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

None of the Above worked for me. In my case, onPrepared gets called BEFORE the black frame went away, so I would still see the black frame.

I needed a solution where the video appeared shortly after the first frame.

So what I did was set the VideoView alpha to 0 in xml:

android:alpha="0"

and then before I start the video I animate the alpha back to 1:

videoView.animate().alpha(1);
videoView.seekTo(0);
videoView.start();

alternatively, you can just post a delayed Runnable to set the alpha to 1, instead of animating it.