Compatibility fix - Fixing autoplay in Cordova Android apps

[Techn1c4l]

I've been dealing with this problem for a very long time.

The issue is the video stream does not start automatically when being implemented in a Cordova Android app. Eventually I've ran out of solutions and just resorted to simulating a screen tap which indeed helped.

But today I've found the true reason of this behavior.

Setting muted property of an HTMLVideoElement will not count as muted video for an Android WebView.

This does not work:

videoElement.muted = true;

You have to add the muted=true attribute.

This is the proper way:

videoElement.setAttribute('muted', true);

Basically as I understand, the Android WebView will ignore autoplay attribute if it doesn't detect a muted attribute.

Please implement this fix. There is a lot of frustrated people out there who were not able to solve this for years. This issue seems to be unique for Android WebView.

[mebjas]

Thanks for the bug and suggestion, merged to master. Will be published soon!