Video from resources is not displaying

Issue

I'm trying to display an mp4 video from the app resources inside a VideoView, referring to this answer and this tutorial I used the following way:

// make the videoView visible
storyVideo.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
// set Video Preferences
storyVideo.requestFocus();
storyVideo.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);
// get & set the video URI
Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.story_media4);
storyVideo.setVideoURI(uri);
// Start The Video
storyVideo.start();

where story_media4 is stored in the raw file in resources:

Solution

Actually the video was displaying but not showing, with the help of this answer, I could display the video after setting video_view.setZOrderOnTop(true); on both video URI setting and video prepared listener method:

// set Video Preferences
storyVideo.requestFocus();
storyVideo.setZOrderOnTop(true);
// get & set the video URI
Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.story_media4);
storyVideo.setVideoURI(uri);
// when the video is ready for display
storyVideo.setOnPreparedListener(onVideoPrepared);

private MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener onVideoPrepared = new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
    @Override
    public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
        storyVideo.setZOrderOnTop(true);
        // to start the video
        storyVideo.start();
    }
};

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Update: For the above method, the video is going on Top of all of the views, if -for a reason- you want the video to be covered by one or more views (like sticker or description text) the best way is to set the background of the video to TRANSPARENT :

storyVideo.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

Answered By - Muhammed Refaat