Can a videoview play a video stored on internal storage?

MediaPlayer requires that the file being played has world-readable permissions. You can view the permissions of the file with the following command in adb shell:

ls -al /data/data/com.mypackage/myfile

You will probably see "-rw------", which means that only the owner (your app, not MediaPlayer) has read/write permissions.

Note: Your phone must be rooted in order to use the ls command without specifying the file (in the internal memory).

If your phone is rooted, you can add world-read permissions in adb shell with the following command:

chmod o+r /data/data/com.mypackage/myfile

If you need to modify these permissions programmatically (requires rooted phone!), you can use the following command in your app code:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("chmod o+r /data/data/com.mypackage/myfile");

Which is basically a linux command. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions for more on chmod.

EDIT: Found another simple approach here (useful for those without rooted phones). Since the application owns the file, it can create a file descriptor and pass that to mediaPlayer.setDataSource():

FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream("/data/data/com.mypackage/myfile");mediaPlayer.setDataSource(fileInputStream.getFD());

This approach avoids the permission issue completely.

You can use:

videoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(file.getAbsolutePath()));

if the file is world readable

Or you can use a content provider

For detail check this tutorial

public class AndroidVideoViewExample extends Activity {    private VideoView myVideoView;    private int position = 0;    private ProgressDialog progressDialog;    private MediaController mediaControls;    @Override    protected void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        // set the main layout of the activity        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);        //set the media controller buttons        if (mediaControls == null) {            mediaControls = new MediaController(AndroidVideoViewExample.this);        }        //initialize the VideoView        myVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video_view);        // create a progress bar while the video file is loading        progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(AndroidVideoViewExample.this);        // set a title for the progress bar        progressDialog.setTitle("JavaCodeGeeks Android Video View Example");        // set a message for the progress bar        progressDialog.setMessage("Loading...");        //set the progress bar not cancelable on users' touch        progressDialog.setCancelable(false);        // show the progress bar        progressDialog.show();        try {            //set the media controller in the VideoView            myVideoView.setMediaController(mediaControls);            //set the uri of the video to be played            myVideoView.setVideoURI(Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.kitkat));        } catch (Exception e) {            Log.e("Error", e.getMessage());            e.printStackTrace();        }        myVideoView.requestFocus();        //we also set an setOnPreparedListener in order to know when the video file is ready for playback        myVideoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {            public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mediaPlayer) {                // close the progress bar and play the video                progressDialog.dismiss();                //if we have a position on savedInstanceState, the video playback should start from here                myVideoView.seekTo(position);                if (position == 0) {                    myVideoView.start();                } else {                    //if we come from a resumed activity, video playback will be paused                    myVideoView.pause();                }            }        });    }    @Override    public void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onSaveInstanceState(savedInstanceState);        //we use onSaveInstanceState in order to store the video playback position for orientation change        savedInstanceState.putInt("Position", myVideoView.getCurrentPosition());        myVideoView.pause();    }    @Override    public void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {        super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);        //we use onRestoreInstanceState in order to play the video playback from the stored position         position = savedInstanceState.getInt("Position");        myVideoView.seekTo(position);    }}