VideoView onPrepared is not called if the VideoView is invisible

Question

I am hiding the VideoView initially and when the video is loaded I am showing the VideoView. But onPrepared is never called if the VideoView is invisible initially. However onPrepared is called properly if VideoView is visible. Is there any way to hide the videoView until video is loaded. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

activity_main.xml

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


<VideoView
        android:id="@+id/video"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:visibility="invisible" />

</RelativeLayout>

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video);
        Uri videoUri = Uri.parse(url);
        videoView.setVideoURI(videoUri);
        videoView.requestFocus();

        videoView.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {

            @Override
            public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
                Toast.makeText(mActivity, "on prepared", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();


                 videoView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);


            }
        });


}

Answer 1

You could try setting alpha channel of video view to 0 or close to 0.