YouTube TV App Gets Picture-in-Picture Support on Android Oreo
YouTube TV,
while not nearly as well-known as the flagship YouTube app, is a decent
standalone app which offers users the ability to stream content from around 53
popular cable TV channels including the likes of the BBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN,
AMC and more for a monthly subscription fee of $35. Since the app was launched
by Google back in April it has been praised as one of the best video streaming
services available when it comes to major broadcast networks, and now they have
released an update which capitalises on new features added into the Android Oreo
OS to improve upon the service’s offering further still.
YouTube TV has now joined a select group of applications
which currently support the picture-in-picture feature incorporated into the Oreo
version of the Android OS, which allows users to continue watching video content
while they crack on with other tasks using separate functions and applications.
Other apps which already support the feature include the standard YouTube app,
Netflix, Chrome, VLC, and Facebook. Most importantly in the minds of those over
at Google/YouTube – major rival services such as Hulu and Sling TV are not
among this group.
To make use of the new feature simply press the home button
while a program is playing; the player window will then shrink and pop out to
let you do other things. While using picture-in-picture, controls remain in
place allowing you to easily rewind, fast-forward, pause, and return to full
screen.
That being said those who dislike the feature and would
rather be shot of it can easily disable it via the app’s settings menu.
While the YouTube TV app itself is available on iOS, this
latest update as it stands is not.
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