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I asked a question last week about how to loop a YouTube video from the Android YouTube app. The response was that it is not feasible.

I thought of a workaround where I could start a YouTube playlist that contains a number of entries of the video that I want to loop. I found this similar question, but it only works when playing in the browser. I need to play the playlist from the YouTube app. Does anyone know if it is possible to use an intent to launch the YouTube app to play a playlist?


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To launch the YouTube app:


The URL you would you to launch your playlist is:


I have not tested this. Try it out in your app and see if it works for you.

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Thanks. I gave it a try, but unfortunately, it didn't work. It played the first video in the playlist but did not start playing the second. –  Paul Feb 8 '12 at 21:34
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After doing some more research, I figured out how to open a playlist within the youtube app

    Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=" + playlist_id);
    Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    i.setClassName("com.google.android.youtube", "com.google.android.youtube.app.froyo.phone.PlaylistActivity");

I'm still not quite sure how to automatically start playing the first video though...

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this app would do it for you!.. but it would be great to have a default!.


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