Google
on Wednesday updated its YouTube app for Android users. The updated app
with Version 5.5.27 is now available for all smartphones running
Android Version 2.3.3 and above.
The latest version of the YouTube
app (available on the Google Play store)
integrates few new features to it. It now allows user to find videos,
playlists and channels together in search results. Additionally there
are now tabs on channel pages for Activity, Videos and Playlists.
Apart
from the new integrations, the updated YouTube app brings various bug
fixes, including a fix for Cast icon that used to appear over the player
when Bluetooth is connected.
Reportedly, Google on Wednesday had
mistakenly pushed test build of the YouTube app (version 5.5.26) to the
Play Store. Before the company could realise its mistake, it was spotted
by various tech blogs. The test build was quickly pulled, and replaced
to the present (5.5.27) general release YouTube app.
The spotted
test build sported a new icon and new settings for the popular video
sharing website. It had replaced the iconic 'play' logo of YouTube with a
'dog-bone' icon, while the shape and colour of the icon were same as
present.
Readers might be perplexed at the dog-bone icon, and
assume an exciting new release is in the pipeline.
However, as it was a
test build that was mistakenly released, the icon quite definitely
represented the 'Dogfooding' status of the app. In development terms,
dogfooding refers to a product or service developed by that company so
as to test it before it is made available to customers.
Interestingly,
the spotted test build of the YouTube app featured a new options in the
app's settings menu, namely, an ExoPlayer. So far, no details are
known about it, as the update was quickly pulled from the Play Store.
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