Answer 1

This worked for me:

videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE); // Your color.
videoView.start();
videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
        videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
    }
});

At least two years later, but I hope that was helpful.