How to play Videos inside WebView in android application using Embed code.

Embed is code exchanging technique used to share videos on other website or android applications with a simple line of snipped code that is given by YouTube. The embed code is different for every video and after integrating this code into your Blog or website this will automatically show that particular video on our webpage. By the time pass android applications is back bone of every website because with them android users can easily visit any website without entering their URL again and again. So in this tutorial we are going to Embed Play YouTube video in android WebView Android Studio example tutorial.

How to Embed Play YouTube video in android WebView Android Studio example tutorial.

Note : Please add internet permission inside your AndroidManifest.xml file.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />

Code for MainActivity.java file.

package com.android_examples.embedyoutubevideo_android_examplescom;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    WebView webView ;

    String YouTubeVideoEmbedCode = "<html><body><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/-fEIzQ5JD84\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe></body></html>";


    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);

        webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

            @Override
            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

                return false;
            }
        });

        WebSettings webSettings = webView.getSettings();

        webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

        webView.loadData(YouTubeVideoEmbedCode, "text/html", "utf-8");
    }
}

Code for activity_main.xml layout file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.android_examples.embedyoutubevideo_android_examplescom.MainActivity">

    <WebView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:id="@+id/webView"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

Code for AndroidManifest.xml file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.android_examples.embedyoutubevideo_android_examplescom">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

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