{"id":4465,"date":"2020-08-16T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T04:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learntodroid.com\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T06:18:22","slug":"how-to-play-video-in-android-using-videoview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10.0.0.14:32769\/how-to-play-video-in-android-using-videoview\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Play Video in Android Using VideoView"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this post, I have created a tutorial that shows three different ways to load a video in an Android app to be played inside a VideoView.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tutorial covers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>How to Play a Video from a Raw Android Resource Directory in a VideoView widget<\/li><li>How to Play a Video from a URI on the Internet in a VideoView widget<\/li><li>How to Play a Video on the Device using the MediaStore API in a VideoView widget<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>A video version of this tutorial has been published on YouTube and 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