# cprcrack/VideoEnabledWebView

Android's WebView and WebChromeClient class extensions that enable fully working HTML5 video support

Repository: https://github.com/cprcrack/VideoEnabledWebView
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/videoenabledwebview
Language: Java
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-04-23T22:35:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4344, "days_push": 2323, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1056, forks 288 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:24.647660+00:00)

## What it is
Two Java extension classes (VideoEnabledWebView and VideoEnabledWebChromeClient) that add reliable HTML5 <video> support to Android's WebView, including inline playback and fullscreen handling. It works from Android 2.2 onward and was tested up to Android 4.4's Chromium WebView.

## Use cases
- play html5 videos inside an android webview
- make webview videos go fullscreen and exit fullscreen automatically
- fix videos not playing a second time in webview
- show loading indicator for webview video playback
- embed inline video in a hybrid android app

## When to choose
- you are building an Android app with a WebView that must render <video> content reliably across devices
- you need fullscreen video behavior that the stock WebView lacks
- you target older Android API levels where WebView video support is broken

## When to avoid
- you use modern Android WebView versions where HTML5 video mostly works out of the box
- you need a maintained solution - the project has not been updated since 2020
- you are not on Android/Java

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, video-processing
- domain: mobile-development, web-development
- platform: jvm
- tags: webview, html5-video, android-library, fullscreen-video, video, android

## Member repositories
- cprcrack/VideoEnabledWebView (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:24.647660+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:58:22.284168+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cprcrack/VideoEnabledWebView (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:24.647660+00:00, sha 14ad72e55013)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.