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GoodBarber
Jan 19

Embedded Vimeo code on Android

Vimeo is not natively supported by GB system. Android devices will play the Vimeo videos in a new window. I've been told that It is possible to disabled this function, but it may prevent it from going full screen. So please support native embedded code on Android devices. Thank you in advance Jannik
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changed status toCompleted·Jun 10, 2026
Jun 10, 2026

Hi Jannik, and thanks everyone for the feedback! A bit of context first, since this came up as a "bug": the previous behavior was actually intentional. On older Android versions, playing iframe videos in-app was unreliable (no sound or no image depending on the OS, the manufacturer, the WebView version…), so we deliberately opened them in the browser to make sure they played consistently for everyone. Things have improved a lot since Android 10, so we've now changed the default: embedded iframe videos — including Vimeo — play directly in-app on Android instead of opening in a new window. And to your specific concern, fullscreen still works — that was exactly the trade-off we wanted to avoid, and we did. This is enabled by default on Android 10 and above. Just update your app to the latest version and you should be all set!

Jul 7, 2023

Unfortunately, i think GoodBarber to busy building fancy icons rather than makes things work as it should be. There are 20 strings of code that could fix it. But the issue still stands for almost a year.

Mar 3, 2023

Absolutely agree! As for me - it is not even a new feature. It is the bug that should be fixed! Because this issue affects all iframe video embeds and making Android app with video meaningless

Mar 7, 2023

Daria: you’re right- it’s a bug.