Player no longer fires "tap" event on Android

[shawnbuso]

I just upgraded my IMA plugin to vjs 5.3, and I've noticed that the player no longer fires the tap event on Android. We're using that to detect the user tapping the player to initialize ad requests here. Our SDK requires a user action to initialize, so we need to be able to respond to that tap. Reverting to 4.12 (the most recent version we supported before 5.3) brings back the tap event. We are still seeing the click event on desktop, just no tap on mobile.

[nonth]

Hi @shawnbuso I've using videojs 5.5 with videojs-ima and got the same issue on both iOS and Android. Any update on this issue ?

[gkatsev]

I've just tested it locally and cannot reproduce with a newer version of videojs. Can you give more background on what browser is used exactly? Preferably with a specific reduced test case where it is happening?

[nonth]

Hi @gkatsev Which version of videojs you're using ?

Detail about browser

• Android: Google Chrome 47.0.2526.83 on Android 5.1.1
• iOS: both Safari and Google Chrome on iOS 9.2.1

Example http://nonth.net/videojs-ima/ It's work fine on desktop browser you'll see pre-roll ads at beginning of the video but if you open the url from mobile device it doesn't show pre-roll ads.

Code from ads.js line 48, on mobile device we detect the 'tap' event on player to initialize the ad container and request ads.

// Initialize the ad container when the video player is clicked, but only the
// first time it's clicked.
var startEvent = 'click';
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i) ||
    navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i) ||
    navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)) {
  startEvent = 'tap';
}

player.one(startEvent, function() {
    player.ima.initializeAdDisplayContainer();
    player.ima.requestAds();
    player.play();
});

[kieste]

Same problem here on iPad using Video JS 5.8.3

[shawnbuso]

Any update on a fix or workaround here? A lot of our users are blocked on this.

[ntamblyn]

i have swapped out tap for

startEvent = 'touchstart';

Seems to work for me.