play youtube video in WebView

Question

In my android app I have a WebView to display html data from our website. Sometimes the page will have youtube embed objects. This doesn\'t show up properly in the app. Is t

Answer 1

Read my post on the android-developers group here: YouTube in the emulator?

Basically, the best way to play YouTube clips is to create your own Activity for it, and here's a great example: Polish Your App: Free Embeddable Android YouTube Activity!

UPDATE: The problems with the incompatibilities due to YouTube token changes have been fixed. Latest version of the component should work just fine for public YouTube videos.