Atmospheric Video in Low Power Mode

[cyokum]

Videos will not play in low power mode.

[nhall]

Support for the battery API is lacking so we'll have to try and figure out an alternative.

[jemaleddin]

I was trying to figure out how to detect this situation which led to this StackOverflow post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50400902/detect-if-ios11-device-is-in-low-power-mode-to-prevent-bad-ux-on-normally-correc

Which suggests reading this:

https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

Where it seems like if we just added "autoplay" to the video tag created by the background plugin that it would work? I was playing around on the W3 demo page on my phone with low power mode on after editing the code to include playsinline and autoplay and remove controls from the video tag and it seemed to work?

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_video_autoplay

[nhall]

@mimoduo, do you want to try doing this on Concordia and see if that works? It looks like you could set autoplay the same place playsinline is added:

https://github.com/Formstone/Formstone/blob/master/src/js/background.js#L338

[nhall]

@mimoduo: did anything ever come out of that project?

[mimoduo]

Yes, don't do atmospheric video on mobile.

[nhall]

@mimoduo: No need for a smart response. Following up on something you didn't respond to for eight months.