Question

I’m trying to open videos when the user clicks on an item from a list. I have the code for the listview working, and the code to open videos. I just can’t figure out how to combine the two.

Here’s my code to open videos.

    String video_path = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrEUBl2pacU";
    Uri uri = Uri.parse(video_path);

    uri = Uri.parse("vnd.youtube: " + uri.getQueryParameter("v"));

    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
    startActivity(intent);

Is it possible to put this code into onItemClick?

Edit: Here’s the whole class. I have a feeling that my code is incorrect, as it’s all in onCreate. But, I followed a tutorial, and that’s where is was.

public class Videos extends Activity{

private ListView lv;
String videoNames[] = {"Doctor Who Trailer", "T+S - Northshore", "Foo Fighters - Everlong"};

public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
    super.onCreate(icicle);
    setContentView(R.layout.videos);
    lv = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.videosListView);

    lv.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, videoNames));
    lv.setTextFilterEnabled(true);

    lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?>Videos, View v, int position, long id) {


    String video_path = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrEUBl2pacU";
    Uri uri = Uri.parse(video_path);

    uri = Uri.parse("vnd.youtube: " + uri.getQueryParameter("v"));

    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
    startActivity(intent);
};
  });
 }
}

Answer 1

This is what your onclicklistener should look like. Try this code:

    final ArrayAdapter<String> aa = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,R.layout.list_view,listItems);
    setListAdapter(aa);

    //This creates a listener for the Files listed
    getListView().setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view,
                int position, long id) {
            String url = aa.getItem(position);
            Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
            startActivity(i);   
            return false;
        }
    }); 

UPDATE: I would suggest using a Hashmap for a key value pair. Something like (I didn’t compile this):

HashMap<String, String> hm = new HashMap<String, String>();
hm.put("videoText1", "youtube_link1");
hm.put("videoText2", "youtube_link2");
hm.put("videoText3", "youtube_link3");

You then could get all of listview set by using hm.keySet().

ArrayList<String> listItems = new ArrayList<String>(hm.keySet());
final ArrayAdapter<String> aa = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,R.layout.list_view,listItems);
    setListAdapter(aa);

Lastly use the Hashmap to lookup the youtube link:

String url = hm.get(aa.getItem(position));

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