1- MediaPlayer 2- VideoView 3- MediaPlayer example 4- Playing a video with VideoView example VideoView is a custommized component which is available of Android, it is the combination of MediaPlayer and SuffaceView which help you to play a video more easily. When using VideoView , you can use MediaController , this is available in Android which used to control media (such as start, stop, rewind, pause...) IF you locate VideoView and MediaController in a FrameLayout, you can get interface as follow: 3- MediaPlayer example The following simple example, use Media Player to play a music file and some controls of the play such as play, pause, rewind. Create a project named MediaPlayerTutorial : 4- Playing a video with VideoView example Now, we can see an example with VideoView and MediaController located on the surface of the video. You can preview images in following example: Create a Project named AndroidVideoView :