Playing video in a GLSurfaceView instead of SurfaceView

Question

I\'ve been struggling with this for 2 days now... Following this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2006454/444324 - it is mentioned that it\'s possible to play a video in

Answer 1

Why did you implement a class (com.commonsware.android.camera.GLSurfaceView) with the same name as the GLSurfaceView ?

If you declared the view as an android.opengl.GLSurfaceView in layout XML you cannot cast it to com.commonsware.android.camera.GLSurfaceView