Android WebView with an embedded youtube video, full screen button freezes video

Question

I have an android webview that loads a wordpress blog. Some blog posts contain youtube videos which I would like the user to be able to make full screen if they wish. The pr

Answer 1

You can start an external YouTube app when you will cath video info URLif it is not important to show YouTube video directly in application.

To catch video info URL You need to owerride onLoadResource method:

new WebViewClient() {

    @Override
    public void onLoadResource(WebView view, String url) {

        if (url.startsWith("http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?")) {
            try {
                String path = url.replace("http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?", "");

                String[] parqamValuePairs = path.split("&");

                String videoId = null;

                for (String pair : parqamValuePairs) {
                    if (pair.startsWith("video_id")) {
                        videoId = pair.split("=")[1];
                        break;
                    }
                }

                if(videoId != null){
                    startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com"))
                            .setData(Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + videoId)));
                    needRefresh = true;

                    return;
                }
            } catch (Exception ex) {
            }
        } else {
            super.onLoadResource(view, url);
        }
    }
}