Play a YouTube video embedded in a url in webview

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I have a url which i am displaying in the webview, it coutains embedded youtube video and but i am unable to play the video, i have looked into many posts but none of them seems to help. Can you suggest me some ideas for the workaround of this problem ...

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The embedded player at least works in a WebView on Ice Cream Sandwich, provided it is the new embed code that adapts to flash or html5. However, at least on the tablets we are using to test, a strip of the video on the right side is lost when playback starts. — Dave Cameron, Aug 15 '12 at 19:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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You should consider using a more generic intent to view a video through another app. Webviews are somewhat limited and depend a lot on platform abilities. If you used a third party app, like youtube, your app would then benefit of

a video player choosen by the user himself according to is/her taste
an up-to-date video player, more independant of android native capabilities
one less problem to solve. :)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Dec 27 '11 at 09:33

Snicolas

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What if i dont have the youtube url, the youtube video is embedded in another html page... ?? – King RV Dec 27 '11 at 09:58
extract it using a regular expression pattern. – Snicolas Dec 27 '11 at 10:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '11 at 09:34

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You can use following intent

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8EKth4TTrM")));

answered Dec 27 '11 at 09:34

bindal

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problem is that i dont have the youtube url, it is embedded in another html page... – King RV Dec 27 '11 at 09:56
for that you have to open that html page in webview or parse your html to extract youtube Url – bindal Dec 27 '11 at 09:59
You may try to extract the youtube URL from the html. – brian Dec 27 '11 at 10:06
what if i dont want it to open in a ACTION_VIEW intent not a brower but in my webview only ... ?? – King RV Dec 27 '11 at 10:14
@King: As far as i know, it is not possible to play YouTube video URL's directly in a WebView. – IgorGanapolsky Apr 04 '12 at 14:16

Play a YouTube video embedded in a url in webview

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