Android Question wrap video intent to a panel

[a2stepper]

i'm playing a video using intent/video and works good but is there a way i can put
that into a panel or put a background or image behind it?

thanks.
Paul

 

[DonManfred]

Who is the destination of the intent? Is it your app or another app which runs then?
Usually a intent calls another app. Your app is in the background (your activity is paused)

What do you want to show in a paused activity?

 

[a2stepper]

Dim i As Intent
i.Initialize(i.ACTION_VIEW, "http://www.site.com/video.mp4")
i.SetType("video/*")
StartActivity(i)

this is code i'm using to play video.
paul

 

[DonManfred]

So android will use a suiteable app and start it. Can you confirm that your activity is being paused after you start the intent? Put a log command in activity_pause to log it
I would guess YES; another app is running to show the video.

You can use the mediaplayer i believe to show the video in your app

 

[Erel]

You can use VideoView from the Audio library to play video files.

 

[a2stepper]

ok thanks but where to find the videoview library? can't find it. for b4a
paul

 

[NJDude]

ok thanks but where to find the videoview library? can't find it. for b4a
paul

The AUDIO library.

 

[a2stepper]

yes thanks, i did download library but not working, i've tried every example in the forum and nothing works.
thanks anyway..
paul

 

[NJDude]

The Audio library is part of the B4A distribution, no need to download it.

Can you elaborate what you mean by "nothing works"?, no code = no clue.

 

[a2stepper]

java.lang.RuntimeException: Object should first be initialized (VideoView). this is the error i always get on different examples.

code:

Sub Globals
Dim vv As VideoView
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
Activity.LoadLayout ("1")
vv.Initialize("vv")
Activity.AddView(vv, 10dip, 10dip, 250dip, 250dip)

vv.loadvideo("http","http://videoservice.us/mobile/photo/photo.mp4")

vv.Play

End Sub


Sub vv_Complete
Log("Playing completed")
End Sub

 

[Erel]

This code as is works fine here. Can you upload the project that fails?