PierfrancescoSoffritti/android-youtube-player
YouTube Player library for Android and Chromecast, stable and customizable. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
65/100
- Activity 87
- Release rhythm 16
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 180.5
- age_days: 3656
- days_rel: 346
- days_push: 79
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
3696 stars · 793 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
A stable, customizable open-source YouTube player library for Android, providing a simple View that wraps the IFrame Player API inside a WebView with a native Java/Kotlin interface. It also includes a Chromecast extension for casting YouTube videos to Chromecast devices.
Use cases
- play YouTube videos in an Android app
- embed a customizable YouTube player view in an Activity or Fragment
- cast YouTube videos to a Chromecast device
- replace the deprecated YouTube Android Player API
- control YouTube playback programmatically from Kotlin or Java
When to choose
- you need to play YouTube videos in an Android app without violating YouTube Terms of Service
- Google's official YouTube Android Player API is deprecated and unreliable
- you want a stable, widely adopted player library with Chromecast support
When to avoid
- you need to play local or non-YouTube video files
- you need offline video playback
- your app targets platforms other than Android
Facets
library · maturity stable
video-processing ui-components android-tools media mobile-development youtube-player webview chromecast iframe-player-api custom-view kotlin android
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/PierfrancescoSoffritti/android-youtube-player · fetched 2026-08-28 · cdea2016a095
- homepage: https://pierfrancescosoffritti.github.io/android-youtube-player/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4137a3165160
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| PierfrancescoSoffritti/android-youtube-player | main | 65 |
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