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Course videos, live streams, podcasts and radio: how to hand media to the native player and keep audio running in the background. Pick your builder for the exact prompt.
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Link to startnativevideo://videostreamurl= followed by a direct stream URL and WebViewGold opens the system video player on iOS and Android. Users can shrink the video into a floating window and keep browsing the app, or even switch to another app.
On iPhone and iPad the native player brings AirPlay, fullscreen and the standard playback controls users already know. No custom player library to maintain in the web app.
For podcasts, radio streams, meditations and audio lessons, the HTML background audio setup keeps the web app's audio playing when the iPhone is locked or another app is in front. It is a setting in the Xcode project, shown step by step in the iOS documentation video.
The native player needs an .mp4 file or an HLS .m3u8 stream, not the URL of a page that embeds a video. Streaming hosts such as Mux, Cloudflare Stream or Bunny Stream give you HLS URLs; YouTube and Vimeo pages stay normal embeds.
About 30 minutes, most of it testing on real phones.
Use an .mp4 file from your storage or an HLS .m3u8 playlist from your video host. Long lessons stream better as HLS, because the player adapts the quality to the connection.
The native player loads the stream itself and may not see the login session of the web view. For paid lessons, create a short-lived signed URL on the server after checking access, and pass that.
Set a custom user agent that contains a token such as WebViewGold (useragent_iphone and useragent_ipad in Config.swift, USER_AGENT in Config.java). When it is present, the Play button navigates to startnativevideo://videostreamurl= plus the stream URL; in a browser, the normal <video> element plays.
Only for apps whose audio should keep playing with the screen locked. Follow the HTML background audio video in the iOS docs, then test with the phone locked and with another app in front.
Start a video, open Picture-in-Picture, browse to another page, lock the phone, rotate to landscape, and try a slow mobile connection. Do it on an iPhone and on an Android phone.
Not through startnativevideo://, which needs a direct .mp4 file or HLS .m3u8 stream. YouTube and Vimeo embeds usually keep working as normal iframes inside the app, with their own player and fullscreen button.
Yes. Both the iOS and the Android documentation describe startnativevideo:// with Picture-in-Picture: the video keeps playing in a floating window while the user browses the app or another app.
On iOS, yes, once HTML background audio is enabled in the Xcode project as shown in the iOS docs. On Android, the WebViewGold docs do not describe a background audio mode, so test your player on a device before you promise it.
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