Loading Youtube video through iframe in Android webview

Question

I want to load youtube video to Android webview using iframe

here is my layout Xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@android:color/white"
android:id="@+id/mainLayout">

<WebView
    android:background="@android:color/white"
    android:id="@+id/webView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</RelativeLayout>

My code is:

public class WebTube extends Activity {

private WebView wv;

String html = "<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 95%; padding:0px; margin:0px\" id=\"ytplayer\" type=\"text/html\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/WBYnk3zR0os"
            + "?fs=0\" frameborder=\"0\">\n"
            + "</iframe>";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    wv = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView); 
    wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        wv.loadDataWithBaseURL("", html , "text/html",  "UTF-8", "");

     }
} 

Also I provide <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

& android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

when I run this I didn't get any result its just showing a black screen

I tried this .but this provide me video on .3gp Quality . but I need the videos from youtube on original quality. That's why I am using iframe.

I try code using <object></object> and <video></video> instead of iframe. but it didn't solve my issue.

when I run this code on emulator it shows

Before Pressing Play Button

After Pressing Play button on video

I think we cannot stream videos on emulator since it is a virtual device

But when I run this on phone it's not even showing this result.

I try iframe with a document attach to it works fine on phone as well as emulator

String customHtml = "<iframe src='http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.iasted.org/conferences/formatting/presentations-tips.ppt&embedded=true' width='100%' height='100%' style='border: none;'></iframe>";

So please help me to load videos to this frame.

(I run it on phone). What's the problem? also will iframe work on Android 2.1?

did any one tried Youtube Api ?

Answer 1

I have full customized ifram for youtube view

public class Act_VideoPlayer extends Activity {

    WebView webView;
    ProgressBar progressBar;
    ImageView back_btn;

    String video_url = "KK9bwTlAvgo", html = "";


    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.full_screen_youtube_video_screen);

        setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

        back_btn = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.full_videoview_btn);
            back_btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    webView.loadData("", "text/html", "UTF-8");
                    finish();
                }
            });

            webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
               progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar);

            if (video_url.equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
                finish();
                return;
            }

            WebSettings ws = webView.getSettings();
            ws.setLayoutAlgorithm(WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN);
            ws.setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
            ws.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
            webView.setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_OVERLAY);
            webView.reload();

            if (networkUtil.isConnectingToInternet(Act_VideoPlayer.this)) {
                html = getHTML(video_url);
            } else {
                html = "" + getResources().getString(R.string.The_internet_connection_appears_to_be_offline);
                CustomToast.animRedTextMethod(Act_VideoPlayer.this, getResources().getString(R.string.The_internet_connection_appears_to_be_offline));
            }

            webView.loadData(html, "text/html", "UTF-8");

            WebClientClass webViewClient = new WebClientClass(progressBar);
            webView.setWebViewClient(webViewClient);
            WebChromeClient webChromeClient = new WebChromeClient();
            webView.setWebChromeClient(webChromeClient);
    }




    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        try {
            webView.loadData("", "text/html", "UTF-8");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        super.onBackPressed();
        try {
            webView.loadData("", "text/html", "UTF-8");
            finish();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }


    public class WebClientClass extends WebViewClient {
        ProgressBar ProgressBar = null;

        WebClientClass(ProgressBar progressBar) {
            ProgressBar = progressBar;
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
            ProgressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            super.onPageFinished(view, url);
            ProgressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }

        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            LogShowHide.LogShowHideMethod("webview-click :", "" + url.toString());
            view.loadUrl(getHTML(video_url));
            return true;
        }
    }

    public String getHTML(String videoId) {
        String html = "<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" " + "style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 96%;"
                + "padding:0px; margin:0px\" " + "id=\"ytplayer\" type=\"text/html\" "
                + "src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/" + videoId
                + "?&theme=dark&autohide=2&modestbranding=1&showinfo=0&autoplay=1\fs=0\" frameborder=\"0\" "
                + "allowfullscreen autobuffer " + "controls onclick=\"this.play()\">\n" + "</iframe>\n";
        LogShowHide.LogShowHideMethod("video-id from html url= ", "" + html);
        return html;
    }

}

Answer 2

Try this its working fine..

    mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.web);
    String  videoURL = "https://www.youtube.com/embed/R52bof3tvZs";

    String vid = "<html><body style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0\"><iframe  width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" src=\""+videoURL+"\" type=\"text/html\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe><body><html>";

    WebChromeClient mWebChromeClient = new WebChromeClient(){
        public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int newProgress) {
        }
    };

    mWebView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
    mWebView.setWebChromeClient(mWebChromeClient);
    mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            mWebView.loadUrl("javascript:(function() { document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].play(); })()");
        }
    });
    mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    mWebView.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(true);
    mWebView.setInitialScale(1);
    mWebView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    mWebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 17) {
        Log.i("GPSNETWORK", "<17");
    } else {
        Log.i("GPSNETWORK", Build.VERSION.SDK_INT+">=17");
        mWebView.getSettings().setMediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture(false);
    }

    String myUrl = "&lt;html&gt;&lt;body style='margin:0px;padding:0px;'&gt;\n" +
            "        &lt;script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.youtube.com/iframe_api'&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;\n" +
            "                var player;\n" +
            "        function onYouTubeIframeAPIReady()\n" +
            "        {player=new YT.Player('playerId',{events:{onReady:onPlayerReady}})}\n" +
            "        function onPlayerReady(event){player.mute();player.setVolume(0);player.playVideo();}\n" +
            "        &lt;/script&gt;\n" +
            "        &lt;iframe id='playerId' type='text/html' width='1280' height='720'\n" +
            "        src=\""+videoURL+"\"?enablejsapi=1&amp;rel=0&amp;playsinline=1&amp;autoplay=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;controls=0&amp;modestbranding=1' frameborder='0'&gt;\n" +
            "        &lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;";
    mWebView.loadData(""+Html.fromHtml(myUrl), "text/html", "UTF-8");