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

For people still looking for answer for this, calling VideoView.start() and VideoView.pause() in succession inside onPrepared worked for me. I know this may not be the ideal way of achieving this however it might be the one with minimal workaround required in the code. Hope this works for you too.

@Override
public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
    mVideoView.start();
    mVideoView.pause();
}