All about picture in picture mode on Android 8

All about picture in picture mode on Android 8

What is Picture in Picture mode – Android 8.0 has launched Picture in Picture feature mode. It is a special type of multi-window mode mostly used for video playback. It allows the user to watch a video clip in a small window pinned to the corner of the screen while navigating between apps or browsing content on the main screen.

How To use You Tube picture in picture mode

If you do have a YouTube Red subscription then you can easily switch to Picture in Picture mode. You just have to open a video then tap the home key and you’ll straightaway get a floating YouTube video on your screen. You can now reposition the video anywhere on your screen and pause/play the video.

When your app is in Picture in Picture mode, video playback in the window may cause audio interference with another application.. To avoid this you can request the audio focus when you start playing the video and then handle audio focus change notifications

As we know that the Android 8.0 has launched the feature Picture in Picture feature mode. What you all need is to update your VLC Player to its latest version and make sure that you are using Android 8+. The latest mode has to work for YouTube as well. Some users who already had the Android 8 Beta version able to get it

Now as far as YouTube is concerned the Picture in Picture mode is only available to you tube red subscribers only. So if you want to get this feature, you have to Subscribe to YouTube  Red.

This all is because, Google wanted their users to Subscribe to YouTube  Red. This strategy of

Google didn’t worked out because YouTube Red is not available across the globe. The cost of subscription is 9.99 dollars per month. But as the YouTube Red is not available worldwide so those who are OK in paying may not get this feature.

But there are some alternatives for the users. Picture in Picture is not any new amazing feature that Android has introduced infact both root hack and in the form of a stand alone app, the feature was available since long time. You just need to download a third- party app and get this feature on the recent versions of android. This is how it resulted as a worst strategy of Google to increase YouTube red subscribers.