How to play YouTube video in my Android application

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How do I play YouTube videos in my application  I want to play video by streaming it directly from YouTube without downloading  Also  while playing videos  I want provide menu options  I don t want to play video using default intent  How can I do this

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you can use this project to play any you tube video , in your android app . Now for other video , or Video id ... you can do this https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/eminemvevo/uploads/ where eminemvevo = channel .

after finding , video id , you can put that id in cueVideo("video_id")

src -> com -> examples -> youtubeapidemo -> PlayerViewDemoActivity

  @Override
  public void onInitializationSuccess(YouTubePlayer.Provider provider, YouTubePlayer player , boolean wasRestored) {
    if (!wasRestored) {
      player.cueVideo("wKJ9KzGQq0w");
    }
  }

And specially for reading that video_id in a better way open this , and it as a xml[1st_file] file in your desktop after it create a new Xml file in your project or upload that[1st_file] saved file in your project , and right_click in it , and open it with xml_editor file , here you will find the video id of the particular video .

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Use YouTube Android Player API   activity main xml     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt RelativeLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools  android id    id activity main  android layout width  match parent  android layout height  match parent   tools context  com example andreaskonstantakos vfy MainActivity  gt    lt com google android youtube player YouTubePlayerView     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android visibility  visible      android layout centerHorizontal  true      android id    id youtube player      android layout alignParentTop  true    gt    lt Button android text  Button  android layout width  wrap content  android layout height  wrap content  android layout alignParentBottom  true  android layout centerHorizontal  true  android layout marginBottom  195dp  android visibility  visible  android id    id button    gt     lt  RelativeLayout gt    MainActivity java   package com example andreaskonstantakos vfy    import android os Bundle  import android view View  import android widget Button  import com google android youtube player YouTubeBaseActivity  import com google android youtube player YouTubeInitializationResult  import com google android youtube player YouTubePlayer  import com google android youtube player YouTubePlayerView     public class MainActivity extends YouTubeBaseActivity    YouTubePlayerView youTubePlayerView  Button button  YouTubePlayer OnInitializedListener onInitializedListener    Override protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout activity main         youTubePlayerView    YouTubePlayerView  findViewById R id youtube player        button    Button  findViewById R id button          onInitializedListener   new YouTubePlayer OnInitializedListener               Override          public void onInitializationSuccess YouTubePlayer Provider provider  YouTubePlayer youTubePlayer  boolean b                 youTubePlayer loadVideo  Hce74cEAAaE                  youTubePlayer play                      Override          public void onInitializationFailure YouTubePlayer Provider provider  YouTubeInitializationResult youTubeInitializationResult                             button setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View v     youTubePlayerView initialize PlayerConfig API KEY onInitializedListener                           and the PlayerConfig java class       package com example andreaskonstantakos vfy          Created by Andreas Konstantakos on 13 4 2017       public class PlayerConfig    PlayerConfig      public static final String API KEY     xxxxx       Replace the  Hce74cEAAaE  with your video ID from https   www youtube com watch v Hce74cEAAaE  Get your API KEY from Console developers google com and also replace it on the PlayerConfig API KEY  For any further information you can follow the following tutorial step by step  https   www youtube com watch v 3LiubyYpEUk

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Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  http   www youtube com watchv cxLG2wtE7TM     startActivity intent

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I didn t want to have to have the YouTube app present on the device so I used this tutorial   http   www viralandroid com 2015 09 how-to-embed-youtube-video-in-android-webview html     to produce this code in my app   WebView mWebView     Override public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        setContentView R layout video webview       mWebView  WebView findViewById R id videoview          build your own src link with your video ID     String videoStr     lt html gt  lt body gt Promo video lt br gt  lt iframe width   420   height   315   src   https   www youtube com embed 47yJ2XCRLZs   frameborder   0   allowfullscreen gt  lt  iframe gt  lt  body gt  lt  html gt         mWebView setWebViewClient new WebViewClient              Override         public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading WebView view  String url                    return false                        WebSettings ws   mWebView getSettings        ws setJavaScriptEnabled true       mWebView loadData videoStr   text html    utf-8          video webview  lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent      android layout marginLeft  0dp      android layout marginRight  0dp      android background   000000      android id    id bmp programme ll      android orientation  vertical   gt       lt WebView     android id    id videoview       android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content        gt     lt  LinearLayout gt         This worked just how I wanted it  It doesn t autoplay but the video streams within my app   Worth noting that some restricted videos won t play when embedded

