how to show the progress bar before playing the video

Question

i want to show the progress dialog before playing video. i tried below link example for playing video.

http://davanum.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/android-%E2%80%93-videomus

Answer 1

IMHO in this case it's more graceful to use ProgressBar widget insted of Progress dialog. It looks better on the video surface. You could add the progress bar to your activity's layout above the VideoView:

In onCreate, before calling runOnUiThread, show the progress:

mProgress = (ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.progress);
mProgress.setVisibility( View.VISIBLE );

In onPrepared callback hide the progress:

mProgress.setVisibility( View.INVISIBLE );