title: Does android support playlists for video files?
body: <p>I'm and android beginner, so go easy on me ;-)</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to play a sequence of video files which I'm downloading from a server.
  The challenge is that I want to have a smooth transition from one file to another.</p>
  
  <p>My thought is to have two MediaPlayer instances each preparing and then playing in turn. It is not clear to me if they can both share the same SurfaceView?
  Or maybe, I should be using different views and swapping between them?
  Or, the idea is a bad idea all together?</p>
  
  <p>When I try to run configure the MediaPlayer instance with a view that isn't visible it seems to crash my emulator.</p>