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Asked: 2026-05-29T21:33:06+00:00

I have a requirement to play YouTube video content from within an Android application

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I have a requirement to play YouTube video content from within an Android application on Google TV. Specifically, we’d like to play it from within a Webview inside a Google TV app. This works on Honeycomb devices (3.1), but does not work on GTV.

Here is the video we are testing with, and how we are linking it via a URL that is loaded into a Webview:

<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="400" height="285" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u1zgFlCw8Aw" frameborder="0">

The page we are loading in the Webview also WORKS fine when using the regular Browser app (the video plays there, embedded via an iframe, just fine!).

Here are the Webview settings that we are using: 

  web.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
  web.getSettings().setPluginState(PluginState.ON);

When loading the same URL that works in the Browser app from our own app, via a Webview, it fails. The screen shows the initial YouTube video in the box with the controls, but when play is pressed the box turns to plain black and no video plays. SOMETIMES audio plays, but never video.

Logcat shows:

E/libEGL(14956): call to OpenGL ES API with no current context (logged once per thread)
D/ShaderProgram(14956): couldn’t load the vertex shader!

I did find an open bug report with another user having the same problem (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22018) , but there is no follow up there, so I thought I would see if SO gets more attention. Does anyone have any more insight about this issue?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve been working on a solution to the same problem. It is working on both tablets and Google TV (including the revue).

    The major difference from your code is that I create the HTML code in the android app in code and pass this to webView.loadDataWithBaseURL

            webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("http://www.youtube.com", html, "text/html", "utf-8", null);

    For more details, please see the source I am working on:

    http://code.google.com/p/android-reddittv/source/browse/trunk/RedditTV%20HD%20Android/src/com/elsewhat/reddittv/hd/YoutubePlayerActivty.java

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