Video View not playing youtube video?

While not an explicit answer I believe you need to launch an intent with a YouTube URL and let the OS handle it. That is, I don't think you can embed YouTube videos directly into your activities though I would love to be proven wrong.

While there is no public api to invoke the youTube app, you can do so. You should be aware that doing so is potentially fragile, but very likely the only way you can play youtube videos on an android device. – Nick Campion Mar 2 at 4:48 I wouldn't say fragile.

You can code to support it or not but this is what intents were meant to solve. Launch the intent and catch any failed-to-handle exceptions and give a sorry-you-phone-does-not-play-youtube-videos message. In my experience, nearly all commercial phones have YouTube players.

– Andrew White Mar 2 at 18:36.

You specified wrong URI for the video. youtube.com/watch?v=XS998HaGk9M is a web page, but not directly a video stream Here is correct URI example: tsp://v6. Cache4.c.youtube.Com/CigLENy73wIaHwmh5W2TKCuN2RMYDSANFEgGUgx1c2VyX3VwbG9hZHMM/0/0/0/video.3gp Also, this address can be obtained from YouTube API.

For example, from here: gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/phoned....

Android webview and videoviews do not support play back of youtube videos in my experience.

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