How to implement custom control elements (MediaController) for VideoView?

Question

Android

The VideoView component is used to play a video stream from the network.
Simplified, it looks like this:

final VideoView mVideoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video_view);
mVideoView.setVideoPath("http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4");
MediaController mediaController = new MediaController(this);
mediaController.setAnchorView(mVideoView);
mVideoView.setMediaController(mediaController);
mVideoView.requestFocus();
mVideoView.setOnPreparedListener(new OnPreparedListener() {
    // Close the progress bar and play the video
    public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
        mVideoView.start();
    }
});

How to implement support for custom controls (play/pause buttons, playback indicator, etc.). Restriction: the code must work under API > 15 (i.e. ExoPlayer is not suitable).
Has anyone faced this problem and can you advise?

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