I want to play embedded videos (not youtube videos) in my android app. I know how to use iframe but i dont get options fo seek to skip. Is there any library for that to play iframe videos easily in android app?
This works for me
webviewWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview_web_view);
webviewWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
webviewWebView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON_DEMAND);
webviewWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
String customHtml = "<iframe width=\"380\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLBRur06WH1SlYw3rIr051vPw442oBB50e\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>";
webviewWebView.loadData(customHtml, "text/html", "UTF-8");
I just added a webview to my app to load a simple article with a video on it and some text.
The text shows up as it should but it's as if the video is not even an invisible element.
WebView browser = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webArticle);
browser.setScrollBarStyle(WebView.SCROLLBARS_OUTSIDE_OVERLAY);
WebSettings settings = browser.getSettings();
settings.setBlockNetworkLoads(false);
settings.setBlockNetworkImage(false);
settings.setAllowContentAccess(true);
settings.setLoadsImagesAutomatically(true);
settings.setAllowFileAccess(true);
settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
settings.setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
browser.loadUrl(url);
At first ,You need to add this
getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
getSettings().setUserAgent(USER_MOBILE);
Then Add to the Application Manifest File (Below Permission):
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
For demo code Play YouTube video in WebView
play youtube video in WebView
I am developing an android app.This app has a webview. It contains several youtube iframes. When I click the video, it is opened in the webview. But I want to open the video in new full screen or native video player.
This is code snippet
webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
mWebChromeClient = new myWebChromeClient();
webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
webView.getSettings().setSaveFormData(true);
webView.loadUrl("http://m.youtube.com");
But When I open m.youtube.com from chrome and when I click any video, The video is being opened in new video screen. How can I do the same like chrome.
I have been googled and read all other problem in stackoverflow.com I haven't get any successfull result.
Please help.
Thank you.
So I've searched around on SO a fair bit today and have made significant progress, but now I'm having an issue that I haven't seen pop up anywhere. I've embedded a YouTube video into an HTML file using an iframe as such:
<body>
<div align="center">
<iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="320"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9DNAyD4ll6E?html5=1" frameborder="0">
</div>
</body>
and I'm displaying it in a WebView that I'm modifying in my activity like so:
WebView welcomeWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.welcomeVideo);
welcomeWebView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
welcomeWebView.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(false);
welcomeWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
welcomeWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/welcome.html");
The issue I'm having is that the still image display and controls show up, but when I click on play I'm presented with a gray screen that has a film strip and play icon in it. Here's the screen shots for the before/after for hitting play
http://www.ptrprograms.com/youtubeapp.png
http://www.ptrprograms.com/youtubeapp2.png
If anyone has seen this before or can point me in the right direction for displaying a video, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!
EDIT: I also know that I can just use an intent to open it in a YouTube app, but my client (a non-profit that I'm donating this app to) is pretty specific about wanting it embedded into a page where we can have a textview with more information below it.
So I ditched the external asset for the webview and instead decided to load it in the activity itself, and it seems to work a lot better (it actually runs :))
WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.welcomeVideo);
String play= "<html><body><div align=\"center\"> <iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/9DNAyD4ll6E?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\"></div></body></html>";
webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
});
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.loadData(play, "text/html", "utf-8");
webView.setBackgroundColor(0x00000000);
This is about loading youtube videos using latest embedded format (iframe) inside a webview.
Example of the iframe embed format
<iframe width="637" height="358" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/olC42gO-Ln4?fs=1&feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
Test the code on Android 2.3.3 & 3.2 devices (HTC Desire & Asus Transformer), the webview would only show a black rectangle.
I tried a similar embed from vimeo
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/35693267" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0"></iframe>
In 2.3, video played correctly
In 3.2, a black rectangle flashed and disappeared, the iframe area is blank.
Finally if the old embed format (using the object tag) is used, the video is displayed properly inside the webview in both 2.3.3 & 3.2.
I have checked related questions and added
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
in the application and/or activity tag but still no video in both 2.3 & 3.2 devices.
This is a big problem because more websites are now using the newest format (iframe) to embed their youtube videos. Android/Youtube Team, please take a look at this problem.
Android browsers are utterly buggy what comes to video playback and embedding. It simply does not work across devices. Trying to get it working is just waste of your time. My suggestion is that you don't try to include <iframe> but simply provide a thumbnail of the video which directly links to YouTube page or h264 file.
Earlier discussion, with a possible solution.
Google Reader-esque optimizing of WebViews on Android
If you want to play videos within your WebView you NEED to load the data with a base URL!
DONT do this:
mContentWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, webViewContentString,
"text/html", "UTF-8", null);
DO THIS INSTEAD:
//veryVeryVery important for playing the videos!
mContentWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(theBaseUrl, webViewConentString,
"text/html", "UTF-8", null);
The Base URL will be the something like the "original" url of what you are displaying in your WebView. So let's say you are making a news reader, the WebView's base url will be the url of the original story.
Good Luck!
Also remember to set up your WebView...Like so...
mContentWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
mContentWebView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
mContentWebView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON_DEMAND);
mContentWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
mContentWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
You need to have hardware acceleration turned on in the Manifest (only available on SDK 14 and above).
Ex. Hardware Acceleration On:
<application
android:name="com.example.app"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme"
android:hardwareAccelerated="true">
<!-- hardwareAccelerated requires SDK 14 -->
...
</application>
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.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html
(Hope it help someone)
This worked for me- the code opens youtube site and can play its videos inside WebView:
mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
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());
I would suggest using some code to detect the environment of the user... use the iframe code only for ios devices (iphone, ipod, ipad) and use the old code for everyone else.
This Code made exactly fit to different device
webView.setInitialScale(1);
webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());
webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
webView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
webView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON_DEMAND);
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
DisplayMetrics displaymetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displaymetrics);
int height = displaymetrics.heightPixels;
int width = displaymetrics.widthPixels;
Log.e(SimpleBillsConstants.SIMPLE_BILLS, width + "-" + height);
String data_html = "<!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <meta charset=\"UTF-8\"><meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"target-densitydpi=high-dpi\" /> <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\"> <link rel=\"stylesheet\" media=\"screen and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio:1.5)\" href=\"hdpi.css\" /></head> <body style=\"background:black;margin:0 0 0 0; padding:0 0 0 0;\"> <iframe style=\"background:black;\" width=' "+width+"' height='"+height+"' src=\""+ VIDEO_URL+"\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe> </body> </html> ";
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("http://vimeo.com", data_html, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);