Android: Is it possible to display video thumbnails?

If you are using API 2.0 or newer this will work.

int id = **"The Video's ID"**
ImageView iv = (ImageView ) convertView.findViewById(R.id.imagePreview);
ContentResolver crThumb = getContentResolver();
BitmapFactory.Options options=new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize = 1;
Bitmap curThumb = MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.getThumbnail(crThumb, id, MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND, options);
iv.setImageBitmap(curThumb);

if you don't or cannot go through cursor and if you have only paths or File objects, you can use since API level 8 (2.2) public static Bitmap createVideoThumbnail (String filePath, int kind)

Android documentation

The following code runs perfectly:

Bitmap bMap = ThumbnailUtils.createVideoThumbnail(file.getAbsolutePath(), MediaStore.Video.Thumbnails.MICRO_KIND);