Auto playing vimeo videos in Android webview

Question

I\'ve managed to get a vimeo video to load and play, using the following. However the autoplay=1 as indicated in the vimeo oembed docs doesn\'t auto play on load. Anyone fou

Answer 1

We've come across the same issue and it seems that Android WebView's (as well as those on iOS) are not programmed to allow auto-start of videos since it's possible that it would eat into someones data plan. You have to actually tap on it unless you want to take Google's WebView as a starting point and roll your own. It's not as easy as it sounds, we tried!