How To Force Alpha Blending On A Videoview

I have an android app that displays a VideoView with buttons in front of it. On the target device the buttons display on top properly until the VideoView redraws itself (for insta

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I did find a solution. It appears because I was switching back into this view from other intents with similar VideoViews I needed to suspend the video using VideoView.suspend() before I switched to another intent or back from that intent to this one. I speculate this is because the hardware only had one good hardware video buffer and it kept the VideoView I had just left in the buffer.