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Video on Android


  • Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
    • No Support, despite being the most popular version of Android
  • Android 3.0 (Honeycomb)
    • Streams cause tablet devices to crash
  • Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
    • VOD streams do not seek
    • Aspect ratios are not detected and cause image deformation
    • Fullscreen causes videos to restart from the beginning
  • Android 4.1+ (Jelly Bean)
    • Aspect ratio issue is fixed, but seek is still unavailable
    • Chrome does not understand HLS leading to broken mimetype detection
    • Taking video fullscreen causes devices to throw an error and stop.

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