How Do I Play Video in ListView like Instagram and Vine?

Question

I\'m new to android development and I am trying to play multiple videos in a listview. Currently, each listview row item is a VideoView. This approach has not worked as the Vi

Answer 1

For playing videos in Listview, you need to open Video on Item Click of ListView then you can retrieve your video url in String like:

String  myUrl = urHashMaparraylist.get(position).get("videolocation");

Now pass this myUrl to next Activity and just set this String as a

 Uri video = Uri.parse(myUrl);
 videoView.setVideoURI(video);

listView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView parent, View view, int position, long id) 
     {
        String  myUrl = urHashMaparraylist.get(position).get("videolocation");
        Intent n = new Intent(YourActivityName.this , NewActivityName.class);
        n.putExtra("videolocation",myUrl);
        startActivity(n);    
    }

});

Now in your next Activity retrieve it as a

Uri video = Uri.parse(url);
videoView.setVideoURI(video);

In some case, for setting VideoView,you can use:

 android:background:"#0000"

as from Android Scrollview having videoview is giving problem

Instead of VideoView you can also try using TextureView for reference you can see number 2 reference:

For more reference for video streaming ... you can check the following url: 1>http://developer.samsung.com/android/technical-docs/Android-Media-Streaming-Tutorial

2>http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/TextureView.html