Can't play video on google pixel

[jessleenyc]

Describe the bug

To Reproduce

1. Visit https://dev.to/bytesized/byte-sized-episode-1-grace-hopper-3bp9
2. Try to play video
3. See error

Screenshots

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: Google Pixel 3
• OS: Android 10

[fdocr]

Android's WebView implementation has problems reproducing Video from the HTML video tag. There doesn't seem to be a straightforward fix for this at the moment using "stock configuration" options from the WebView itself.

Possible solutions I can think of:

1. Customize our CustomWebViewClient to handle pages that have the HTML video tag and handle the playback in a separate view with a separate native Fragment/Activity. I found this project (older and now unmaintained) that took a stab at this, might be valuable to take inspiration from it
2. Use the AndroidWebViewBridge interface to stop the HTML video tag from attempting to play the video and instead handle an incoming message from JavaScript that will trigger the video playback using native APIs

At the moment option 2. seems like a better solution in my eyes.

In either case it's important to consider we already have ExoPlayer in the project so we could relatively easy handle the video playback using their PlayerView

[maestromac]

@fdoxyz Yeah option 2 sounds good.