Play Youtube HTML5 embedded Video in Android WebView

Question

I am having a problem running a HTML5 Youtube embedded in a WebView. I want to play a Youtube video on my application. I

Answer 1

EDIT

So from the comment conversation we have deducted:

On this website: www.youtube.com/html5 it says you have to sign in then opt in for HTML5 video playback

That is why your video will not load, it is redirecting to a flash version and your webview does not have flash.

ORIGINAL

Are you overriding url loading so your webview is being used?

 wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){
                    @Override
                    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                            return false;
                    }
            });

Are you saying the video won't play but the website loads?

You could try lying to YouTube and telling them your a different browser (perhaps pretend to be the android browser) Firefox is:

 wv.getSettings().setUserAgentString("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.766.0 Safari/534.36");

Answer 2

Step 1 : Simply add this to Manifest file

android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

step 2 : check if you are setting layer for your webview.

(i.e.) //myWebView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);

setting hardware acceleration to true and commenting these lines worked for me .

To know more about Hardware Acceleration and Layers look here at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html