How to play a video in a webview with android?

Question

I loaded a local html in sdcard, and in this html I used tag :

<video id="myvideo" controls width="120" height="60" poster="img/img01.jpg" src="video/01.mp4"></video>

and then I found that I didn't loaded this html, when I disabled the tag:, the html was working fine, and I tested this in my android avd(2.2) ?

Answer 1

First of all care the encoding. Here it's an article with a working example and some guidelines to encode videos for Android webkit.

And then... when I had to face this issue, I had to research a bit and found some useful answers. Basically you have to open the video the way the native browser does

public class InredisChromeClient extends WebChromeClient implements OnCompletionListener, OnErrorListener {
    private InterfazWebInredis interfazWeb; // Use Your WebView instance instead

    private VideoView mCustomVideoView;

    private LinearLayout mContentView;
    private FrameLayout mCustomViewContainer;
    private WebChromeClient.CustomViewCallback mCustomViewCallback;
    private LinearLayout mErrorConsoleContainer;
    static final FrameLayout.LayoutParams COVER_SCREEN_GRAVITY_CENTER = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(
            ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
            ViewGroup.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, Gravity.CENTER);

    public InredisChromeClient(InterfazWebInredis iwi) {
        super();
        this.interfazWeb = iwi;
    }

    public void onShowCustomView(View view, CustomViewCallback callback) {
        // super.onShowCustomView(view, callback);
        if (view instanceof FrameLayout) {
            mCustomViewContainer = (FrameLayout) view;
            mCustomViewCallback = callback;
            mContentView = (LinearLayout) interfazWeb.findViewById(R.id.mainContainer);
            if (mCustomViewContainer.getFocusedChild() instanceof VideoView) {
                mCustomVideoView = (VideoView) mCustomViewContainer.getFocusedChild();
                // frame.removeView(video);
                mContentView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                mCustomViewContainer.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                interfazWeb.setContentView(mCustomViewContainer);
                mCustomVideoView.setOnCompletionListener(this);
                mCustomVideoView.setOnErrorListener(this);
                mCustomVideoView.start();
            }
        }
    }

    public void onHideCustomView() {
        if (mCustomVideoView == null)
            return;
        // Hide the custom view.
        mCustomVideoView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        // Remove the custom view from its container.
        mCustomViewContainer.removeView(mCustomVideoView);
        mCustomVideoView = null;
        mCustomViewContainer.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        mCustomViewCallback.onCustomViewHidden();
        // Show the content view.
        mContentView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
        mp.stop();
        mCustomViewContainer.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        onHideCustomView();
        interfazWeb.setContentView(mContentView);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onError(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
        interfazWeb.setContentView(R.layout.main);
        return true;
    }
}

So, this code is much inspired on the android project source code of the browser.

And well, the behaviour of this is opening the video full-screen. I don't know if it's possible to play the video in its own frame within the webpage. But this solution did the trick for me, I hope for you too.

Regards