Can a videoview play a video stored on internal storage?

Question

I\'m trying to provide my users with the ability to use either external or internal storage. I\'m displaying both images and videos (of a scientific nature). When storing th

Answer 1

I came across this thread with the same problem, I'm downloading my videos from the web to the internal storage, turns out when saving you can specify the RW mode, i.e change from PRIVATE to WORLD_READABLE

URL url = new URL(_url);
InputStream input = null;
FileOutputStream output = null;

try {
String outputName = "video.mp4";

input = url.openConnection().getInputStream();
output = c.openFileOutput(outputName, Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE);

int read;
byte[] data = new byte[5120]; //5MB byte array
while ((read = input.read(data)) != -1)
output.write(data, 0, read);

return true;

} finally {
if (output != null)
   output.close();
if (input != null)
   input.close();
    }
}