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Google I/O 2012 - New YouTube Android Player Tools

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Ross McIlroy and Anton Hansson introduce the native YouTube Android Player API for high-quality video playback without requiring a WebView.

Ross McIlroy, Anton Hansson If you are building Android smartphone, tablet or Google TV applications and want to incorporate high-quality YouTube video playback in your product this session will rock your world. For all I/O 2012 sessions, go to developers.google.com/io/. You can find the slide deck for this presentation here: yt-android-api.appspot.com/#2. If you would like to try the library, you can find more information here: apiblog.youtube.com/2012/12/no-webview-required-with-native-….

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What people say. Recommended as an introduction to the native YouTube Android Player API.

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On “Youtube live streams in Android Webview are jittery”

…the YouTube API. Otherwise you can use the GData API to get the RSTP link to the video for use in a VideoView. Finally you can use an Intent to launch the YouTube app. In the future there is a new API for Android for YouTube. But it has not been released. Theme again neither has Fragment support for Google Maps that was announced in Dec 2011. - link to this video Pros/Cons below (Examples are all making the WebView fill 100% of screen height and width) WebView - IFrame - Limited configuration available. Runs in the WebView and works on nearly all platforms. Don'……
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