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Here’s my playlist, so submit a video, maybe?
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Update:
YouTube Direct Lite for iOS
is now available as well. This version demonstrates best practices for using the YouTube APIs on iOS.
YouTube Direct Lite
allows you to solicit videos from your users and then moderate those submissions into standard YouTube playlists for display. And now there is an app for that.
With the YouTube Direct Lite apps (
Android
,
iOS
)
, your fans can
record a new video,
upload an existing video from their device,
pick one of their own YouTube uploads
and submit to your playlist, all from their Android device. You can then moderate their submissions, which won't show up in your playlist till you explicitly approve them.
YouTube Direct Lite platform
doesn’t require any server-side code that needs to be configured or deployed. As the
moderator
, you will see a playlist of videos waiting for your approval. The videos you approve, will be added into your channel.
How to start using the Android application
1)
Register your Android app
2) Enable the Youtube Data API v3 and Google+ API in your
API Console
.
3) Include the
Google Play Services library
in your project to build this application.
4) Plug your Playlist Id into
Constants.java
and Android API Key into
Auth.java
Main Activity
YouTube player
Upload Service
How to start using the iOS application
1)
Enable the YouTube Data API
2) Plug your Playlist Id, Client ID and Client Secret into
Utils.h
2) Install the
Google Client Library
.
3) Run the sample
Uploads Playlist
iFrame Player
YouTube Upload
Open-sourced to reference best practices of YouTube APIs on Android and iOS
YouTube Direct Lite apps (
Android
,
iOS
) are open-sourced projects and you are more than welcome to customize them for your needs. You can also contribute back to the projects with bug reports, feature or merge requests.
Android
application uses the
YouTube Data API v3
,
YouTube Android Player API
,
YouTube Resumable Uploads
,
Google Play Services
and
Plus API
.
In addition to Android best practices for the YouTube APIs, this project follows the
design and development guidelines for Android
. This project adheres to
Holo style
,
typography
,
48dp rhythm
,
iconography
and uses
IntentService
,
BigPictureStyle notification
, and
GoogleAccountCredential
.
iOS
application uses the
YouTube Data API v3
, the
YouTube iFrame Player API
, and
YouTube Resumable Uploads
.
In addition, in these videos, we talk about the philosophy we followed in building these apps and a few best practices for the Youtube APIs, Android, and iOS development.
This App is still experimental, so stay tuned here and subscribe to the
YouTube for Developers
channel to keep up on the latest.
Cheers,
—
Ibrahim Ulukaya
, YouTube API Team
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