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Second app is called "YouTube for Google TV" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.youtube.googletv). It's strange that you can't find it on Google Play, maybe it has some regional/device restrictions or something.

Thank you very much for your quick reply.

I can find the "YouTube for Google TV" app on the Google Play Store when searching through the browser on my PC.  But on my phone, if I search for it on the Google Play Store it does not come up.  I see the "YouTube" app suitable for my phone, which shows as "installed", and I see "Google Play Movies and TV".  Same on my tablet.

On my Android TV Nexus Player, I find "YouTube for Android TV" and "Google Play Movies and TV", but not "YouTube for Google TV".

This article
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/android-tv-google-tv-killed/
would seem to explain what is going on, as well as the bitterly negative reviews for the March 2015 upgrade of the "YouTube for Google TV" app, here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.youtube.googletv

The fact that I can't install "YouTube for Google TV" on my Android TV is not surprising -- It seems clear that Google doesn't want Android TV owners to have access to it.  

So, back to the original problem:  It seems then that the YouTubeAPI for Android is not supported on Android TV (at least currently).  So, your original question is still a good one:  will Google make the YouTube API library work with the default "YouTube for Android TV" application?  Maybe they really don't want the YouTube viewing experience on the living room TV to be customized in third-party apps.

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Thank you for this post.  I am having the same problem with the default pre-installed version of YouTube on my Android TV Nexus Player.  When I attempt to "UPDATE YOUTUBE APP" it doesn't actually update it.  If I uninstall and re-install YouTube, it simply re-installs the same version (version 1.0.5.4, updated on Mar 26, 2015, 8.62 MB).  If I uninstall that, and search on Google Play Store for the com.google.android.youtube.googletv app recommended above, it doesn't find it - it only finds the first app.

You say "But installing of second app is very inconvenient for users." - I agree - it's so inconvenient, I can't figure out even how to do it.
Would you mind telling me how you did it?

Thank you,
Lloyd

Any recommendations on how to implement youtube player on Android TV? I tried with a WebView and I got a white screen and my application just crashed after focusing the WebView

No one have any information about this ? At least, know if is an error or other ?

I have the same issue;

Nexus Player with android 5.1.1;
com.google.android.youtube.googletv is not installed (and can't be installed) and the youtube player api gives an error and suggests to update the youtube app.

Waiting for updates...

Same problem here... Would be great to have a response from Google.

See this post on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30716694/android-tv-embedded-youtube-1080p/31038253#31038253

Thanks shawns. But does it mean it's a bug and it will be fixed (The init error with Update Youtube App make me think that) or google don't want to allow Youtube Player API on Android TV ?

any more word from y/t on the fix for this or timelines?

Additionally, this problem is affecting end-users as well as developers.

I'm using the API for YouTube thumbnails, and am using the onInitializationFailure callback to detect failure. When a user recoverable error happens, the YouTube app linked to from the Dialog is "not available on this device". Very confusing for users, as they can clearly see that it is there.

@Override
public void onInitializationFailure(YouTubeThumbnailView view, YouTubeInitializationResult loader) {
     if (loader.isUserRecoverableError()) {
         loader.getErrorDialog(activity, code).show();
    }
}

Youtube for google tv was replaced by youtube for android tv. so, I try to use YouTube Player API Reference for iframe Embeds and achieved most of all functions basically. But it seems working with a long delay and the style of the layer is not good.

So, do you have the new api for android tv?

and there the address for iframe api:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference

Hi everyone, thanks for the reports on this. The YouTubeAPI class is not supported on the Android TV platform, and there are no plans to add support for it at this time.

For your information, I've created YoutubeTV library (https://github.com/bertrandmartel/youtubetv), a wrapper library for YouTube Player API Reference for iframe Embeds

It provides a YoutubeTvView that embeds a Webview with Youtube iframe with all Javascript API available from this view.

Also, YoutubeTvFragment holds a YoutubeTvView with a media control bar (PlaybackOverlayFragment)

So ma....@google, tell me please. I'm an end user, and I want to utilize My Amazon Echo thusly: "Alexa, turn on fireplace" and have it launch a YouTube fireplace video. You seem to be saying this cannot be done and will not be accommodated.

Are you folks aware of what's actually occurring out here in the world? This is the future, and can't be difficult to do. Please enable it.

Thank you for your help.

2017년 2월 26일 (일) 오후 8:31, <buganizer-system@google.com>님이 작성:

Hi, ma...@gmail.com - are there any revised plans to support YouTubeAPI class on the Android TV platform?