bugs on android native browsers

[benjipott]

There are alot of bugs in the native browser android. +

With controls customControlsOnMobile: true
The controls disappear but never respawn.
The play button starts the video then returns to pause.

Tested on galaxy s2 v 4.1.2
Asus transform v4.1.1

[freechelmi]

I confirm this on Native Android 4.2.2.

WIth default video on videojs.com you don't see any play button , just the slider.

[heff]

Thanks for the heads up. Getting to Android soon.

[AnthorNet]

Any update on that one ?

[gkatsev]

There have been several releases of videojs since. Can you try and retest using the newest videojs release?

[AnthorNet]

Well, I installed AVD, and used "Nexus S" with Android 4.3.
Gone to videojs.com home, and it's not working.

[gkatsev]

I can confirm that this is still a problem. Have latest stable chrome on a Nexus 5 (Android 4.4.2) and http://jsbin.com/uBOtaWug/1/edit still showed the native controls rather than the custom controls

[flucivja]

The controls disappear but never respawn issue is caused by CSS transition: https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/master/src/css/video-js.less#L817
If there is transition set to all then Android has problem with it. It has to be changed to specific property, e.g. opacity.

[davidkaminsky]

Not sure what the status of the bug is but here's what I'm seeing. If I enable the big play button on Android 4.2.2 (Galaxy Tab 3 8") I am still seeing the video start for a split second and return to pause. I got around this by getting getting rid of the big play button so you're directly hitting the video to start its playback. This appears to be what videojs.com is doing as well.

I am seeing another issue not mentioned here though. If you close the browser to go to another application and then go back to it, there's no way to make it start playing again. On videojs.com tapping on the video does nothing. Scrubbing to another position makes it spin forever and never start playing. In my own player using the api to ask it to start playing also does nothing. Only way I can get it working again is to refresh the page.

[mmcc]

Can anyone confirm if either of these are still happening? There have been a few improvements to Android / mobile support in general, so it'd be great to verify this is still problematic before digging back in.

[davidkaminsky]

I can confirm that the big play button issue is fixed. I can also say that the issue with closing the browser and going to another application is a limitation of the browser and not a problem with video.js. Even youtube suffers from this.

[mmcc]

@davidkaminsky Thanks! Good to hear the big play button is fixed. I'm going to leave this one open in case we can come up with something for closing / reopening the browser.