Playing HTML5 Audio in Android Browser

HTML5 audio tag does not work in Android - Chrome when created in JS?

Looks like this is intended feature that spans more then just the Chrome browser. User interaction is required to get media elements to play.

Blink and WebKit have a setting for requiring a “user gesture” to play or pause an audio or video element, which is enabled in Opera for Android, Chrome for Android, the default Android browser, Safari for iOS and probably other browsers. This makes some sense, since mobile devices are used in public and in bed, where unsolicited sound from random Web sites could be a nuisance. Also, autoplaying video ads would waste bandwidth. Block Quote from 'blog.foolip.org'

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Current Status

Developers have requested the deletion of 'mediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture' which was reviewed and denied (for now). "We're going to gather some data about how users react to autoplaying videos in order to decide whether to keep this restriction."

Upon further inspection i found this...

"I misunderstood the outcome of the discussion (removing mediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture) surrounding this topic. We need to keep this code in order to not break google.com while gathering data about this feature."

Google.com relies on the feature being disabled, otherwise it breaks (they didn't say what it breaks).

Original Bug Report

HTML5 audio not playing on Mobile Chrome (Android)

Android and iPhone touch events

touchstart ↔ mousedown
touchend ↔ mouseup
touchmove ↔
mousemove
touchcancel

document.getElementById('yourAudio').addEventListener("mouseup", tapOrClick, false);
document.getElementById('yourAudio').addEventListener("touchend", tapOrClick, false);

function tapOrClick(e) {
    var mp3 = e.target;
        mp3.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('audio')[0].play();
}

HTML5 audio tag is not working in Android

HTML5 Audio support is not consistent across different devices/OSes due to codec licensing issues and OS implementation/support. If you are just playing MP3 files, you can reliably handle those by using PhoneGap's Media class, which will provide consistent and reliable audio programming on all platforms.

If you want the ability to preload audio and have more advanced scenarios like polyphony or layering (like video game effects), you can use the LowLatencyAudio PhoneGap native plugin.

HTML5 Audio not playing on Chrome for Android

OK, I solved it myself. The .htaccess password protection, that I created, prevented the audio from playing on Chrome for Android. Although I logged into the web page and the site displayed correctly, audio could not be loaded. Safari on iOS had the same problem. Interestingly though, Firefox on Android worked just fine.

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