Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Google releases YouTube app for iOS

In one of the betas of iOS 6 released to developers in recent months, Apple has shown that the native YouTube application would not be included in the system due to the end of the agreement with Google. Google then said it would create its own application (such as exists in Android) to the platform. Today, during the night for some reason, the app was released.


Anyone who has used the mobile version of YouTube or passed the eye in version for Android will not notice big differences. The interface is very similar, except for the side panel where you can choose the channels to watch and adjust settings. And the videos in full screen some more controls are also displayed. Otherwise, all very similar - and a considerable advance over the native application that iOS still has.

The search, as in other applications Google has autocompletion and support voice input. By logging the user has easy access to channels that signed and sent to the last videos. You can also subscribe to channels, and to post comments on videos like. And the video sharing options are vast, although support for Facebook is still way buggy. Basically everything that you've made in the mobile version.

There are still some items notoriously missing. You can not, for example, choose which video quality will be displayed, as is possible in the mobile version of the site. So who is in bounds and 3G traffic will have to use the application sparingly - all videos play in 480p. Nor is there a specific version for the iPad and you can not upload videos through or enjoy in comments, but I bet that Google is already working on these features.

The app is free, has 7.5 MB in size and can be installed on all iPhones sold today (3GS, 4 and 4S), the last two models of the iPod Touch and iPad all (in stretched mode for now) since the devices run version 4.3 of iOS.