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Evan Dix
1,641 PointsAttaching videos in my android app!
In my app I need to attach videos! There are 9 individual videos. They need to be hosted locally on the device. The app must not be dependent on an internet connection. HOW DO I DO THIS.
1 Answer
James Pamplona
10,015 PointsThe 'Media Playback' section of the Android documentation has a good overview of this, but here's the gist of it from the Android docs:
In your project, you can put files under your 'res' directory in a package named 'raw'. Then access and play your media files like so:
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(context, R.raw.media_file_1);
mediaPlayer.start(); // no need to call prepare(); create() does that for you
I haven't tried this specifically with video files but I believe it should work basically the same. That should at least get a video playing. Let us know if you have trouble with it. From there the link above has more details.
The 'File Storage' section of the 'Android Data Persistence' lesson is a good resource to become familiar with this type of thing. What he does is slightly different but serves as a good lesson to become familiar with the general concepts involved in working with data in android.
Good luck!