MediaController positioning over VideoView

Setting the anchor view will only work if the videoview size is known – it will not be upon init. But you can do something like this:

video.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
            mp.setOnVideoSizeChangedListener(new OnVideoSizeChangedListener() { 
            @Override
            public void onVideoSizeChanged(MediaPlayer mp, int width, int height) {
                /*
                 * add media controller
                 */
                mc = new MediaController(YourActivity.this);
                video.setMediaController(mc);
                /*
                 * and set its position on screen
                 */
                mc.setAnchorView(video);
            }
        });
    }
});