Where to store local video for playback in Android Studio

Question

I am making a simple video playback application in Android Studio. The video is approximately 600MB, and has an appropriate title (no spaces etc.). The video will be played back using VideoView.

Where should the video be saved? When it is placed in src/res/raw, (like other files I am using such as .wav for sound effects), it creates resource errors. Do I create a new folder called assets and store the videos there?

Answer 1

Noooo. You will not put that video in your apk. Will your app exceed 600mb size on playstore. See on google documentation.

Google Play currently requires that your APK file be no more than 100MB

Solution:

• First try to compress your video, as you don't need high resolution video.
• Put video on cloud (like Amazon s3 bucket).
• Download this video file at run time in device from Amazon. And then play it anywhere from device storage.