title: How can VideoView be made faster to load?
body: <p><code>VideoView</code> takes longer to start playing videos compared to iOS <code>AVPlayer</code> and WP <code>MediaElement</code>. The last two are almost always instantenous in my case, but <code>VideoView</code> takes anywhere between 5 and 15 seconds to start streaming. Are there any tips and tricks to speed it up? I'm setting up video streaming in a way similar to this: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10082728/why-is-the-videoview-so-slow">Why is the videoview so slow?</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm not an Android expert, but I remember reading <code>VideoView</code> internally calls prepare async, so I'm not sure how a separate background task helps. I also noticed YouTube videos on my S6 take longer to open than YouTube on iOS. However, YouTube on S6 is still faster than my naive implementation, so I don't know what I don't know.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any 3rd-party implementations faster than <code>VideoView</code>?</p>