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Editor to share with you how Android uses VideoView to play videos, I believe most people do not know much about it, so share this article for your reference, I hope you can learn a lot after reading this article, let's learn about it!

Give Android VideoView a file directory and you can play video files directly from smart devices. Now take test.mp4, a video file that was shot and renamed with your phone beforehand, as an example.

(1) you need to write a ViedoView in the layout file:

(2) Don't forget to add permission to read and write external storage in the AndroidManifest.xml file:

(3) set the file directory for VideoView in the java code, and then play it on start:

Public class MainActivity extends Activity {@ Override protected void onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState) {super.onCreate (savedInstanceState); setContentView (R.layout.activity_main); VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById (R.id.videoView); / / the path obtained is equal to: / storage/emulated/0/DCIM File path = Environment .getExternalStoragePublicDirectory (Environment.DIRECTORY_DCIM) / / stitching the full path File f = new File (path, "/ Camera/test.mp4"); / / f.getAbsolutePath () = / storage/emulated/0/DCIM//\ Camera/test.mp4 videoView.setVideoPath (f.getAbsolutePath ()) at this time; / / starting video playback videoView.start (); / / VideiView gaining focus / / videoView.requestFocus () }} above is all the content of the article "how to play videos with Android using VideoView". Thank you for reading! I believe we all have a certain understanding, hope to share the content to help you, if you want to learn more knowledge, welcome to follow the industry information channel!

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