Google has recently released an Android standalone version for those who redesigned YouTube for Android. Version 2.0.26 has been updated with many new features such as portrait and landscape view, info channel, video sharing on the Buzz, Facebook, and Twitter. With this latest update, upload videos through Android phones will be easier. Mobile users can change the title, description, and set video privacy. In addition android phone owners can also create, edit, even delete the playlist on youtube.
Along with the issuance of an app on YouTube for android, YouTube latest version for the android has also brought Vevo application with all its services to watch video clips of the songs that are on Vevo. Android phone users who have the versions of Froyo Android 2.2 or above, was able to download the new 2.0 YouTube application.
The latest update of this version of YouTube for android is the existence of Vevo application that allows its users to watch video clips of the songs that are on Vevo directory. Vevo is a joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Abu Dhabi Media. In addition to recording, Vevo also has a licensing deal with EMI for its content. Warner Brothers, the fourth of the “big four” record labels, has selected a partnership with MTV Networks instead.
Andrey Doronichev (YouTube Mobile Product Manager) explained in the conference, YouTube for Android comes with some extras to enhance the music experience of mobile video, Music videos are now clearly labeled “music note”, and the music video also contains artist biography, a list of tracks for a particular artist and a list of related artists.
Features:
- A good UI
- Design of playback on the page (read the comments while video is playing!)
- Home screen video feeds Personalized
- Brand new player controls *
- Play the new control-to-full screen playback