Android VideoView is not working for online video streaming

Question

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_s);
    VideoView vidView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.videoView);
    MediaController vidControl = new MediaController(this);
    String vidAddress = "VideoURL";
    Uri vidUri = Uri.parse(vidAddress);
    vidView.setVideoURI(vidUri);
    vidControl.setAnchorView(vidView);
    vidView.setMediaController(vidControl);

Activity was launched successfully but unable to play the video.

Answer 1

Add this:

vidView.start();

You have to include this permissions on AndroidManifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

You could try 3rd party library like: easy-video-player