HTML5 Video autoplay on Mobile Browser

Question

I am using the following HTML5 and JQuery code to play a playlist of videos whose URLs are in an array URLArray[].

function NextFrag(){

 if (index < URLArray.length)
 {
   $("#VideoContainer").html('<video  id="video1" controls autoplay width="95%"> "<source src= "'+ URLArray[index]+ '" type="video/mp4"></source> </video>' );
   index++;
   $("#video1").bind( "ended", NextFrag);
 }
}

As we know that the autoplay feature of HTML5 is disabled in all mobile phones, as a result I have to play manually each video clip on mobile phone. which is definitely what I do not want.

I really want to know the alternative to this. I am really interested in code segment that I can include to make like autoplay without involving user to interact.

Is it possible to convert this to an android app to work. I am really in need to make it work like a play list, and I have no concern about how, I just need this functionality.

Please help.

Answer 1

Since the release of iOS 10 Apple has allowed muted video autoplay: https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

Chrome 53 on Android also allowing muted video autoplay: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/07/autoplay