Gray play icon when using google ima in Android WebView

[Franklin Waller]

When using the Google IMA library in a Android WebView we see a gray play button for a few seconds and then the advertisement. 

It looks like a poster is set on the video element. But the "poster" doesn't come from any resources it looks like it comes from Android itself.

Is there a way to fix this? I'm using the HTC One M8 and Android 6.0. I'm using the regular WebView from android.

The gray play icon looks like this:

[Vu Chau (IMA SDK Team)]

Hi Franklin,

The poster is indeed the default one that the ChromeClient uses when you are not specifying a custom one.  To "hide" that poster or to use your own, you'd need to override getDefaultVideoPoster() as follows:

Get your WebView object:

WebView mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.web_view);
mWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClientCustomPoster());




Override getDefaultVideoPoster():

private class WebChromeClientCustomPoster extends WebChromeClient {

@Override

public Bitmap getDefaultVideoPoster() {

return Bitmap.createBitmap(10, 10, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);

}

}

Vu Chau

IMA sdk Team

[Franklin Waller]

Hi Vu Chau,

This seems to do the trick.

Thanks alot!