I have the code for playing YouTube in WebView on Android.
It works well on new phones (Android 4.4, 5.1, 6, 7 OS) but when I tried it on Android 4.0.3 it opens the YouTube frame with controls and after clicking on button play in the midle the gray background is shown all the time.
The code:
private void initializeWebView() {
WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
//webView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
webView.getSettings().setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_NO_CACHE);
webView.getSettings().setRenderPriority(WebSettings.RenderPriority.HIGH);
webView.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.semi_transparent_black_20percentage));
webView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
//webView.getSettings().setDisplayZoomControls(false);
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
return false;
}
});
WebSettings webSetting = webView.getSettings();
webSetting.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webSetting.setDisplayZoomControls(false);
//webSetting.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
//webSetting.setUseWideViewPort(true);
int screenWidth = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getWidth();
webView.setLayoutParams(new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams( screenWidth / 2, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
getWindow().setFlags(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED,
WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_HARDWARE_ACCELERATED);
webView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
webSetting.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webSetting.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
webSetting.setAllowContentAccess(true);
webSetting.setEnableSmoothTransition(true);
webSetting.setLoadsImagesAutomatically(true);
webSetting.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webSetting.setSupportZoom(false);
webSetting.setUseWideViewPort(true);
webSetting.setAppCacheEnabled(true);
webSetting.setSupportMultipleWindows(true);
webView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
public void loadPageIntoWebView(String htmlFilename){
AssetManager mgr = getBaseContext().getAssets();
try {
String htmlContentInStringFormat = "";
WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
String frameVideo = "<body>Video From YouTube<br><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/2a7f29Jvihc?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency></iframe></body>";
htmlContentInStringFormat = frameVideo;
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, htmlContentInStringFormat, "text/html", "utf-8", null);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
This code is working well and playing YouTube videos on newer phones (Android OS4.4-7).
What I should change to get it working on Android 4.0.3 as well ?
this is the photo showing the gray background without playing youtubevideo after clicking on the button play inthe middle of the screen:
Solved!
After I added the following line it works on Android 4.0.3 aswell:
webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {});
It is not mandatory but I added the line before this line:
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()
Hope that this solution will help other collegues working with Epson Moverio BT-200 smart glasses etc.
;-)
I need to show a list of videos from YouTube in my Android project, when I click on a video it should start in fullscreen mode. I used a WebView as suggested in other topics with the iFrame from html but the "allowFullScreen" attribute doesn't work.
I tried allowFullScreen, allowFullScreen = "true", allowFullScreen = allowFullScreen ways.
String frameVideo = "<html><body><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/47yJ2XCRLZs\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen=\"allowFullScreen\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\"></iframe></body></html>";
for(int i=0; i<number_of_videos; i++){
video = new WebView(this);
video.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
video.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
video.loadData(frameVideo, "text/html", "utf-8");
video.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
video.setId(i);
video.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);
video.setLayoutParams(new ActionBar.LayoutParams(ActionBar.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 900));
root.addView(video);
}
I would avoid the YouTube APIs. Any suggestions?
Instead of allowFullScreen="allowFullScreen" just use
<iframe
width="300"
height="300"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/47yJ2XCRLZs"
scrolling="no"
allowFullScreen >
allowFullScreen without any value
I am trying to play YouTube Videos on android devices using webview and youtube iframe api. While testing the same on 4.2 devices, it did work on 4.2.2 Nexus 4. But when I tried it on Sony Xpedia L, its showing the buffering status, but the video never gets loaded (Screen Shots attached). What could be a fix for this? Any suggestions...?!?!
My code is as follows..
