YouTube Player API for Android opens for all, brings seamless app integration (video)

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Adding a little dash of [YouTube](http://www.engadget.com/tag/youtube/) magic to your Android apps should be simple affair right? Well, historically, not entirely. That's all set to change though, now that the [long-promised](http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/youtube-android-app-caching-channels-remote/) Android [YouTube Player API](http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/06/google-slips-out-youtube-android-player-api/) has finally been set loose in the wild. This means developers can access some new tools that should bring the ubiquitous video service snuggly inside any app that wants to use it. This includes high-quality playback for devices running Android 2.2 and above, easier integration there-of due to a change in how to call the videos, full screen and orientation mode support, closed captions display, support for YouTube ads and the ability to program most elements of the playback experience natively within your app. The tools have already been put to use by some partners who got early access, including one of our favourite social feed-readers [Flipboard](http://www.engadget.com/tag/flipboard/). Full details and tools at the source, or slide past the break for Google developers video showing it in action.

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**Via:** [Android Central](http://www.androidcentral.com/adding-great-video-experience-android-apps-just-got-easier-new-youtube-android-player-api)

**Source:** [YouTube API blog](http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/12/no-webview-required-with-native-youtube.html)

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