YouTube Player API for Android released; watch videos within your apps itself

By Nimish Sawant | Updated on 24-Dec-2012

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You no longer have to leave your app which has a YouTube clip embedded in it

YouTube Player API for Android released; watch videos within your apps itself

24-Dec-2012

YouTube announced its native YouTube Player API for Android in a blog post allowing developers to integrate YouTube clips within their apps itself. What this essentially means is that you will not have leave the app if it has a YouTube video embedded in it, to view the video. This API was announced at the Google I/O 2012 but has been made available to developers since the last couple of days.

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This API supports video playback from within the apps on devices with Android 2.2 (FroYo) and newer versions; you can view the video from the app itself, no webview required; it suppors full-screen and orientation change support and it supports YouTube ads.

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YouTube has been working with some partners including Flipboard, Buzzfeed, SoundTracking, 9×9.tv and Fitness Flow.

To know in details about how the API works, check out this YouTube Developers Live video:

Source: YouTube API Blog Via: Devworx