YouTube Go – Android Apps on Google Play

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YouTube Go, a new app announced at ‘Google for India’ event in September is now available for download on Google Play Store. The YouTube Go allows users to download and share YouTube videos. The app offers ‘relatable’ content recommendations, is ‘offline first’ and works with low connectivity or no connectivity, is ‘cost-effective’ and provides a ‘social’ experience. 

YouTube Go is designed to help users save videos to their mobile devices for offline viewing and reduce data consumption. The highlight of the app is that it allows users to download the video in low-quality mode for offline viewing. The apps also displays mobile data that will be consumed while streaming and downloading the video. YouTube Go automatically limits the video quality to 640p. Also, a lot of features from the native YouTube app are missing such as the ability to swipe down the currently playing video and browse other content at the same time. Google says YouTube Go is a new app built from scratch to capture the next billion users affected by slower internet speed. YouTube Go is supposedly lighter than the main YouTube app and consumers much less data. YouTube Go is launching only in India and will support English, Marathi, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Gujarati languages.

The ability to share videos with friends nearby is one of the cool new features of the YouTube Go app. Users will be able to share videos with their friend without using any data. The app relies on WiFi direct for this data transfer, and you’ll need to keep Bluetooth on to find friends via your phone. 

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