Playing html5 audio in android browser

The latest Android browser in FroYo does not yet support the HTML5 audio element. This is not a bug, rather a feature that has yet to be implemented. It may come in Gingerbread.

Update: The Gingerbread browser has the audio element.


Here is link to Google Android bug, which filed for lack of support of AUDIO tag in Android. Please, vote on it.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10546

BTW, there is work around, which let you play natively MP3 in Android 1.6 .. 2.2, like that:

<video src="test.mp3" onclick="this.play();"></video>

I cannot figure this out either. BUT, this test page created by Apple plays HTML5 audio on the Android: http://www.apple.com/html5/showcase/audio

how did apple do it?