Android: how to play video from assets?

Question

Instead of accessing from assests,You must copy the video into your project's res/raw folder. Create raw folder under res folder. It must be in a supported format (3gp, wmv, mp4 ) and named with lower case, numerics, underscores and dots in its filename likewise:video_file.mp4.

VideoView view = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.videoView);
String path = "android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.video_file;
view.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path));
view.start();

VideoView view = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.videoView);
String path = "android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.video_file;
view.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path));
view.start();

It's AkashG's code, but I remember that R here is not from the Android class. It's from your own project.

You first need to convert your video into the InputStream and then save it to the user's internal storage, then display it and delete that file when the video is finished.

try{
     String path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()+"/"+APP_NAME()+"/videos/"+ls+"/" ;
     InputStream input = getAssets().open("vid/dal.mp4");
     String name = System.currentTimeMillis() +".mp4";
     File f = new File(path);
     f.mkdirs();
     int size = input.available();

     FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(new File(path+name));
     byte data[] = new byte[4096];
     long total = 0;
     int count;
     while ((count = input.read(data)) != -1) {
          output.write(data, 0, count);
          total += count;
          if (size <= total) {
              break;
          }
     }
     output.flush();
     output.close();
     input.close();

     //Toast.makeText(VideoPlayer.this , "file created !" , Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

     Uri uri = Uri.parse(path+name) ;

     videoView.setVideoURI(uri);

     videoview.start();

}cath(Exception e){
}