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Asked: 2026-05-30T19:54:12+00:00

I am trying to make an app that allows me to stream a video

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I am trying to make an app that allows me to stream a video from a website and play that video in my app.

However, I would like to play this video from my app and not through youtube or anything else.

So you click a button and a video starts streaming and stays in my app and plays. Also, another quick question here, can I play videos from anywhere?

I think I read that it had to be .mp4 or something but im not sure. How can I tell if it’s .mp4 by just looking at it?

If I really want to play a video that isnt .mp4 (or whatever it’s supposed to be) is there any way at all that I could possibly play it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The quickest way is to have a view dedicated to a Flash player which streams the video for you. You can generate the HTML at runtime and pass it into a WebView.

    This is probably not what you are looking for because you mention that you want it to stream directly with Android. I thought I would put the suggestion out there though.

    Edit:

    You would use a WebView. Using the following function:

    loadDataWithBaseURL(baseUrl, data, mimeType, encoding, historyUrl);

    You pass in a base URL, which in this case can just be file:///android_asset/ and the data is your complete HTML code. etc.

    The data would be set like so:

    String data = "<html><head></head><body>flash player goes here</body></html>";

    You would set the Flash player to occupy the whole screen, so that the size of the player is then determined by the size of your WebView.

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