Android YouTube app Play Video Intent

Question

I have created a app where you can download YouTube videos for android. Now, I want it so that if you play a video in the YouTube native app you can download it too. To do t

Answer 1

This will work if youtube app installed. If not, a chooser will show up to select other application:

Uri uri = Uri.parse( "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo" );
uri = Uri.parse( "vnd.youtube:" + uri.getQueryParameter( "v" ) );
startActivity( new Intent( Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri ) );

Answer 2

And how about this:

public static void watchYoutubeVideo(Context context, String id){
    Intent appIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("vnd.youtube:" + id));
    Intent webIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
                Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + id));
    try {
        context.startActivity(appIntent);
    } catch (ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
        context.startActivity(webIntent);
    }
} 

Note: Beware when you are using this method, YouTube may suspend your channel due to spam, this happened two times with me

Answer 3

Use my code .. I am able to play youtube video using this code ... you just need to provide youtube video id in the "videoId" variable ....

String videoId = "Fee5vbFLYM4";
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("vnd.youtube:"+videoId)); 
intent.putExtra("VIDEO_ID", videoId); 
startActivity(intent); 

Answer 4

The safest way to run videos on a different app is by first trying to resolve the package, in other words, check that the app is installed on the device. So if you want to run a video on youtube you'd do something like this:

public void playVideo(String key){

    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("vnd.youtube:" + key));

    // Check if the youtube app exists on the device
    if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) == null) {
        // If the youtube app doesn't exist, then use the browser
        intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
                Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + key));
    }

    startActivity(intent);
}

Answer 5

You can also just grab the WebViewClient

wvClient = new WebViewClient() {
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
  if (url.startsWith("youtube:")) {
    String youtubeUrl = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v="
    + url.Replace("youtube:", "");
  startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(youtubeUrl)));
}
return false;
}

Worked fine in my app.

Answer 6

Youtube now has a player api, You should try that.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/android/player/