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Resources for Mobile Development with YouTube
Friday, September 24, 2010
The importance of mobile applications in our day-to-day lives continues to grow. We can now do so many things with our phones that would have been impossible not too long ago. While watching videos on mobile devices has been popular for quite some time, mobile uploads to YouTube grew by 160% last year. Mobile application developers can take advantage of this growth by incorporating different types of functionality. Many interesting YouTube projects combine video capture, uploading, sharing and playback, with application logic executing both on the mobile device and in the cloud. With that in mind, we've compiled this
article
to help developers quickly get up to speed on what is involved in building one, please
let us know
what you think!
Update:
article
translations are now available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Russian and Spanish ! Here are the links :
YouTube 移动应用程序开发参考资料
YouTube 行動應用程式開發資源
携帯端末向け開発リソース YouTube
YouTube를 통한 모바일 개발 도움말
Recursos para desenvolvimento de aplicativos para celular com o YouTube
Ресурсы для разработки мобильных приложений, интегрированных с YouTube
Recursos de desarrollo para móviles con YouTube
Thanks,
-Jarek Wilkiewicz, YouTube API Team
Staging Server Now Defaults to YouTube API Version 2
Monday, September 13, 2010
The YouTube Google Data API currently exists in two flavors: version 1 and version 2. If you’re not explicitly requesting version 2 of the API, then you’re using the default, version 1.
As we add new functionality to the API, it’s invariably added to version 2: features like
partial responses/updates
,
extended access controls
,
captioning support
, and
YouTube Insight statistics
are only available to developers accessing the newer release. We’ve kept version 1 running as-is for a while now, and will continue to do so for months to come, but we’re taking the first step to transition developers off of version 1 of the API by changing the default in our
staging server
environment to version 2.
We expect to default the production environment to version 2 before the end of the year, and we will post again when we have more definite dates. In the meantime, if you are still using version 1 of the API, please prepare for the change by taking one of the following steps:
Modify a test version of your code to access
stage.gdata.youtube.com
URLs as described in
this blog post
. You’ll automatically default to version 2, and you can test and make changes to your code against the staging server.
Start explicitly requesting version 2 using the
v=2
URL parameter or
GData-Version
HTTP request header
. Most of the YouTube API client libraries provide methods for switching between API versions, and they will take care of setting the appropriate
GData-Version
header for you. You may need to modify your code to make it compatible with version 2.
If you know that your code is incompatible with version 2 of the YouTube API and you can’t fix things yet, start explicitly requesting version 1 of the API. Note that this is not a long-term solution, as all code will eventually need to be migrated off of version 1.
Stay tuned over the coming months for more announcements about the change to the default in production, and the eventual decommission of version 1, currently scheduled for October 2011.
Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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