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Mulgard
Mulgard

Reputation: 10589

In-Project-Videos - Where to store them and which format?

I have a quite complex android app and for several functions i want to provide some tutorial videos inside the application.

I want to provide a ListView with a thumbnail of the video, a title and a small description. after the user clicks on an item of the listview i want the selected video to be played.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 470

Answers (2)

Alon Zilberman
Alon Zilberman

Reputation: 2155

If you will have lots of videos, you probably don't want to put it inside apk, because apk size is limited + not every user wants to download and store on device app which is more than 50 mb. I recommend you to upload your videos to youtube ( just create you channel and upload as more videos as you need). Than you will be able to use youtube android api to show your videos inside app.

If you don't have lots of videos (overall < 50 mb), I recommend you to create folder row inside res folder and store all your videos there. Then you will be able to access it with built in VideoView. It supports next formats: Supported Media Formats. Example of usage VideoView:

VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video_view);
MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
mediaController.setAnchorView(videoView);
videoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.filename));
videoView.start();

Upvotes: 2

Nikhil Verma
Nikhil Verma

Reputation: 1730

Add a folder 'raw' to your res folder and store videos in them . And for formats see : http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html

And see this : https://stackoverflow.com/a/11348850/4465685

Upvotes: 0

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