YouTube got a push to 5.5.26, an update that carried with it some UI tweaks, and a different icon. As a matter of fact, the icon seems to be a mistake. Google has sent out the Dogfood version of YouTube, designated for internal testing. The updated app has a before unseen “dogfood” settings screen with a few options correlated to “ExoPlayer.”
Hence, there are important UI tweaks that seem to signify a move toward greater information density, and an attempt to put everything where users locate them more easily.
In the new update, the user pages, have been restored from a set of cards to one large card on the new Channels, Videos and Playlists tabs. The information has been compressed to the Newsstand’s mini cards to enable users to see increased content at once.
Additionally of note is a small transformation of the hamburger navigation menu. The recently updated YouTube extends Playlists from a menu entry to the present list of your playlists directly in the sidebar. There’s too a fresh “best of” list underneath your subscriptions, substituting “From YouTube” that seemed there in advance. The UI and organization have been polished, though the menu still gives a quick way to offerings from a diversity of genres.
Users can view the information, share, thumbs-up, or delete playlists from the playlist overview page. Naturally, you can just delete a playlist that is yours.
Flagging videos had been moved out into different video’s overflow menu, which before provided an HD toggle including a CC toggle.
Users can also respond to or publish comments now.
There are too a bunch of different offline-related strings, providing users the opportunity to store offline content to an SD card, helping them to include one if they have not previously.
Nevertheless, there’s a sign toward some survey, with the opportunity to skip after few seconds just like YouTube’s pre-roll commercials.
Google has now gone to version 5.5.27, eliminating the dogfood options and returning the “best of” list, and going back individual users’ pages to the way they were before (with big cards rather than compressed lists). This APK is also ready for download.
Download the YouTube app for Android application from Google Play, the apk version 5.5.26 and apk version 5.5.27.
Requirements Android 2.3.3 or higher.
