How to hide the controls in the VideoView in Android?

Question

I am using VideoView for playing video in my app but I would like to hide the controls in it. How can I do that? Thanks.

use framelayout and put videoview and other controls that you want to hide/show. (e.g. play-pause button in middle of the videoview, that hide/show when video is playing or in pause state). — Hiren Dabhi, Mar 12 '12 at 05:30

score 76 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 18 '21 at 17:25

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To the Controls in the VideoView, we can set MediaController to null.

videoView.setMediaController(null)

edited Sep 18 '21 at 17:25

double-beep

answered Mar 12 '12 at 05:29

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It works but on some devices you will get the Null point exception: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at android.widget.VideoView.setMediaController(VideoView.java:270) – Marqs Mar 30 '12 at 15:05
but in case of only hide forward button? – Ahmad Arslan Apr 18 '16 at 09:23
The later answer works better than the accepted answer here. Setting in invisible controller is more predictable behavior than setting null. – Matthew Bahr Jul 07 '17 at 00:24

ZimaXXX · Answer 2 · 2013-10-21T14:03:19.450

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Try this:

MediaController ctrl = new MediaController(context);
ctrl.setVisibility(View.GONE);
videoView.setMediaController(ctrl);

edited Oct 21 '13 at 14:03

answered Oct 21 '13 at 12:25

ZimaXXX

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Due to me using MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener to control the volume of my videoview i didnt have the luxury of setting .setMediaController(null), instead this soultion worked perfectly. thanks! – Logic1 Jun 24 '15 at 05:56
This is weird. if ctrl.setVisible(View.VISIBLE) after .GONE, it doesnt show – chitgoks Oct 27 '21 at 02:15

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