YouTube will allow you to download videos for offline viewing
The Developer Fair of Google, known asGoogle I/O 2012, continues to leave news in the field of applications And it is that, these days of conferences have been centered both on the hardware or physical part of the devices, as well as on the software or applications And precisely, one of the applications most important of Google will count with a very interesting new feature: being able to download videos to watch them anytime, anywhere
Specifically, this new version of the YouTube video portal for portable devices Android could download videos to the terminal itself so as not to depend on an Internet connectionand reproduce them like this when it suits the user best. Of course, first you have to wait for the said video or videos to download through a connection Wi-Fi or 3G But it is a good option to have the user's favorite contents at hand without having to look for a public Wi-Fi network or when traveling abroad
But there's more. According to the media outlet Mashable, this function of YouTube will be intelligent, downloading from automatically the videos of the channels to which you are subscribed the user, and those who, out of habit, may like to return In this way, when connected to a Wi-Fi network, the application would start downloading, letting the user know if that video can be view offline thanks to an icon in the shape of a green arrow And for those more suspicious, it seems that this new version will have the option to automatically download only videos that the user has added to the playlist Watch Later
While this improvement arrives, in the app market of Android, Google Play , there is already a new version of the application YouTube with interesting news . This is version 4.0 for smartphones and tablets running on the operating systemAndroid in its version 3.2 or higher In it we find a good amount of new features, some focused on its visual section, but most of it focused on improving and facilitating its handling
Specifically, the first thing to note about this new version of YouTube is its renovated visual section Now the most interesting videos for the user are presented in the form of a list occupying the entire screen In addition, a handy drop-down menu has been included on the left side of the screen that helps us to save time serving as direct access to our subscribed channels , just by clicking on the desired one. Also curious is the possibility of preload in the cache memory videos of these favourite channels A function that although does not allow us to watch videos offline, it does helploading of these is more fluid, avoiding cuts and boring waits.
Finally, it has provided the possibility of using our terminal as a remote control to play YouTube videos on other devices such as smart televisions , being able to watch these videos on a larger screen In short, a update that adapts this tool to the new version of the operating system Android 4.1 with the nickname of Jelly Beam This version 4.0 from YouTube can now be downloaded free from Google Play Users with terminals running minor version to 3.2 of Android you will have to wait some months to enjoy these functions.
