Playing video in Android with VideoView complete tutorial.

Android VideoView widget tutorial and reference with Example

Android System provides VideoView widget in which we can play video file easily by providing video path or video URI.

Steps:

1. Add video view to activity layout (example: activity_main.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <VideoView
        android:id="@+id/videoView"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

2. Now initialize VideoView in Activity (example: MainActivity.java)

package com.masoomyf.videoviewexample;

import android.net.Uri;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.VideoView;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    //Video view object to hold video view.
    private VideoView mVideoView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        //Setup the UI
        setupUI();
        //Load Video
        loadVideo();

    }

    private void loadVideo() {
        //Video is in /res/raw/sample.mp4 so we need uri.
        Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.sample);
        //Set video URI in video view
        mVideoView.setVideoURI(uri);
        //start the video.
        mVideoView.start();
    }

    private void setupUI() {
        //Assigning video view
        mVideoView = findViewById(R.id.videoView);
    }


}

Optional Steps (To Add MediaController to VideoView)

1. Create field MediaController mediaController;

2. Initialize it in setupUI():

mediaController = new MediaController(this);

mVideoView.setMediaController(mediaController);

After performing following steps, MainActivity look like this:

package com.masoomyf.videoviewexample;

import android.net.Uri;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.MediaController;
import android.widget.VideoView;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    //Video view object to hold video view.
    private VideoView mVideoView;

    //MediaController object to hold mediaController.
    private MediaController mediaController;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        //Setup the UI
        setupUI();
        //Load Video
        loadVideo();

    }

    private void loadVideo() {
        //Video is in /res/raw/sample.mp4 so we need uri.
        Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.sample);
        //Set video URI in video view
        mVideoView.setVideoURI(uri);
        //start the video.
        mVideoView.start();
    }

    private void setupUI() {
        //Assigning video view
        mVideoView = findViewById(R.id.videoView);
        mediaController = new MediaController(this);
        mVideoView.setMediaController(mediaController);

    }


}