Question

I want to load youtube video to Android webview using iframe

here is my layout Xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@android:color/white"
android:id="@+id/mainLayout">

<WebView
    android:background="@android:color/white"
    android:id="@+id/webView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</RelativeLayout>

My code is:

public class WebTube extends Activity {

private WebView wv;

String html = "<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 95%; padding:0px; margin:0px\" id=\"ytplayer\" type=\"text/html\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/WBYnk3zR0os"
            + "?fs=0\" frameborder=\"0\">\n"
            + "</iframe>";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    wv = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView); 
    wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        wv.loadDataWithBaseURL("", html , "text/html",  "UTF-8", "");

     }
} 

Also I provide <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

& android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

when I run this I didn’t get any result its just showing a black screen

I tried this .but this provide me video on .3gp Quality . but I need the videos from youtube on original quality. That’s why I am using iframe.

I try code using <object></object> and <video></video> instead of iframe. but it didn’t solve my issue.

when I run this code on emulator it shows

Before Pressing Play Button

After Pressing Play button on video

I think we cannot stream videos on emulator since it is a virtual device

But when I run this on phone it’s not even showing this result.

I try iframe with a document attach to it works fine on phone as well as emulator

String customHtml = "<iframe src='http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.iasted.org/conferences/formatting/presentations-tips.ppt&embedded=true' width='100%' height='100%' style='border: none;'></iframe>";

So please help me to load videos to this frame.

(I run it on phone). What’s the problem?
also will iframe work on Android 2.1?

did any one tried Youtube Api ?

Answer 1

As stated in the android Webview documentation,

HTML5 Video support

In order to support inline HTML5 video in your application, you need to have hardware acceleration turned on, and set a WebChromeClient.

For full screen support, implementations of onShowCustomView(View, WebChromeClient.CustomViewCallback) and onHideCustomView() are required, getVideoLoadingProgressView() is optional.