Android VideoView resizing won't resize video

Question

I have a VideoView which resizes on keyboard events. I observed that the video (played by VideoView) will not resize even though the VideoView's layout is changed (the changes are clearly visible). Is there any call I need to make to resize the video to the new layout?

I have tried 'invalidate()' and 'requestLayout()', but they did not work.

Answer 1

You need to create a custom VideoView since it require to invoke these 2 methods :

onMeasure() and onConfigurationChanged()

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Android VideoView orientation change with buffered video

Answer 2

Use FrameLayout as parent of videoView

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="fill_parent">

   <VideoView
       android:id="@+id/myVideo"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="match_parent"
       android:layout_gravity="center" />

</FrameLayout>

Answer 3

I managed to re-actualize my VideoView size by doing this after changing it's owner Layout:

mVideoView.getHolder().setSizeFromLayout();