VideoView to match parent height and keep aspect ratio

Question

I have a VideoView which is set up like this:

Answer 1

You should extends from the built-in video view.

Call setVideoSize before video view is shown, you can get video size from thumbnail extracted from video.

So that, when video view's onMeasure is called, both mVideoWidth & mVideoHeight are > 0.

If you want to account the height of controllers, you can do it yourself in the onMeasure method.

Hope will help.

public class MyVideoView extends VideoView {

        private int mVideoWidth;
        private int mVideoHeight;

        public MyVideoView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
            super(context, attrs);
        }

        public MyVideoView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
            super(context, attrs, defStyle);
        }

        public MyVideoView(Context context) {
            super(context);
        }

        public void setVideoSize(int width, int height) {
            mVideoWidth = width;
            mVideoHeight = height;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
            // Log.i("@@@", "onMeasure");
            int width = getDefaultSize(mVideoWidth, widthMeasureSpec);
            int height = getDefaultSize(mVideoHeight, heightMeasureSpec);
            if (mVideoWidth > 0 && mVideoHeight > 0) {
                if (mVideoWidth * height > width * mVideoHeight) {
                    // Log.i("@@@", "image too tall, correcting");
                    height = width * mVideoHeight / mVideoWidth;
                } else if (mVideoWidth * height < width * mVideoHeight) {
                    // Log.i("@@@", "image too wide, correcting");
                    width = height * mVideoWidth / mVideoHeight;
                } else {
                    // Log.i("@@@", "aspect ratio is correct: " +
                    // width+"/"+height+"="+
                    // mVideoWidth+"/"+mVideoHeight);
                }
            }
            // Log.i("@@@", "setting size: " + width + 'x' + height);
            setMeasuredDimension(width, height);
        }
}