Matthew Patience wrote:
> I am attempting to make a VideoView to obviously play videos on. When
> I use the following code though I get the error "Cannot cast from View
> to VideoView" on the marked line below.
>
> public class VideoView extends Activity {
>
> private String video_link;
> private VideoView video_view;
>
> @Override
> public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
> setContentView(R.layout.youtube_player);
>
> video_view = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video_view); ***ERROR
> "Cannot cast from View to VideoView"
>
> Bundle video_bundle = getIntent().getExtras();
> video_link = video_bundle.getString("LINK");
>
> }
>
> }
>
> I have pretty much copied exactly what is shown in the API Demo
> included in the SDK. Not sure what I've done wrong.
You have named your Activity subclass "VideoView". That name will take
preference over android.widget.VideoView. I would recommend you change
the name of the activity to something that won't collide with an SDK class.
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