I have a html file on my Samsung android tablet that has a link like this:
<a href="./video/0001_a1.mp4" target="_blank">Click to play local 0001_a1.mp4</a> When I click it I wanted it to open the video file that is in the sub directory /video beneath but only the link background changes like the link is being pressed but no video plays. If I remove the video file and press the link I get an error that it can't find the file. So I know that something is trying to happen. I have also tried <a href="video/0001_a1.mp4" target="_blank">Click to play local 0001_a1.mp4</a> With the same results. Both work fine when on a Windows PC. How can I load local videos using an html link on Android? A guy on Stack Overflow <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39399172/loading-an-mp4-video-from-an-html-link-on-android> suggested... In mobile browsers you must call window.open inside onClick instead of set href attribute: <a href="#" onclick="window.open('./video/0001_a1.mp4','_blank')"> Click to play local 0001_a1.mp4 </a> But that only results in refreshing the same page to the top of the page... not showing the video in a new window. Surely this is not a new thing that I am trying to do. Any suggestions?? My first thought was to bypass the built in HTMLViewer and install the Chrome browser to open the file. But I could not find a way to change settings so html files get opened by Chrome instead of HTMLViewer. Thanks! Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/a6e6d134-4142-4b8b-afa9-dfc9fead5e2f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
