YouTube is one of the Basic applications on any Androidphone. Playing videos in this application is already a standard within the Googlesystem, and though it may seem impossible yet there are some functions that you can add to the Google application. Today we are going to offer some of them, which you can add by Xposed modules that tend to offer alternative ways of using popular applications. Let’s see some of these functions.
To install these new features we have installed Xposed Framework, a complement in Android that works as a repository and which allows to install modules as we do in iOS with Cydia. To install Xposed Framework you can follow the following tutorials:
- How to install Xposed on an Android smartphone
- How to install Xposed Framework 6.0 Android Marshmallow and which modules are compatible
- How to find, install and activate modules Xposed in Android
Move forward and backward in the video by sliding your fingers
One of the things more cumbersome when it comes to playing video on Youtube is having to move forward or backward in a video. The timeline tends to be somewhat clumsy or too sensitive to our fingers and that is why this module is going to come in very handy to be able to move back quickly and easily in a video. With this module of Xposed forward and back on the video controls can be managed with only to slide our fingers horizontally.
Download module Swipe to Seek
Playing in the background
This is a function of which we have spoken sometimes, but that today links up with the module that comes next. This module allows to play videos from Youtube in the background, so we won’t have to be necessarily in the Youtube app to play the video, by the reproduction shall not cease changing app.
Download Youtube Background Playback module
Add notifications playback controls
This module is complemented by the previous and allows us to control the notification bar from a reproduction in the background of a video on Youtube. Thanks to this module in the notification bar, in addition to showing the video playing in the background, we can forward and back in it thanks to its controls and without need to open Youtube.
Download module YouTube seek bar notification
As you can see they are some very useful features to improve control of the videos shown on Youtube and thanks to Xposed are very simple to install.
The article how add new functions to Youtube on Android was published in MovilZona.