Custom Controls on Mobile & Touch Devices

[heff]

At the moment video.js defaults to using the native controls on mobile devices, because the custom controls require some additional work to support touch events.
#672 made progress towards this by adding support for touch/tap events, specifically for toggling controls visibility. The @brightcove team has also made progress on this previously and there may be additional updates we can pull from there.

A few things remain to address:

• Slider Support (seeking/volume)
• Button size for touch (may simply be increasing the font size)
• Test across a wide range of mobile devices

Related Issues: #690

[lhwparis]

Hi heff, is there a time schedule for get this custom controls done on mobile? this ticket is a year old now and importance of full mobile support is increasing :)

[mmcc]

There have been quite a few updates to improve mobile support, we've just done a terrible job keeping this issue up to date on what we've done :) There's still work to do, but things are in a much better place than when this ticket was initially opened.

[gkatsev]

@lhwparis please try it out, set nativeControlForTouch: false option for players and report back any issues.

[heff]

We switched to using custom controls on touch devices by default a few months ago, so closing this. Sorry for not updating this!