android-videoview

I'm using a VideoView in my Android app to display the intro animation. If the Google Music App is playing music in the background, calling videoview.start() stops music playing in Google Music App in the background. Is there a way to make sure any music in the background will keep playing at the same time with my intro video? (it has no audio) Thank you! Turns out Google Music App and a few other apps will stop their music when any video starts playing. In order to make sure I'm not interrupting the listening experience for my users I now skip the intro video if I determine that there is

I have tried to play a youtube video by its URL by my android program. I have used setVideoURI(uri); function also to set URI, as suggested by other POSTs in stackoverflow regarding this. But I am getting Couldn't open file on client side, trying server side error. Can you please figure out what is the problem with my code. But I am able to play any local video by commented code. Here is my android code- public class VideoActivity extends Activity { //MediaPlayer song= new MediaPlayer(); @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

In Android's VideoView, is there any way to achieve the same effect as ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_CROP? That is, I want my VideoView to play the video such that it fills the entire screen without distortion. If the video aspect ratio does not exactly fit the screen's, then it should be cropped rather than distorted. The following solution will fill the screen, but does not maintain the video's aspect ratio: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6927300/1068656 And this solution maintains the video's aspect ratio, but will not fill the entire screen (video is scaled until the longer side hits the screen

Please help, How to play videos in android device from raw folder for offline mode? Successful example1: I can play the video from SDcard used the below code. Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); String type = "video/mp4"; Uri uri = Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/test.mp4"); intent.setDataAndType(uri, type); startActivity(intent); Failed example2: Question: May I put the test.mp4 to res/raw folder? Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); String type = "video/mp4"; Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.taipei); intent.setDataAndType(uri, type);

I have a RelativeLayout <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_gravity="center" android:foregroundGravity="center" android:gravity="center" android:orientation="horizontal" > <VideoView android:id="@+id/videoViewPanel" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_gravity="center" android:layout_centerInParent="true"/> </RelativeLayout> And what I need is to show video fullscreen cropped. If I could compare to ImageView, I need to

I am trying to build an android app that will loop a video! The problem is that it never loops! It plays the video only once! During debugging i realized that the "myVideoView.setOnCompletionListener" is being executed but the video doesn't play! I also try "mp.reset()" inside the CompletionListener. Maybe i am missing something in a different file, such as the Manifest? Any thoughts? Here is my code: final VideoView myVideoView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.myvideoview); myVideoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(SrcPath)); myVideoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {