android-youtube-player

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# android-youtube-player

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android-youtube-player is a stable and customizable open source YouTube player for Android. It provides a simple View that can be easily integrated in every Activity/Fragment.

The library is a wrapper around the [IFrame Player API](https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference), which runs inside of a WebView. Therefore there are [no issues with YouTube Terms of Service](#does-this-library-breaks-youtube-terms-of-service).

This library also provides a [Chromecast YouTube player](#chromecast-extension-library), that you can use to cast YouTube videos from your app to a Chromecast device.

## Why does this library exist?
The library provided by Google is the [YouTube Android Player API](https://developers.google.com/youtube/android/player/).
This library has been [historically not reliable]((https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4395)) and is now deprecated by Google.

Google now recommends using the IFrame Player API inside a WebView, which is exactly what this library does, while also providing a native Java/Kotlin interface to interact with the web player.

A lengthier explanation of why this library was created can be found in [this Medium post](https://medium.com/@soffritti.pierfrancesco/how-to-play-youtube-videos-in-your-android-app-c40427215230).

## Who is using this library
Now that **the official API from Google is deprecated**, `android-youtube-player` is the main YouTube player library for Android.

**Used by over 5 thousands apps**, with some big names like [Tumblr](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tumblr), [Flipkart](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipkart.android), [McDonald's](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcdo.mcdonalds), [InShot Video Editor](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camerasideas.instashot), [Genius](https://play.google.co