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If you attempt to join a zoom call from anything but Chrome, you will get a prompt telling that "You need to be on Android 10 and Chrome 91 or higher".
Works fine on safari + ios27 beta.
Works perfectly fine with firefox snap ubuntu 152.0.4. I can select mic from one web cam and image from another. Is there somewhere a technical description of how they have used API to implement this ? Open sources ?
Librewolf on Ubuntu working for me.
It kicked me out on Firefox 152 over Android 13, but only until I enabled desktop mode. Actual desktop Firefox seems to work too. And others say Safari works even on iOS.

So they're effectively just blocking non-Chrome Android. Not sure if that's all they intended to block or simply all they're succeeding at blocking.

So similar to the trend that has been going on for a long while.

"You need MS-Windows to access the portal and reach your health dept pages"

"You need Android and a contract with Google to run the "app" and obtain certification from the State"

"You need a bank card in order to obtain the service"

...

No, Never. No, Never. No, Never. ...

it's about time... I've been avoiding this tech for years because it was sniffing on my Mic
You didn't try changing the user agent? That usually defeats whatever monopolistic mechanisms they put in place.
I'm surprised to hear they're still going - haven't heard anyone mention Zoom in a couple of years now.
Worked for me - I was able to join the test meeting from Firefox 152 on Fedora 44 and on Windows 11.