Play a Local Video File

Author: Bugfish

Created at: 2020-09-02 06:45:29

Modified at: 2025-09-20 01:49:41

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Here the code to display a video in a videoView element.

VideoView videoview         =  findViewById(R.id.VIDEOVIEWID);

Uri uri = Uri.parse(STRING PATH TO FILE);
MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
mediaController.setAnchorView(videoview);

videoview.setMediaController(mediaController);
videoview.setVideoURI(uri);
videoview.start();

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