Android: Programmatically created VideoView is showing black screen

Question

So I have a

VideoView

that I have made completely programmatically like so:

loadingVideo = new VideoView(getContext());

String videoPath = "android.resource://" + splashActivity.getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.loading_video;

loadingVideo.setVideoURI(Uri.parse(videoPath));

loadingVideo.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(Constants.PIXEL_WIDTH, Constants.PIXEL_HEIGHT));

loadingVideo.setTranslationX(0);

loadingVideo.setTranslationY(0);

loadingVideo.start();

this.widgetContainer.addView(loadingVideo);

I know the video is doing something because I later have an

OnCompletionListener

that does go off, the problem is that I don't ever actually see anything and just get a black screen. I draw the method here:

if(loadingVideo.isPlaying()) {

    loadingVideo.draw(canvas);

    System.out.println();

}

and the

draw(Canvas canvas)

method is refreshed at a rate of 60fps using this:

Canvas canvas = null;

SurfaceHolder sh = getHolder();

boolean unlocked = false;

try {

    if(sh.getSurface().isValid()) {

        canvas = sh.lockCanvas();

        synchronized(sh) {

            draw(canvas);

        }

    }

} catch(Exception e) {

    if(canvas != null && sh.getSurface().isValid()) {

        sh.unlockCanvasAndPost(canvas);

        unlocked = true;

    }

    e.printStackTrace();

} finally {

    if(!unlocked && canvas != null && sh.getSurface().isValid()) {

        sh.unlockCanvasAndPost(canvas);

    }

}

I don't understand why it isn't drawing or what I'm doing wrong.

Side note: I know that the way I'm doing this seems odd but I know it works because I've created other views this way in other projects and they've worked fine. I just can't get the video to show anything other than a black screen.

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Answer 1

loadingVideo.setZOrderOnTop(true);

before the

loadingVideo.start();

Android: Programmatically created VideoView is showing black screen

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