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

Just use VideoView#setBackgroundDrawable(), I think.

1. initial settings.

   VideoView.setBackgroundDrawable(yourdrawableid);
   

2. start video

   VideoView.start();
   VideoView.setBackgroundDrawable(0);