How to hide the controls in the VideoView in Android?

Question

I am using VideoView for playing video in my app but I would like to hide the controls in it. How can I do that? Thanks.

Answer 1

To the Controls in the VideoView, we can set MediaController to null.

videoView.setMediaController(null) 

Answer 2

Try this:

MediaController ctrl = new MediaController(context); ctrl.setVisibility(View.GONE); videoView.setMediaController(ctrl);