Play Video from xml : Android

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I am making an app which has two activities ie MainActivity with a listview and second activity is a Video View.I use xml to populate listview and am successful I also stored video Url in a xml.What i need is I would like to play that videos from xml on VideoView when user click on corresponding listview list.How can i accomplish this?

You need to get the listview item by knowing the position and match the position to the correspoding video, this can be done in Java file but aint sure without seeing your code. Please post what have you tried so far — San, Mar 08 '14 at 09:09
@Hari i used this tutorial http://www.androidhive.info/2012/02/android-custom-listview-with-image-and-text/ to populate list view from server.No i need is when i click on corresponding link video must be played on videoview — Govind Narayan, Mar 08 '14 at 09:14
@GovindNarayan so what have you tried for it? where are you stuck exactly? — Syn3sthete, Mar 08 '14 at 09:16

Piyush · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-08T12:43:29.233

You are parse your data in XML format so obviously you have store your all data in HashMap Arraylist with particular key for your Video url.

Now, what can do, If 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);

EDIT:

  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

Intent n = getIntent();
String url = n.getStringExtra("videolocation");

Now you can set this string to your VideoView as a

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

It worked.Thankyou.Btw just edit next to "Now in your next Activity retrieve it as a" String myUrl — Govind Narayan, Mar 08 '14 at 12:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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when i did something like that I used, these 3 links:

http://developer.samsung.com/android/technical-docs/Android-Media-Streaming-Tutorial

Video Streaming and Android

How to Play Streaming Audio/Video from a url?

I hope that is what you are looking.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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