Embed Youtube video inside an Android app

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I m using a WebView for displaying embedded Youtube video and that works on Galaxcy S2  OS 2 3 5  and doesn t on Nexus S  OS 2 3 4   all I get is white screen without any video display   Here is the code snippet I m using and the declarations in Manifest file   private WebView wv   private void setWebView     wv    WebView  findViewById R id webView    wv setWebChromeClient new WebChromeClient      wv getSettings   setPluginState WebSettings PluginState ON    wv setWebViewClient new WebViewClient       wv getSettings     wv setBackgroundColor 0x00000000    wv setKeepScreenOn true    wv setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled false   wv setVerticalScrollBarEnabled false    wv getSettings   setBuiltInZoomControls true    final String mimeType    text html   final String encoding    UTF-8   String html   getHTML     wv loadDataWithBaseURL     html  mimeType  encoding            public String getHTML      String html     lt html gt            lt head gt        lt  head gt        lt body style   border  0  padding  0   gt        lt iframe       type   text html         class   youtube-player         width  100                  height  95                  src   http   www youtube com v      selected video          controls 0 amp showinfo 0 amp showsearch 0 amp modestbranding 0       amp autoplay 1 amp fs 1 amp vq hd720        frameborder   0   gt  lt  iframe gt            lt  body gt           lt  html gt      return html      Note  the parameter  selected video  is the hash of the video  VideoID    The declarations in Manifest file    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt manifest xmlns android http   schemas android com apk res android      lt uses-permission android name  android permission INTERNET    gt   lt uses-permission android name  android permission ACCESS NETWORK STATE   gt   lt uses-permission android name  android permission ACCESS WIFI STATE     gt    lt application               android hardwareAccelerated  true    gt                 Please let me know in case you recognizing anything I should change in my code  or help with a complete code which can support all Android devices and OS for displaying embedded  In-App  Youtube video with high quality   UPDATE  Pay attention  the solution I m looking for should display high resolution video  I got it work on the different devices and OS using VideoView class but the video quality isn t good enough  So any solution including VideoView or WebView or any other way will be accepted only if it makes high quality YouTube video to be displayed  Thanks to all the responders

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How it looks     Best solution to my case  I need video fit web view size  Use embed youtube link with your video id  Example   WebView youtubeWebView    todo find or bind web view String myVideoYoutubeId    -bvXmLR3Ozc    outubeWebView setWebViewClient new WebViewClient                  Override             public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading WebView view  String url                    return false                             WebSettings webSettings   youtubeWebView getSettings    webSettings setJavaScriptEnabled true   webSettings setLoadWithOverviewMode true   webSettings setUseWideViewPort true    youtubeWebView loadUrl  https   www youtube com embed     myVideoYoutubeId     Web view xml code   lt WebView         android id    id youtube web view          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  200dp   gt

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Embedding the YouTube player in Android is very simple  amp  it hardly takes you 10 minutes    1  Enable YouTube API from Google API console 2  Download YouTube player Jar file 3  Start using it in Your app   Here are the detailed steps http   www feelzdroid com 2017 01 embed-youtube-video-player-android-app-example html    Just refer it  amp  if you face any problem  let me know  ill help you

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The video quality depends upon the Connection speed using API  alternatively for other than API means without YouTube app you can follow this link

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there is an official YouTube Android Player API wich you can use  This is a bit more complicated but it is working better than other solutions using webclients   First you must register your app in Googles API Console  This is completely free until your app gets over 25k request a month  or something like that   There are complete anf great tutorials under the link  I hope you can understand them  If not  ask

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although I suggest to use youtube api or call new intent and make the system handle it  i e  youtube app   here some code that can help you  it has a call to an hidden method because you can t pause and resume webview  import java lang reflect Method   import android annotation SuppressLint  import android os Bundle  import android webkit WebChromeClient  import android webkit WebSettings  import android webkit WebView   import android app Activity    SuppressLint  SetJavaScriptEnabled   public class MultimediaPlayer extends Activity       private WebView mWebView      private boolean mIsPaused   false        Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState                super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout webview            String media url   VIDEO URL           mWebView    WebView  findViewById R id webview           mWebView setWebChromeClient new WebChromeClient              WebSettings ws   mWebView getSettings            ws setBuiltInZoomControls true           ws setJavaScriptEnabled true            mIsPaused   true          resumeBrowser            mWebView loadUrl media url               Override     protected void onPause                 pauseBrowser            super onPause                Override     protected void onResume                 resumeBrowser            super onResume               private void pauseBrowser                 if   mIsPaused                           pause flash and javascript etc             callHiddenWebViewMethod mWebView   onPause                mWebView pauseTimers                mIsPaused   true                       private void resumeBrowser                 if  mIsPaused                           resume flash and javascript etc             callHiddenWebViewMethod mWebView   onResume                mWebView resumeTimers                mIsPaused   false                       private void callHiddenWebViewMethod final WebView wv  final String name                try                       final Method method   WebView class getMethod name               method invoke mWebView             catch  final Exception e

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It works like this   String item    http   www youtube com embed     String ss    your url   ss   ss substring ss indexOf  v      2   item    ss  DisplayMetrics metrics   getResources   getDisplayMetrics    int w1    int   metrics widthPixels   metrics density   h1   w1   3   5  wv getSettings   setJavaScriptEnabled true   wv setWebChromeClient chromeClient   wv getSettings   setPluginsEnabled true    try       wv loadData        lt html gt  lt body gt  lt iframe class   youtube-player   type   text html5   width            w1 - 20            height           h1           src           item           frameborder   0    allowfullscreen   gt  lt  iframe gt  lt  body gt  lt  html gt                                 text html5    utf-8      catch  Exception e        e printStackTrace       private WebChromeClient chromeClient   new WebChromeClient           Override     public void onShowCustomView View view  CustomViewCallback callback            super onShowCustomView view  callback           if  view instanceof FrameLayout                FrameLayout frame    FrameLayout  view              if  frame getFocusedChild   instanceof VideoView                    VideoView video    VideoView  frame getFocusedChild                    frame removeView video                   video start

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Use this Youtube Embed API from google

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Pretty simple  Just put it inside a static method   startActivity new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse linkYouTube

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Refer to this answer  How can we play YouTube embeded code in an Android application using webview   It uses WebViews and loads an iframe in it    and yes it works

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