Android embedded HTML5 video

Question

I have an embedded html file in my file system, it works fine if I drag n drop the file to

assets/index.html

and I have tested the HTML5 video playback from here. Works fine.

Now, if I want to show an embedded page with HTML5 video [working on browser] as an embedded file, just by changing the sample code for the HTML5 android webView player and drag n drop the index.html in assets for this project, it doesn't work, the app crashes with this error:

sorry, the app * has stopped unexpectedly...

so I just change

mWebView.loadUrl("http://freebsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~freedom/html5/");

to

mWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");

It doesn't work.

What am I missing, is there a basic example of HTML5 video embedded?

Please see this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3815090/webview-and-html5-video — BoD, May 23 '12 at 12:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 16 '12 at 17:59

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Try putting index.html in assets/www/index.html and change mWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html"); to mWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");

edited Nov 16 '12 at 17:59

joequincy

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answered Aug 05 '12 at 11:23

Rishi

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 10 '13 at 11:26

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Try using loadDataWithBaseURL:

String baseUrl = shouldUseCachedFiles ? "file:///android_asset/"
                        :mUrl;
mWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(baseUrl, htmlContent, "text/html",
                        "utf-8", baseUrl);

where the htmlContent is retrieved with an AsynchTask and loaded into the webView.

edited Mar 10 '13 at 11:26

grc

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answered Mar 01 '13 at 13:23

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Android embedded HTML5 video

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