How  to create an android video app
Channel: Mobile Application Tutorials
Date: 18/06/2015

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How to create an android video app using intents.

Much of this tutorial is based on the concepts of the of the "how to create an android app using intents tutorial series" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9jCwTXYWjDJ5Lok6Lba8U_629xeegj_h

This android video app will first record a video by using the MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE action. Once the external video application application has captured the video and returned back to the android video app it will then allow the video to be played back by the play button.

In this tutorial we will cover:
- RelativeLayouts
- Button view
- VideoView
- View.OnClickListener
- Intents
- MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE
- startActivityFromResult
- onActivityResult
- Uri's
- VideoView.setVideoUri
- VideoView.start

This tutorial series is intended for beginners to android who have had some programming experience ideally with an object orientated language such as java or C++ for you will be exposed to writing android java code syntax.


Android studio (1.2.2) is the editor of choice (IDE) for this tutorial series.

This tutorial series is the first of what I expect to be many so I encourage comments and feedback to improve the quality and viewing experience.