Android "no app can perform this action" through URL but works fine on phone
I'm having a frustrating day.
The video links on this test page I'm doing for a friend of mine work in Desktop Firefox/Chrome and iOS, but not IE 11 or (more importantly) Android:
http://davelozinski.com/testvideos
Issue #1 and most important:
In the default Samsung Android "Internet" browser, it comes up with "No app can perform this action".
However!
If I load the video directly onto the phone (in this case, a Galaxy S4 mini), the video plays perfectly when I tap it.
This is affecting videos we'll have to be producing as we need them to play using the default Android browser.
I have found no way to associate the browser to the inbuilt "gallery" application to play the video.
Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?
Issue #2:
In IE11, a popup dialog comes up asking if we want to "open or save" the video file. Either way, it downloads it directly and then we have to double-click to open instead of being able to view it in the browser itself. How do we get around this so it'll play directly in the browser too?
Thank you!
Answer
I finally figured it out!
Under "Application Manager | All" there was an item called "Downloads" with a bright green down pointing arrow as an icon.
This was turned off.
When I turned this one and clicked on a video link, my phone started prompting me now whether I wanted to download the video, or use a thing called "Android System" to handle it.
Choosing the latter my phone now plays videos.