title: Is there a way to get html5 video (youtube, vimeo, etc) to play in the native video player automatically?
body: <p>I would like to play a HTML5 video back to the user directly in the native android video player.</p>
  
  <p>My current setup takes way too much effort to get into the native video player: Currently I have a WebView with an embedded HTML5 video (such as a Youtube or Vimeo HTML5, not flash, embed). The user has to hit play on the video, and then hit the fullscreen button (on far right in the picture below)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OCunH.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Then it opens in the native player which looks like this:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YHF6Z.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>The native player is a View is a much better experience for video playback.  (I believe it is a VideoView? though maybe it is different in newer versions of Android. It is a View within my Activity so provides extra control. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4989738/how-to-play-a-video-in-a-webview-with-android">See this post</a> for more info.)</p>
  
  <p>I'm looking for a graceful way of directly launching into this experience instead of having to load the embed in a WebView and then leaving it to the user to tap the full screen button.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>