Android VideoView orientation change

Question

I am having a VideoView playing video on my Android app. When I try it on the portrait orientation, the video fills the screen. But when I change the orientation to landscape, the video takes up only half the screen space. I am using FILL_PARENT, FILL_PARENT as the layout parameters.

Is there a way I can have the video fill the screen in both orientations?

Answer 1

Your video might be just too small. You can center it in parent to make it look better. Or try to request bigger video from your provider.

Answer 2

If it fills the screen perfectly in portrait mode how will it ever fit perfectly in landscape mode without changing the aspect ratio?

The same goes for the reverse - if it fits perfectly in landscape mode, when you change to portrait it won't take up all the vertical space.

Answer 3

You might consider making two different layouts for portrait and landscape views. Let's assume you have "/res/layout/main.xml" file. In the "/res/" folder make a child folder and name it "layout-land", the R file is going to be automatically generated! Here is a snapshot just to make it easier...

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after you can edit each layout independently... This is the most common way of working with orientation change, when it comes to layouts.

Best regards,

Igor