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copied!<p>Probably the easiest and most practical way is to check the user agent to see if you're on Android.</p> <pre><code>if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Android') >=0) { document.getElementById('myvideo').controls = true; } </code></pre> <p>In general, user agent sniffing is "frowned upon". It's <em>usually</em> best to use feature detection, since some far future version of the Android browser <strong>might</strong> support autoplay. But mobile browsers aren't usually very good at telling you when they don't support the video/audio spec.</p> <p>Another way to do it is to check for events. In FF/Chrome/IE9+, the event will fire a series of events, including: <code>loadstart</code>, <code>progress</code>, <code>durationchange</code>, etc... up to <code>play</code> and <code>playing</code>. In the Android browser (at least, the old-ish version that I have), the video will instead fire a <code>stalled</code> event. You could look for <code>stalled</code> and then enable the controls. You could remove them again when you get the 'play' event.</p> <pre><code>var video = document.getElementById('myvideo'), started = false; if (video && video.addEventListener) { //in case of IE < 9 video.addEventListener('stalled', function() { if (!started) video.controls = true; }, false); video.addEventListener('play', function() { started = true; video.controls = false; }, false); } </code></pre> <p>But there are other reasons why you might see that event, like a slow internet connection. So you'll still risk seeing the controls for a bit in a desktop browser until the video starts. </p> <p>You don't need to worry about iOS. It won't autoplay, even if you want it to.</p>

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