Application YouTube for Android It is the most comfortable way to enjoy the video streaming platform from your mobile phone. What’s more, it is the player that we can move in full screen with Premium functions such as PiP mode. A few months ago, the operating system of the Mountain View company added a relevant modification that improved YouTube videos; now the application receives a novelty that will not require us to pay money.

As we read on Android Police, YouTube on Android is adding a miniplayer where it was missing: within the application itselfsimilar to the web version. You also won’t need a paid subscription to the platform. That’s all we know about its arrival.

Watch a YouTube video while browsing the app. It took a long time

As you probably know, the YouTube app for Android offers certain benefits to paying subscribers. YouTube Premium offers the following background playIt’s useful for listening to music without having to have video on the screen, but it also adds the possibility of having the video in any application.

This PiP mode (Picture in Picture) is a kind of mini player that is always present on our Android mobile, regardless of the application we are in. But when we want to watch (or listen to) a clip while looking for the next content to consume, we have to settle for a lower bar where it is almost impossible to watch anything.

On the left is the current design of the mini player. On the right is an image from Android Police with the new PiP mode

Google is currently planning to provide a solution, and special media have noted that this addition has been activated in a small group of users. Android Police reports that this new function is available in version 19.29.37, but the truth is that the change by server.

How does this new player behave? Instead of going to the bottom bar when you minimize a video in the app resizable player and can be moved anywhere on this screen, just like for users who pay outside of the YouTube app.

Assuming the search giant decides to roll out this change to all users, this will be the first major change in many years. It came in 2018 current bottom barIt replaced a mini-player that was fixed to the bottom right.

To prove this we have to do this keep waiting For Google to decide to press the red button. We do not know when it will happen, but if the tests are successful we will not have to wait too long. We are eager to try this new mini player so that we do not miss the content while browsing the application.

via | Android Police

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