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Asked: 2026-06-07T12:01:02+00:00

Somewhere in my Android app I would like to play a youtube video, in

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Somewhere in my Android app I would like to play a youtube video,
in my activity, in a small view.
I’m trying to do this using VideoView, but no luck so far..

I wrote a simple activity, here is my code so far:

public class MainView extends Activity {

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.VideoView);
    MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
    mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);
    /*working good but IT'S NOT youtube*/ //Uri video = Uri.parse("http://commonsware.com/misc/test2.3gp"); 
    /*NOT WORKING*/ //Uri video = Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0&ob=av2e");
    /*NOT WORKING (RTSP)*/ //Uri video = U-ri.parse("http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=IL&hl=en&client=mv-google&feature=grec_mobile&v=6WHRxXY67UA");
    /*NOT WORKING (RTSP)*/Uri video = Uri.parse("http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=IL&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=wWub_aXPCVg");
    videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
    videoView.setVideoURI(video);
    videoView.start();
   }
}

is it possible?
is there any other SDK component that can do that?
any ideas?

Thanks,
Amitos80

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  1. Editorial Team

    Google are releasing android components for YouTube “in the coming months”, so hopefully by the end of 2012.

    What I am doing in the meantime is using a WebView with loadData(), and passing in an IFrame as stated on the YoUTube API page. The Iframe is quite limited (most parameters don’t even work, like controls=0), so if you need more flexibility like controlling the view then use the JavaScript API and then embed the JavaScript in the HTMl you pass into loadData.

    I tried the Media Controller and couldn’t get it to work, even though YouTube use it in there own app.

    The other thing to try which i didn’t get around to. Is to use the google search apis. You can specify a YouTube video and it will give you the URL’s to the thumbnails, videos etc. This way you can get to the raw files (www.youtube.com/…../…./myfile.3gp) rather than calling a webpage. These might then be loadable in the MediaController.

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