play youtube video in WebView

Question

In my android app I have a WebView to display html data from our website. Sometimes the page will have youtube embed objects. This doesn't show up properly in the app. Is there any way to show/play youtube videos in WebView ? Thanks.

Answer 1

You cannot show them embedded except perhaps on devices that have Flash.

However, if you can parse out the YouTube video details, you may be able to construct an ACTION_VIEW Intent that will show them on the YouTube application...for those Android devices that have the YouTube application.

You might also experiment with HTML5's <video> tag, which AFAIK is supported in the Browser application and may therefore work in WebView.

Answer 2

I came accross this post: link

And indeed, I basically only needed to add to the application manifest xml:

android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

And voila, even the youtube video's started playing