I am about to start an android app which includes categorizing different videos and streaming it from device, this app needs a feature as 'offline viewing' which enables the user to download the video and store it in the device for offline viewing(user cannot copy the videos and move it to somewhere else and watch ),
I was searching and found that so many apps are using this feature
like
pluralsight, Lynda and many more
How can I accomplish this feature in my own android app? are the videos encrypted and stored? Any advises will be so helpful for me as I am stuck at this point.
Thanks
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Problem:
Youtube Music sucks for playing back music you have uploaded for years. The app sucks, and the Android Auto app sucks. I've contacted the YT Music team many times, but they don't seem to listen to music ever so they don't even understand the problem(s).
Solution:
Create my own app to play back my own music that lives in Google/Youtube Music. I'm an Android app developer so might as well fix this my own way.
Are there APIs for Youtube Music? I know there's an unofficial Youtube Music API, but that's phython, it doesn't build at the moment (Feb 2022), and it seems to focus on paid music, not my own uploaded library.
Would Google drive APIs do this? If so, is there documentation on how to use it? I can figure out the OAuth part, but I don't know where to get the data for the parameters in this sample api
Is there a better way for this? I just need to download the music files, and then create a player around them.
Thank you!
I was looking for something similar but the closest I got was ytmusicapi in python. It works for me and I installed it via pip install ytmusicapi. Its source is hosted on https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi there, perhaps, you can see the YTM protocol. Authentication works by simply copying cookies from your browser after authenticating with YTM manually. That worked for me as well.
Another option is Kodi and a plugin they have: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=360827 (but that did not seem to work for me after 3 minutes I spent on it).
If you are serious about it and you can't get YTM protocol via the source of ytmusicapi, then you can perhaps reverse-engineer the protocol using your browser. Firefox's Tools->Browser Tools->Web Developer Tools is your best friend. After you authenticate to YTM, open the "tools", click on "Library" on YTM webpage, then in "tools" tab, go to Network and look for a POST similar to https://music.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/browse?key=... right click on it and Copy->Copy as Curl. You will be able to see what auth-headers it sends and also what's the protocol for showing up your YTM Library.
I'm building an Android app that works similar to Udacity app.
My requirements
All my videos should only be viewed via the app.
I will be using my own video player inside the app, and I want the
option to choose quality of video (Like in YouTube app)
Offline download option
Considering these requirements, how would I want to host the videos?
I'm familiar with the Android app side of things, but the rest I know nothing.
Did 3 hours of googling before posting this question here, and found out udemy is using AWS and Brightcove.
Can anybody explain the procedure of hosting and encoding videos for my requirements.
Firstly, big organizations like Udemy, Coursera and Udacity design and develop their own video encoding tool to show in the application. Udacity, for instance, has two modes - YouTube and their own player which the user can set based on their preference.
You can't develop your own codec or player in a jiffy, it needs a lot of dedication and more work which one person cannot develop in days.
For your query, you can use ExoPlayer, YouTube Embed, Vimeo Player, related kinds of open source or publically available players.
I am developing an IOS/Andriod app where I want my users to be able to upload videos - these videos will later be used by the app. Since I don't want to spend a lot of money on data storage I was thinking of using YouTube as the placeholder of the videos.
Is is scenario supported by YouTube?
Are there any limitations for me to consider regarding this scenario?
Is it OK if my app uses only one YouTube account - which my app users share and use when they upload a video? Or do my app users I have to use a personal YouTube account to upload the videos?
Anything else I should think of which I might be missing here?
Thanks
Thomas
I am going to answer you about android because I know about how you can achieve this in Android apps.
Here's a simple step by step to learn how you can integrate Youtube in your android application. for doing this You will need to download the client libraries written in java. Download the library here
This scenario is supported by Youtube
It will be OK to use only 1 youtube account to upload videos to Youtube. but all users have to share that account
One thing you can consider to make sure not to upload very large files (more than 100MB). although it will upload but it can take much time.
It is possible to upload capture/gallery videos on your own channels, not possible to use like all users data storage.
Yesterday when I was searching for different kinds of apps in Google Play, I found several apps that broadcast live camera feed from the mobile. I made some research like what would be the concept. But could not find many details. Can anyone briefly give some idea? I want to try the same concept in one of my apps.
Ref: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam
Check out this Google code project for android ip camera, it used nanoHttpd server for streaming video in android device
http://code.google.com/p/ipcamera-for-android/
download source and try it
web browser on android device don't show google-map iframe, and instead of it ask to sing in.
Is it possible on android google maps works on the site the same to others platforms
(without asking about google maps aplication on device)
thank You
have found answer for my question:
iOS does not have a browsable file system like a computer, so even if Safari supported file uploads, you would not be able to browse to the file to select it.
This is for security reasons as every iOS app runs in a sandbox and has no access to other apps data.
You can download or write App so as to upload the Photos and Videos..