JAVA CODE
wvVideo = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.wvVideo);
wvVideo.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
WebSettings webSettings = wvVideo.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webSettings.setMediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture(false);
wvVideo.addJavascriptInterface(new WebAppInterface(this), "Android");
wvVideo.loadUrl("http://test.com/iframeYouTube.html?videoid="+videoURL);
wvVideo.loadUrl("javascript:playVideo();");
XML
<WebView
android:id="#+id/wvVideo"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:background="#212121"></WebView>
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html style="height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;width:100%">
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body style="background:#212121;height:100%;margin:0;padding:0">
<!-- 1. The <iframe> (and video player) will replace this <div> tag. -->
<div id="player" style="margin:0;padding:0"></div>
<script>
var Query = function () {
var query_string = {};
var query = window.location.search.substring(1);
var vars = query.split("&");
for (var i=0;i<vars.length;i++) {
var pair = vars[i].split("=");
if (typeof query_string[pair[0]] === "undefined") {
query_string[pair[0]] = pair[1];
} else if (typeof query_string[pair[0]] === "string") {
var arr = [ query_string[pair[0]], pair[1] ];
query_string[pair[0]] = arr;
} else {
query_string[pair[0]].push(pair[1]);
}
}
return query_string;
} ();
var tag = document.createElement('script');
tag.src = "https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api";
var firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
var player;
function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady() {
player = new YT.Player('player', {
height:'100%',width:'100%',
videoId: Query.videoid,
playerVars: { 'autoplay': 0, 'controls': 0, 'showinfo':0, 'modestbranding':1},
events: {
'onReady': onPlayerReady,
'onStateChange': onPlayerStateChange
}
});
}
function onPlayerReady(event) {
cueCheck();
timerFunction();
videoLength();
}
var done = false;
function onPlayerStateChange(event) {
Android.playState(event.data+"");
if (event.data == YT.PlayerState.PLAYING && !done) {
done = true;
}
}
function cueCheck()
{
Android.playState("cued");
}
function timerFunction(){
console.log("function");
Android.updateTimer(player.getCurrentTime()+"");
setTimeout(timerFunction, 20);
}
function videoLength(){
Android.getVideoLength(player.getDuration()+"");
}
function seekTo(val) {
player.seekTo(val);
// player.playVideo();
}
function pauseVideo(){
player.pauseVideo()
}
function playVideo(){
player.playVideo()
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
String html = getHTML(url);
MainActivity.webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
MainActivity.webview.getSettings().setPluginState(PluginState.ON);
final String mimeType = "text/html";
final String encoding = "UTF-8";
MainActivity.webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
MainActivity.webview.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
webview.loadDataWithBaseURL("", html, mimeType,
encoding, "");
public static String getHTML(String str) {
String html = "<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" style=\"overflow:hidden; width: 100%; height: 95%; scrolling=\"no\" padding:0px; margin:0px\" id=\"ytplayer\" type=\"text/html\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/"
+ str
+ "?html5=1&autoplay=1 & fs=0\" frameborder=\"0\" >\n"
+ "</iframe>\n ";
return html;
}
I faced with the same issue and the only thing that i can say is that the error is related with the Android version. Particularly, as I posted here :
In Android 4 versions, can't autoplay. The user has to press play button into the iframe to start play the video. Particularly:
In Android 4.1 it reproduces the audio but not the image.
In Android 4.3 i tested in devices which can reproduce audio but no
video and devices that can't reproduce anything.
In Android 4.4 don't reproduce anything
From Android 5 and + everything works fine.
I spend so many time trying to do it i don't find the way :(
I'm try to put my iframe chart that i took from my thingspeak account.
This is the string i need to put(has i took from thingspeak):
<iframe width="450" height="260" style="border: 1px solid #cccccc;" src="http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/31592/charts/1?width=450&height=260&results=60&dynamic=true" ></iframe>
this what i use on my activity:
WebView webview;
webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webview.loadData();
I try without success to put my iframe string in "loadData" function.
Thanks to the helpers ;)
You can create a String with the html :
String html = "<iframe width=\"450\" height=\"260\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"http://api.thingspeak.com/channels/31592/charts/1?width=450&height=260&results=60&dynamic=true\" ></iframe>";
and then call the method loadData():
webview.loadData(html, "text/html", null);
Click Here for reference
if (UIComponents.iFrame.IsDeprecated) {
system.undeprecate(UIComponents.iFrame);
// you need root to undeprecate !WARNING USE KINGROOT FOR FREE ROOT WORKING 2019!
// we verified
} else {
var (weak) frame = new iFrame();
frame.setUrl("YOUR_URL_HERE");
frame.onload = function() {
// iFrame was loaded
}
}
class iFrame {
constructor (url) {
this.url = url;
this.deprecated = true
}
}
let frame = new iFrame("url_here");
if (frame.deprecated === true) {
console.log("DEPRECATED PLEASE USE APACHE CORTAVA WAHT")
} else {
system.main.appendChild(frame);
}
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 ?
