Google I/O 2012 - New YouTube Android Player Tools

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Recommends Jashan Jain · 2013-05 · Stack Overflow · on “YouTube Player in Android (YouTubeData API v3)”

I am trying to use YouTubeData API in my android app. (My app need to show the youtube vedio in a part of the screen, then below other widgets). I tried to follow the Google IO 2012 training session [this video] on New Youtube Android Player Tools but I failed the following errors occured. YouTube.initialize(this, DeveloperKey) The 'YouTube" class is not available in my app, I have already added the library 'YouTubeAndroidPlayerApi.jar' to my lib folder. Does the YouTube class is depricted? I searched it in the google api reference [LINK] but I cant find any trace of it. My bad luck is when I tried to run the sample program provided by the google YouTubeAndroidApiDemo it return Class not found ex

Cites OriolJ · 2012-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Android Youtube API Available?”

At the google IO of this year (2012) they announced the youtube api for Android apps, it isn't available yet, but they say that is going to be available soon, you can see the video here: [this video] EDIT: Now It's available: [LINK]

Cites JonWillis · 2012-09 · Stack Overflow · on “Youtube live streams in Android Webview are jittery”

I've struggled with YouTube in general, trying to get it to work on android. Why certain videos lag is beyond me, but it might be different quality settings and limited bandwidth thus its buffering. Hopefully one of the options below might help if it's not a buffering issue. Currently, with WebView you use either use an IFrame or 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. - [this video] Pros/Cons bel

Cites kittka · 2012-09 · Stack Overflow · on “YouTubePlayerAPI Schedule for Distribution?”

Got really excited when I discovered this Google IO video [this video] recently. Adding YouTube features to an app easily is very attractive compared to current options (intent, iframe embed) I was surprised that despite several months since the annoucement, there is virtually nothing out there beyond this video. The session itself didn't even cover the schedule for release. Does anyone know where to get a jar, beta or otherwise, to play with? Does anyone know a schedule for when this might become widely distributed? I'm hoping someone from the YouTube API Blog and YouTube API Team can address.

Cites Greg Schechter · 2012-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Native (non-webview) streaming from YouTube?”

Any scraping would violate YouTube's TOS. There are no undocumented APIs available either. For iOS the best provide option is to use the [LINK] , but that will be within a webview. For Android, YouTube is building a library to do playback without a webview. Here's a video of the announcement [this video] . It's not launched yet, but I know they've been working very hard on it and it should be available soon.

Cites Bhavesh Patadiya · 2012-12 · Stack Overflow · on “youtube api for java/android, how to get started?”

At the google IO of this year (2012) they announced the youtube api for Android apps, it isn't available yet, but it is going to be available soon, see the video here [this video] :

Cites Kumar · 2012-12 · Stack Overflow · on “Android YoutubePlayer API”

[this video] Till now it is not released, me too waiting for Youtubeplayer API... This is the alternative solution for android player - [LINK] If any other than this.. let me know