Android: how to play video from assets?

Question

I am making an application in which I have to show video from assets folder in a Fragment. Can anyone help me do this? Do I need to use VideoView in XML?

Answer 1

I have already suffered from same problem, u should prefer project's res/raw folder instead of assets. Create raw folder under res folder. Save video file in a supported format (3gp, wmv, mp4 ) and named with lowercase, numerics, underscores and dots in its filename likewise:filename.3gp into the raw folder.

VideoView videoview = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView);

String uriPath = "android.resource://your application package name/raw/your 
wmv/mp4/3gp file in res/raw path without extension";

videoview.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(uriPath));

videoview.start();