Android YouTube app Play Video Intent

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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 this  I need to know the Intent that the YouTube native app puts out in order to play the YouTube app  I could do this easially if I had the YouTube program on my emulator  so my 1st question is  1  Can I download the YouTube app for my emulator  or    2  What is the intent used when the user selects a video for playback

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Youtube now has a player api  You should try that   https   developers google com youtube android player

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Try this   WebView webview   new WebView this     String htmlString          lt html gt   lt body gt   lt embed src   youtube link    type application x-shockwave-flash width   widthOfDevice   height   heightOfDevice   gt   lt  embed gt   lt  body gt   lt  html gt     webview loadData htmlString   text html    UTF-8

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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

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Replying to old question  just to inform you guys that package have changed  heres the update  Intent videoClient   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   videoClient setData  VALID YOUTUBE LINK WITH HTTP    videoClient setClassName  com google android youtube    com google android youtube WatchActivity    startActivity videoClient     This works very well  but when you call normal Intent with ACTION VIEW with valid youtube URL user gets the Activity selector anyways

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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

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Try this   public class abc extends Activity implements OnPreparedListener         Called when the activity is first created         Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState          super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout main       startActivity new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  http   www youtube com watch v cxLG2wtE7TM                       Override       public void onPrepared MediaPlayer mp               TODO Auto-generated method stub

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This will work on a device but not the emulator per Lemmy s answer   startActivity new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  http   www youtube com watch v cxLG2wtE7TM

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Intent videoClient   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   videoClient setData Uri parse  http   m youtube com watch v   videoId    startActivityForResult videoClient  1234     Where videoId is the video id of the youtube video that has to be played  This code works fine on Motorola Milestone   But basically what we can do is to check for what activity is loaded when you start the Youtube app and accordingly substitute for the packageName and the className

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The Youtube  and Market application  are only supposed to be used with special ROMs  which Google released for the G1 and the G2  So you can t run them in an OpenSource-ROM  like the one used in the Emulator  unfortunately  Well  maybe you can  but not in an officially supported way

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You can use the Youtube Android player API to play the video if Youtube app is installed  otherwise just prompt the user to choose from the available web browsers   if YouTubeIntents canResolvePlayVideoIntent mContext                        mContext startActivity YouTubeIntents createPlayVideoIntent mContext  mVideoId     else       Intent webIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW              Uri parse  http   www youtube com watch v     mVideoId         mContext startActivity webIntent

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Intent to open a YouTube Video         param pm               The   link PackageManager       param url               The URL or YouTube video ID      return the intent to open the YouTube app or Web Browser to play the video     public static Intent newYouTubeIntent PackageManager pm  String url        Intent intent      if  url length      11               youtube video id         intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  vnd youtube       url          else              url to video         intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse url              try           if  pm getPackageInfo  com google android youtube   0     null                intent setPackage  com google android youtube                    catch  NameNotFoundException e              return intent

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This function work fine for me   just pass url string in function   void watch video String url        Intent yt play   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse url       Intent chooser   Intent createChooser yt play    Open With         if  yt play  resolveActivity getPackageManager       null                        startActivity chooser

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Found it     03-18 12 40 02 842  INFO ActivityManager 68   Starting activity  Intent   action android intent action VIEW data  URL TO A FLV FILE OF THE VIDEO  type video   comp  com google android youtube com google android youtube YouTubePlayer   has extras

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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

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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

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EDIT  The below implementation proved to have problems on at least some HTC devices  they crashed   For that reason I don t use setclassname and stick with the action chooser menu  I strongly discourage using my old implementation   Following is the old implementation   Intent intent   new Intent android content Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse youtubelink    if Utility isAppInstalled  com google android youtube   getActivity           intent setClassName  com google android youtube    com google android youtube WatchActivity      startActivity intent     Where Utility is my own personal utility class with following methode   public static boolean isAppInstalled String uri  Context context        PackageManager pm   context getPackageManager        boolean installed   false      try           pm getPackageInfo uri  PackageManager GET ACTIVITIES           installed   true        catch  PackageManager NameNotFoundException e            installed   false            return installed      First I check if youtube is installed  if it is installed  I tell android which package I prefer to open my intent

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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

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Here s how I solved this issue   Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  vnd youtube       video id    startActivity intent     Now that I ve done some more research  it looks like I only needed  vnd youtube VIDEO ID  instead of two slashes after the colon      vs           http   it-ride blogspot com 2010 04 android-youtube-intent html  I tried most of the suggestions here and they didn t really work very well with all of the supposed  direct  methods raising exceptions   I would assume that  with my method  if the YouTube app is NOT installed  the OS has a default fallback position of something other than crashing the app   The app is theoretically only going on devices with the YouTube app on them anyway  so this should be a non-issue

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