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Ben Morse
6,068 PointsPlay YouTube videos through your app
hello everyone!
I'm am developing a phone app for my church and one of the features I want it to have is the ability for user's to watch past seminars. They are already posted on there YouTube channel.
What do i need to do to have the two communicate, so that when user clicks on "watch video" it will access and load it from YouTube?
1 Answer
Ben Deitch
Treehouse TeacherDoes it have to be embedded into the app? A YouTube link should suffice to open it in the YouTube app (or at least open the chooser dialog).
If you'd rather it be embedded, it looks like you'll need to get familiar with the YouTube Android Player API. I've never used it before, but it doesn't look too complicated. If I we're trying to get this working I'd probably start with this tutorial, and then depending on how well that works I'd check out the API documentation and go from there.
Ben Morse
6,068 PointsBen Morse
6,068 Pointsok, awesome. Thanks for the responds. I guess that would work out for just a button that says "watch message" and then it would send them to the youtube using its own app. How would I do that?
Ben Deitch
Treehouse TeacherBen Deitch
Treehouse TeacherJust having a YouTube link should suffice. It should show the "Complete action using" dialog and the user should be able to pick how to open it.