Android (Samsung S4) HTML5 video pauses

android, android-webview, html, html5-video, javascript

Solution

It appears that if the `AudioService` does not have focus when you close the `Webview`, it is not paused. This causes several issues (another player cannot start playing etc.)

The only solution that worked for me is:

@Override
protected void onPause() {
    super.onPause();
    ((AudioManager)getSystemService(
            Context.AUDIO_SERVICE)).requestAudioFocus(
                    new OnAudioFocusChangeListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onAudioFocusChange(int focusChange) {}
                    }, AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, 
                    AudioManager.AUDIOFOCUS_GAIN_TRANSIENT);
}

This will cause the current player to be paused/killed (not sure which) when going down and solve all of the experienced issues/problems.

Problem

I am using Android Webview to play html5 videos, including Youtube videos (my own tags and Youtube embedded iFrames). I encountered an issue with Samsung Galaxy S4, on the following scenario: - Play a video. - Press 'back' while/after the video is playing (view closes) - Open the view again and press 'play'. - The video starts to play and immediately pauses. From this moment the same will happen for each video that I'll try to play. I tried this on a test environment with two kind of Webviews: "regular" Android Webview and HTML5 webview The only "suspicious" thing I see is an error while pressing the 'back' (Android error): ``` sendUserActionEvent() mView == null ``` Is it a Galaxy S4 issue? An Android issue? Any idea? tnx, Yaniv

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