How to play YouTube Video without using Intent

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I want to play YouTube videos in my application. I already tried following code: but this shows a complete action using YouTube but I don't want this. I would like to play videos directly. How can I achieve this?

context.startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUuBdtsQx6U")));

could you give sample code for how to make custome player in android — user2982189, Dec 26 '13 at 07:05
https://github.com/vanevery/Pro-Android-Media/tree/master/Pro%20Android%20Media%20Ch%209%20-%20Custom%20Video%20Player%20MediaPlayer%20with%20MediaController — Avijit, Dec 26 '13 at 07:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '13 at 07:05

You can create your own Activity and MediaPlayer to play the video, like :

MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
mp.setDataSource(FILE_PATH);
mp.prepare();
mp.start();

FILE_PATH is the path of file - may be url(youtube) stream or local file path.

Or else open the webview in your application:

WebView webview = new WebView(this); 

String htmlString = "<html> <body> <embed src=\"youtube link\"; type=application/x-shockwave-flash width="+widthOfDevice+" height="+heightOfDevice+"> </embed> </body> </html>";

webview.loadData(htmlString ,"text/html", "UTF-8");

Hope this helps !!!

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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You've to use the Youtube Player API, and play it in VideoView.

Check out this SO Post . It works correctly.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Dec 26 '13 at 07:06

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