YouTube WatchMe for Android project brings YouTube live streaming to Android apps

October 29, 2014

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YouTube announced the WatchMe for Android project that allows developers to integrate YouTube live streaming into their Android apps. It's already being utilized by HTC with the Re and Sony with the Live on YouTube app.

It's an open-source project that uses the YouTube Data API v3, YouTube Live Streaming API, Google Play Services, and Plus API. It's available on Github and can be customized. It's still experimental, but you can make sure to keep up with the progress if you subscribe to the YouTube for Developers channel.

How to start using the app

Sync the Github repo
In your Google Developer Console,
1. Enable the Youtube Data API v3 and Google+ API.
2. Create a client ID for Android, using your SHA1 and package name.
Include cross-platform compiled streaming libraries.

Either

libffmpeg.so under src/main/jniLibs/armeabi,

another streaming library with modifying VideoStreamingInterface

source: YouTube API Blog

Robert Nazarian Author

Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.