Center vertically a VideoView on portrait

Question

Is there a way to center a VideoView in activity on portrait. I tried many options, for example:

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

<VideoView
    android:id="@+id/videoView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center|center_vertical" />
</FrameLayout>

Here is how I start the activity:

    val intent = Intent(this, VideoActivity::class.java)
    startActivity(intent)

Here is the code in the activity:

class VideoActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_video)

    val uriPath = "android.resource://" + packageName + "/raw/ad"
    val uri = Uri.parse(uriPath)

    videoView.setVideoURI(uri)
    videoView.requestFocus()
    videoView.start()

   }

}

It keeps aligning to the top:

Use RelativeLayout instead of FrameLayout and in VideoView tag add this attribute "android:layout_centerInParent="true"" It will fix your problem — Mohd Asif Ahmed, Nov 06 '17 at 09:03
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1957831/center-a-button-in-a-linear-layout — IntelliJ Amiya, Nov 06 '17 at 09:18

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 06 '17 at 09:12

You can use this below code.

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:gravity="center">
    <VideoView
        android:id="@+id/videoView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</LinearLayout>

Its work perfectly.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 06 '17 at 09:12

2

Try this,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <VideoView
        android:id="@+id/videoView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

answered Nov 06 '17 at 09:12

Bhavesh Desai

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in my case its works, please provide more code with your video URL if possible – Bhavesh Desai Nov 06 '17 at 11:42

Center vertically a VideoView on portrait

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