Multimedia in Pdf for Esign

When sending a pdf file with multimedia for eSigning the sound tool icon is disturbed/destroyed when signing is completed.
It has been designed to be floating but small. As soon as the sound icon is clicked the song is playing well but the start/stop tool 'spills' out covering the entire screen.
regards

In terms of Adobe software, the short answer is "no" and the long answer is "wait and see but don't get your hopes up".
The paid-for third party Android app "ezPDF Reader Multimedia" has some support playback of video and sound annotations, but it doesn't cope with Flash or scripting so the experience in a complex interactive PDF is variable to say the least.
In terms of Flash, there will never be integration into the mobile versions of Reader as the runtime isn't distributed to mobile platforms anymore. About half of the JavaScript API calls are technically possible on Android but JS isn't part of the app yet (we have very limited JS API support on iOS right now, but only for forms-related function calls), Direct playback of embedded RMA media streams (MP3 and H.264) is also technically possible on both platforms (as ezPDF demonstrates), but Adobe have chosen not to make it a priority.

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