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

Modifying @emmgfx's answer worked for me:

videoView.setBackgroundColor(Color.WHITE)
videoView.start()
Timer().schedule(100){
  videoView?.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT)
}

Trick is to delay the video view untill video loads. PS : It's kotlin.