How to play vimeo videos within my app?

Question

I want to play vimeo videos in my application. I am able to get the Videos from the channel and play in the browser or in the vimeo application, but i want the video to be played in my application. Is there any API for this like open youtube. Please help me in doing this.

for now i am using this to play video in the vimeo app or in the browser.

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://player.vimeo.com/video/"+vid_id)));

Answer 1

As far as I know all you need is a webview.

Url would be something like:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/<VIDEO_ID_GOES_HERE>?player_id=player&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=1&api=1

Edit: Vimeo offers a html5 player, see here: http://vimeo.com/blog/post:268 this way you should be able to read the filename and play this in your application.

Edit 2: html5 is not available anylonger .