VideoView onPrepared is not called if the VideoView is invisible

Question

I am hiding the VideoView initially and when the video is loaded I am showing the VideoView. But onPrepared is never called if the VideoView is invisible initially. However onPrepared is called properly if VideoView is visible. Is there any way to hide the videoView until video is loaded. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="match_parent" >   <VideoView         android:id="@+id/video"         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="match_parent"         android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"         android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"         android:layout_alignParentRight="true"         android:layout_alignParentTop="true"         android:visibility="invisible" />  </RelativeLayout> 

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {      @Override     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);          VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video);         Uri videoUri = Uri.parse(url);         videoView.setVideoURI(videoUri);         videoView.requestFocus();          videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {              @Override             public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {                 Toast.makeText(mActivity, "on prepared", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();                    videoView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);               }         });   } 

Answer 1

You could try setting alpha channel of video view to 0 or close to 0.

Answer 2

Solved it making its layout invisible instead of videoView itself. Thanks to @J.Kowalski .

Layout:

<FrameLayout     android:id="@+id/layout_video_view"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content">     <VideoView         android:id="@+id/video_view"         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:clickable="false"         android:scrollbars="none"/> </FrameLayout>  <ProgressBar     android:id="@+id/progress"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:layout_gravity="center"     android:visibility="gone"     /> 

Set OnPreparedListener:

videoView.setOnPreparedListener(this); 

Show progress bar before ready:

@Override public void showProgress() {     progress.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);     layoutVideoView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); } 

Load video URI:

@Override public void loadVideo(Uri uri) {     videoView.setVideoURI(uri); } 

When its ready, onPrepared is called:

@Override public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {     Log.d("debug", "onPrepared");     iStepPreviewPresenter.onVideoViewReady(); } 

Finally show layout and start video:

@Override public void hideProgress() {     progress.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);     layoutVideoView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE); }  @Override public void startVideo() {     videoView.start(); } 

Nailed it!