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MediaPlayer mp new MediaPlayer     mp setDataSource path   mp setScreenOnWhilePlaying true   mp setDisplay holder   mp prepare    mp start

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You may use iframe as described in https   developers google com youtube iframe api reference  I am not following the google advises exactly but this is the code I am using and it is working fine  public class CWebVideoView        private String url      private Context context      private WebView webview      private static final String HTML TEMPLATE    webvideo html        public CWebVideoView Context context  WebView webview            this webview   webview          this context   context          webview setBackgroundColor 0           webview getSettings   setJavaScriptEnabled true              public void load String url           this url   url          String data   readFromfile HTML TEMPLATE  context           data   data replace   1   url           webview loadData data   text html    UTF-8               public String readFromfile String fileName  Context context            StringBuilder returnString   new StringBuilder            InputStream fIn   null          InputStreamReader isr   null          BufferedReader input   null          try               fIn   context getResources   getAssets   open fileName  Context MODE WORLD READABLE               isr   new InputStreamReader fIn               input   new BufferedReader isr               String line                   while   line   input readLine       null                    returnString append line                           catch  Exception e                e getMessage              finally               try                   if  isr    null                      isr close                    if  fIn    null                      fIn close                    if  input    null                      input close                  catch  Exception e2                    e2 getMessage                                    return returnString toString               public void reload             if  url  null               load url                       in  assets I have a file called webvideo html   lt  DOCTYPE html gt   lt html lang  en  gt       lt head gt           lt meta charset  utf-8  gt           lt style gt              iframe     border  0  position fixed  width 100   height 100   bgcolor   000000                 body       margin  0  bgcolor   000000              lt  style gt               lt  head gt       lt body gt           lt iframe src   1  frameborder  0  allowfullscreen gt  lt  iframe gt       lt  body gt   lt  html gt    and now I define a webview inside my main layout   lt WebView     android id    id video      android visibility  gone      android background   000000      android layout centerInParent  true      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent    gt    and I use CWebVideoView inside my activity  videoView    WebView  view findViewById R id video   videoView setVisibility View VISIBLE   cWebVideoView   new CWebVideoView context  videoView   cWebVideoView load url

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This answer could be really late  but its useful    You can play youtube videos in the app itself using android-youtube-player   Some code snippets   To play a youtube video that has a video id in the url  you simply call the OpenYouTubePlayerActivity intent  Intent intent   new Intent null  Uri parse  ytv     v   this               OpenYouTubePlayerActivity class   startActivity intent     where v is the video id   Add the following permissions in the manifest file    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    and also declare this activity in the manifest file    lt activity          android name  com keyes youtube OpenYouTubePlayerActivity  gt  lt  activity gt    Further information can be obtained from the first portions of this code file   Hope that helps anyone

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Steps    Create a new Activity  for your player fullscreen  screen with menu options   Run the mediaplayer and UI in different threads   For playing media - In general to play audio video there is mediaplayer api in android   FILE PATH is the path of file - may be url youtube  stream or local file path    MediaPlayer mp   new MediaPlayer        mp setDataSource FILE PATH       mp prepare        mp start        Also check  Android YouTube app Play Video Intent have already discussed this in detail

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This is the btn click event  btnvideo setOnClickListener new OnClickListener      public void onClick View v         startActivity new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW Uri parse  http   www youtube com watch v Hxy8BZGQ5Jo          Log i  Video    Video Playing                      this type it opened in another page with the youtube where u can show your video

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Google has a YouTube Android Player API that enables you to incorporate video playback functionality into your Android applications  The API itself is very easy to use and works well  For example  here is how to create a new activity to play a video using the API   Intent intent   YouTubeStandalonePlayer createVideoIntent this    lt  lt YOUTUBE API KEY gt  gt      lt  lt Youtube Video ID gt  gt    0  true  false        startActivity intent     See this for more details

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