How to play online videos in Android?

Question

I am developing a sample media player app in Android to play online videos, I have developed some code to play videos. It plays video from SD card very well, but I am facing

Answer 1

Update 2020 Kotlin, AndroidX and Android P +

ProgressDialog is deprecated so I used Alert Dialog to show a loading dialog while the file is buffering and then start playback:

private fun playVideo(videopath: String) {
    Log.e("Playing Video File: ", "" + videopath);
    try {
        //Show Loader
        val builder: AlertDialog.Builder = AlertDialog.Builder(this@ScreenCaptureImageActivity);
        builder.setCancelable(false); // if you want user to wait for some process to finish,
        builder.setView(R.layout.layout_loading_dialog);
        progressDialog = builder.create();

        //add Controller
        val mediaController = MediaController(this@ScreenCaptureImageActivity);
        videoView.setMediaController(mediaController)
        //Add URI

        //Uncomment to play from local path
        //videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(videopath))

        //Example Play from Internet
        videoView.setVideoPath("http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ElephantsDream.mp4")

        videoView.setOnPreparedListener {
            progressDialog!!.dismiss();
            //Start Playback
            videoView.start()
            Log.e(TAG, "Video Started");
        }
    } catch (e: Exception) {
        progressDialog!!.dismiss();
       Log.e(TAG, "Video Play Error :" + e.localizedMessage);
    }
}

Loader XML

For Network Access add network config in the manifest, from Android P it's required

Add network_security_config.xml in res/xml