I am playing youtube videos in webview .In my app i have overridden the ontouch of webview. SO when user clicks on webview playing video, it opens another webview which is full screen . Now here the video is starting from the beginning. Instead of that is there a way to get the current postion of the video and to start playing from that point in the new webview.
ie i am looking for something equivalent to getCurrentposition and seekto in a videoview.
Please let me know if this is possible or is there any work around.
Thank you
I have done this before and I warn you that things might get messy in future!
Anyways, take a look at "JavaScriptInterface" for webview in android. here is a link
Also take a look at google's youtube player
There is Android youtube player as well as players using javascript/iframe etc.
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Impossible to autoplay youtube videos in an Android webview by using youtube iframe API. Does someone knows if that is possible?
As already mentioned in Mobile Considerations, functions and parameters such as autoplay, playVideo(), loadVideoById() won't work in all mobile environments due to the restrictions wherein HTML5 <video> element only allows playback to take place if it's initiated by a user interaction.
You may, however, try the given suggestions in the following SO posts and might work for you:
Youtube Api android autostart
You can use loadVideo() method which loads and plays the specified video. And, there is also the cueVideo() method, which adds the video to the playlist, but does not automatically start playing the video.
Android webview html5 video autoplay not working on android 4.0.3
You can usually work around it by triggering the play() on another event (eg the onloaded event).
Hope that helps!
I have an activity with a YouTubePlayerSupportFragment within it to play youtube videos.
The youtube player's style is set to CHROMELESS (only video, no controls), and playback is controlled by my own custom play/pause button outside of the player's view. Every thing works as expected until the moment I leave the video activity for whatever reason and then come back to it.
Upon leaving the activity the video is paused - as expected - but after returning to it, requesting the player to player.play() does nothing. No errors nor exceptions, it just does nothing. Play() will only work again after I load a new video..
I've trying using YouTubePlayerFragment instead, but the result is the same. However, when using the DEFAULT style pressing the default play button will apparently reload the video (I see the buffer being flushed) from the previous position and work as expected. This leads me to believe that they're handling it somehow directly on their UI control code instead of on the player API..
I can reproduce this issue on the SDK's custom controls sample just by starting a video, pressing the recents key and returning to it so I think it's safe to assume that this is a bug..
Has anyone been able to work around this issue? is there any way to detect that the video needs to be reloaded while this isn't fixed?
Info: I'm using youtube's android player API v1.2.2 and the latest youtube app v10.49.59
After hours, the only solution I found was to save video position on Pause event and reload video (player.loadVideo) on PostResume event (when YouTubeFragment is resumed). But I don't known if this is the only/best solution.
I am showing a web page in webview which includes a video. What I need is a way to know when the video streaming starts in the webview? I need to do something when this happens. Is there some kind of event or notification etc. available for this? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
I'm trying to make an Android App and I need help.
Do you have any idea how to play a online video (like a video on Youtube) in side-by-side view at the very same time by using Android WebView?
so, when I watch a Youtube video, I want to be able to have two views on left and right side on My Android SmartPhone Screen, and play and control the same video both on left and right views at the very same time.
Regards.
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following things I've tried and failed.
・using Youtube API, get 3gp address, and try to play it with VideoView
・Using draw method and getDrawingCache method of WebView
・using onShowCustomView of WebView
Look at using a html5 video player like Video.js or Sublime Video. You will need to create some javascript with each of these that fires the left and right video at the same time.
You can also look at what this guys did for some more inspiration.
http://html5demos.com/two-videos
The trick is getting the videos to fire at the same time if you need them in sync. It's not easy to achieve if you don't control the source video and server as you are relying on an outside party to do this. YouTube is NOT a good choice for serving your videos if you need them to be in sync as you can't guarantee the video load and launch times, or control if an ad will get injected into the video stream.
I would like to play a HTML5 video back to the user directly in the native android video player.
My current setup takes way too much effort to get into the native video player: Currently I have a WebView with an embedded HTML5 video (such as a Youtube or Vimeo HTML5, not flash, embed). The user has to hit play on the video, and then hit the fullscreen button (on far right in the picture below)
Then it opens in the native player which looks like this:
The native player is a View is a much better experience for video playback. (I believe it is a VideoView? though maybe it is different in newer versions of Android. It is a View within my Activity so provides extra control. See this post for more info.)
I'm looking for a graceful way of directly launching into this experience instead of having to load the embed in a WebView and then leaving it to the user to tap the full screen button.
Any ideas?
Thanks!