Where to put the Video file in android Project

Question

I have a video, I need to know where to place and how to get the path of that video.

I know how to add the video form URL,

 Uri uri=Uri.parse("www.abc.com/myVid.mp4");
        videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.videoView);
        videoView.setVideoURI(uri);

This works fine, but now the video file is in my project, I need to know how to get the path from the folder structure

Kindly guide me.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can create asset folder inside your project and store your video in that folder.

Then you can get that using getAssets() function which is provided by Android.

EDIT 1:

You can click on the Project window, press Alt-Insert, and select Folder -> Assets Folder. Android Studio will add it automatically to the correct location.

Also, you can do this.

VideoView view = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.videoView);
String path = "android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.video_file;
view.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path));
view.start();

Where video_file is your file name.

Answer 2

You can view your own video by creating a folder under res as follows:

• Right click on res -> New -> Android Resource Directory
• select Resource type as raw

Then you can upload your video into this directory.

VideoView videoView = videoViewFragment.findViewById(R.id.videoView);
String path = "android.resource://" + getActivity().getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.video01;
herevideoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path)); 
videoView.start();

video01 is your mp4 file name