Play YouTube videos with YouTube app from webView

NameTaken33 · by **NameTaken33** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:15 pm

So I've leeched here quite a bit and haven't contributed at all so I figure I would share this. This is was bothering me for about 2 days straight until I figured it out.

First you need to set up webView on your Android App with Intent. Intent will allow you to open the actual YouTube app from your webview app.

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YOUR PACKACGE NAME SHOULD GO HERE
 
import android.app.Activity;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
 
public class main extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
     @ Override
     
     
     public void onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState) {
         super. onCreate (savedInstanceState);
       
 
     
         setContentView (R.layout.main);
 
         WebView web = (WebView) findViewById (R.id.webView);
         web. getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled (true); 
         web. getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically (false);
         web. getSettings().setPluginsEnabled (true);
         web. getSettings().setSupportMultipleWindows (false);
         web. getSettings().setSupportZoom (false);
         web. setVerticalScrollBarEnabled (false);
         web. setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled (false);
 
        
         web. loadUrl ("THE URL TO YOUR WEBVIEW SITE SHOULD GO HERE");
 
         web. setWebViewClient (new WebViewClient () {
             @ Override public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
             if (url.startsWith("vnd.youtube")){
                 
             startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url)));
              
             return true;
             }
             else
             {
             return false;
             }
             }
         });
     }
     
 } 
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Then when linking videos from your site to YouTube to open the YouTube app all you need is:

<a href="vnd.youtube://VIDEOID">WATCH ME</a>

Simply replace VIDEOID, with the actual video ID of the video you want to watch and when you click it, it will launch the YouTube app with the video.

I'm going to go cry now that something so simple took me forever to figure out. >_< Hopefully others can find this helpful.

eazyigz · by **eazyigz** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:12 pm

I wish this worked for any YouTube videos being loaded through the WebView Client. Currently, when I press the play button on a YouTube video in the WebView, nothing happens.

Play YouTube videos with YouTube app from webView

Play YouTube videos with YouTube app from webView

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