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 one works for me :

In XML : VideoView hide behind a Relative layout with white Background

and in Activity : onCreate

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.acceuil);
    myVideo = (VideoView)  findViewById(R.id.myVideo);
    mask = (RelativeLayout)  findViewById(R.id.mask);
    String path = "android.resource://" 
      + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.anim_normal;
    myVideo.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path));
    myVideo.start();
}

onStart :

 public void onStart() { 
    final long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
    super.onStart();
    new CountDownTimer(5000, 100) { 
    @Override
        public void onTick(long l) {

            long time2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
            if((time2 - time) > 500) {
                mask.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
        }

}.start();

Hope this helps.