Adding a progress spinner to a video view for before it starts or whilst it is buffering.

VideoView Buffering Spinner

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent">

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

  <ProgressBar
    android:id="@+id/my_spinner"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:indeterminate="true"
    android:layout_gravity="center" />

</FrameLayout>

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VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.my_video_view);
ProgressBar spinnerView = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.my_spinner);

videoView.setOnInfoListener(onInfoToPlayStateListener);

private final OnInfoListener onInfoToPlayStateListener = new OnInfoListener() {

        @Override
        public boolean onInfo(MediaPlayer mp, int what, int extra) {
            if (MediaPlayer.MEDIA_INFO_VIDEO_RENDERING_START == what) {
                spinnerView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
            if (MediaPlayer.MEDIA_INFO_BUFFERING_START == what) {
                spinnerView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
            if (MediaPlayer.MEDIA_INFO_BUFFERING_END == what) {
                spinnerView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
            return false;
        }
    };

Note that it is only available since API Level 17.

thanks bro, very helpful!

Bro, Because of it Android throw below exception always ...
E/MediaPlayer: setDataSource: IOException! uri=https://(Link of video).m3u8
java.io.FileNotFoundException: No content provider: https://(Link of video).m3u8

Super Helpful 👍

Very helpful