Android: Is it possible to display video thumbnails?

Question

I created a video recording application with library dialog. The library dialog displays the list of recorded videos where each item consists of icon, video title, tags and location information the following way:

Does anyone know whether it is possible to replace icons with video thumbnails (single frame preview)?

Thanks!

Answer 1

if you don't or cannot go through cursor and if you have only paths or File objects, you can use since API level 8 (2.2) public static Bitmap createVideoThumbnail (String filePath, int kind)

Android documentation

The following code runs perfectly:

Bitmap bMap = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(file.getAbsolutePath(), MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND); 

Answer 2

If you are using API 2.0 or newer this will work.

int id = **"The Video's ID"** ImageView iv = (ImageView ) convertView.findViewById(R.id.imagePreview); ContentResolver crThumb = getContentResolver(); BitmapFactory.Options options=new BitmapFactory.Options(); options.inSampleSize = 1; Bitmap curThumb = MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.getThumbnail(crThumb, id, MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND, options); iv.setImageBitmap(curThumb);