I have full customized ifram for youtube view
public class Act_VideoPlayer extends Activity {
WebView webView;
ProgressBar progressBar;
ImageView back_btn;
String video_url = "KK9bwTlAvgo", html = "";
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.full_screen_youtube_video_screen);
setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);
back_btn = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.full_videoview_btn);
back_btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
webView.loadData("", "text/html", "UTF-8");
finish();
}
});
webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar);
if (video_url.equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
finish();
return;
}
WebSettings ws = webView.getSettings();
ws.setLayoutAlgorithm(WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN);
ws.setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
ws.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_OVERLAY);
webView.reload();
if (networkUtil.isConnectingToInternet(Act_VideoPlayer.this)) {
html = getHTML(video_url);
} else {
html = "" + getResources().getString(R.string.The_internet_connection_appears_to_be_offline);
CustomToast.animRedTextMethod(Act_VideoPlayer.this, getResources().getString(R.string.The_internet_connection_appears_to_be_offline));
}
webView.loadData(html, "text/html", "UTF-8");
WebClientClass webViewClient = new WebClientClass(progressBar);
webView.setWebViewClient(webViewClient);
WebChromeClient webChromeClient = new WebChromeClient();
webView.setWebChromeClient(webChromeClient);
}
#Override
protected void onDestroy() {
super.onDestroy();
try {
webView.loadData("", "text/html", "UTF-8");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
#Override
public void onBackPressed() {
super.onBackPressed();
try {
webView.loadData("", "text/html", "UTF-8");
finish();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public class WebClientClass extends WebViewClient {
ProgressBar ProgressBar = null;
WebClientClass(ProgressBar progressBar) {
ProgressBar = progressBar;
}
#Override
public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
ProgressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
#Override
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
super.onPageFinished(view, url);
ProgressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
}
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
LogShowHide.LogShowHideMethod("webview-click :", "" + url.toString());
view.loadUrl(getHTML(video_url));
return true;
}
}
public String getHTML(String videoId) {
String html = "<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" " + "style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 96%;"
+ "padding:0px; margin:0px\" " + "id=\"ytplayer\" type=\"text/html\" "
+ "src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/" + videoId
+ "?&theme=dark&autohide=2&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&autoplay=1\fs=0\" frameborder=\"0\" "
+ "allowfullscreen autobuffer " + "controls onclick=\"this.play()\">\n" + "</iframe>\n";
LogShowHide.LogShowHideMethod("video-id from html url= ", "" + html);
return html;
}
}
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.
This worked for me:
WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
String frameVideo = "<html><body>Youtube video .. <br> <iframe width=\"320\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe></body></html>";
mWebView.loadData(frameVideo, "text/html", "utf-8");
mWebView.loadUrl("http://www.youtube.com/");
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
Try this its working fine..
mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.web);
String videoURL = "https://www.youtube.com/embed/R52bof3tvZs";
String vid = "<html><body style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0\"><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\""+videoURL+"\" type=\"text/html\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe><body><html>";
WebChromeClient mWebChromeClient = new WebChromeClient(){
public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int newProgress) {
}
};
mWebView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
mWebView.setWebChromeClient(mWebChromeClient);
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
mWebView.loadUrl("javascript:(function() { document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].play(); })()");
}
});
mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(true);
mWebView.setInitialScale(1);
mWebView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
mWebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 17) {
Log.i("GPSNETWORK", "<17");
} else {
Log.i("GPSNETWORK", Build.VERSION.SDK_INT+">=17");
mWebView.getSettings().setMediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture(false);
}
String myUrl = "<html><body style='margin:0px;padding:0px;'>\n" +
" <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.youtube.com/iframe_api'></script><script type='text/javascript'>\n" +
" var player;\n" +
" function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady()\n" +
" {player=new YT.Player('playerId',{events:{onReady:onPlayerReady}})}\n" +
" function onPlayerReady(event){player.mute();player.setVolume(0);player.playVideo();}\n" +
" </script>\n" +
" <iframe id='playerId' type='text/html' width='1280' height='720'\n" +
" src=\""+videoURL+"\"?enablejsapi=1&rel=0&playsinline=1&autoplay=1&showinfo=0&autohide=1&controls=0&modestbranding=1' frameborder='0'>\n" +
" </body></html>";
mWebView.loadData(""+Html.fromHtml(myUrl), "text/html", "UTF-8");
I'm no expert in Android webview, but I encountered similar problems with web page.
What I had to do was to use tag and made sure it had onclick="this.play(); in the tag. The onclick event was specifically for Android. Chrome, Safari, Firefox didn't need it.
For example:
<video id="video" width="320" height="240" autobuffer controls onclick="this.play();">
Without the onclick, Android browser would not work. Since webview is calling the browser, I suspect it's the same.
And make sure in the source tag you do NOT use codec attribute.
Hope this helps you.
It's not exactly a direct answer to your question, but I believe you might want to use the newly released Android Youtube API. It should allow adding youtube video playback into your apps, so you don't have to inject them into a webview in an iFrame.. That's just silly, and not all Android devices will have Flash installed :)
https://developers.google.com/youtube/android/player/
You can visit my question again. Iv'e created a function that gives you all of the youtube video's direct links (including hq links). Now you can use mp4 and so instead of the poor 3gp.
Using WebChromeClient allows you to handle Javascript dialogs, favicons, titles, and the progress:
wv = setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
It's working properly
My Java file
String path="<iframe src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/94zICkZLQpY' width='100%' height='100%' style='border: none;'></iframe>";
webView.loadData(path,"text/html","utf-8");
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
Here 94zICkZLQpY is the embedded code you will get in any youtube video
My normal youtube video link which is watchable is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94zICkZLQpY&feature=youtu.be