How to embed Youtube video in Android WebView?

Question

I want to embed a youtube video in my Android app. It has a Navigation Drawer, and when this drawer is opened, the video must to keep playing. And I\'d like my app could be capa

Answer 1

For my case Android 4.4.4, adding the Referer header "https://www.youtube.com" in first argument of loadDataWithBaseURL() saved my day!

    mWebView = (WebView) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.webView);

    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 8) {
        mWebView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
    } else {
        mWebView.getSettings().setPluginState(WebSettings.PluginState.ON);
    }

    mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    mWebView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
    mWebView.setBackgroundColor(0x00000000);
    mWebView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    String html = "";
    mWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL("https://www.youtube.com", html, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);