How to play youtube video in Android Application

In Android  |  Last Updated on Sun, 26 Jun 2016

Hi , In this  tutorial I am going to explain  How to play  youtube  video in any Android application. We are  going to use  youtube  API to play  youtube video within a Android application. Youtube API  required minimum  Android version 4.2 .We can see lots of  android apps playing  youtube video inside the App to tell the app intro . This app will have a single screen with a video playing in it. This article covers basics of YouTube Android API. If you want to build a fully  fledged  youtube  app, please go through  Youtube Android Player API docs provided by  Google.

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Prerequisites:

• JDK 7.0 or Above
• Android Studio 2.0

 

Steps to follow:

Step 1: Create a New Android Studio project name YoutubePlayer.

Step 2: Select minimum API level 17 so  that it can run Maximum of  the Android device  available in playstore.

Step 3: Give your layout xml name is activity_main And click finish .

Step 4:  Login to API console

Step 5:  Create a Project -> Go to Services -> Turn on the switch for Google YouTube Data API v3

Step 6:  Goto API Access -> Create new Android Key-> In popup enter one SHA1 certificate fingerprint and package name (separated by a semicolon) per line.

Step 7:  To get SHA1 certificate of your app in Android studio open Terminal enter the following  command keytool -list -v –keystore “path to key” . Then  enter the password of your keystore . Scroll above to get SHA1  fingerprint   key .

Step 8: From here copy SHA1 certificate and also copy package name of your Apps from Android Studio.

Step 9: Now enter these values in the API Console popup in the desired format, you key will be generated.

Step 10: Now Download Android YouTube Player API bundle from here. Unzip this file and follow the steps below to include it in your app:

1. Copy the jar file from libs folder to the the libs folder of your project.
2. Right click on your project, File -> Project Structure -> app -> dependencies ->  add File dependencies
3.  Select YouTubeAndroidPlayerAPI.jar ->Ok

 
Step 11 : in manifest file add the  internet permission
 

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>

 
Step 12: Inside the  activity_main.xml write the following code
 

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="match_parent"
 android:id ="@+id/play"
 tools:context="com.example.prosen.youtubeplayer.MainActivity">
 
<TextView
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:text="Hello World!"
 android:id="@+id/textView" />
 
<Button
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:text="Play"
 android:id="@+id/button1"
 android:layout_centerVertical="true"
 android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
 
<com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubePlayerView
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:id="@+id/view1"
 android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
 android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
 android:layout_above="@+id/button1"
 android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
 android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
 android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />

</RelativeLayout>

 

 Step 13 : Inside MainActivity.java  write the following code
 

 import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
 import android.os.Bundle;
 import android.view.View;
 import android.widget.Button;
 
 import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubeBaseActivity;
 import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubeInitializationResult;
 import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubePlayer;
 import com.google.android.youtube.player.YouTubePlayerView;
 
 public class MainActivity extends YouTubeBaseActivity{
 
 Button button;
 private YouTubePlayerView view;
 private YouTubePlayer.OnInitializedListener listener;
 
 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
 super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

 view = (YouTubePlayerView)findViewById(R.id.view1)

 listener = new YouTubePlayer.OnInitializedListener() {
 @Override
 public void onInitializationSuccess(YouTubePlayer.Provider provider, YouTubePlayer  youTubePlayer, boolean b) {
 
 youTubePlayer.loadVideo("BvpqMiVNQ7s");
 
  }
 
 @Override
 public void onInitializationFailure(YouTubePlayer.Provider provider,  YouTubeInitializationResult youTubeInitializationResult) {
 button =(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
 button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
 @Override
 public void onClick(View v) {
 view.initialize("AIzaSyAi_AF4xeTeo8Q_S0-3j0PFZWWLsycfzMs",listener);
 }
 });
 }
 };
 }
}

Now compile and test the Application in real device.