Question

Hey all, I’m trying to create an app for android that can stream flv files from the web. The VideoView does not support this. Other players like RockPlayerLite do support flv and play the file fine if it is placed on the sdcard, but i can’t find a api on hw to call this as a new intent.

Does anyone know of a flv player that has an API so i can call it from my app with an url that it should load?

Answer 1

It was actually very easy:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(PATH_TO_FILE), "video/flv");
startActivity(intent);