Open youtube video at a specific time using android intent

Question

I am opening a youtube video from my app, similar with this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12439378/379865

I was wondering if it's possible to open the video at a specified time, so for instance have video running from 30 seconds at start, not from the beginning.

Answer 1

YouTube have a great way of indicating time in their URL for the videos.

• So let's say a url of a video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z149x12sXsw
• You can reference the same URL with it playing automatically 30 seconds in by putting &t=0m30s at the end.
• When you open the video, pass in the new url with the new extension. It should look something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z149x12sXsw&t=0m30s

The Intent will look something like startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z149x12sXs" + time))); where String time = "&t=0m30s";

Edit: Expansion for YouTube App.

public static void watchYoutubeVideo(String id, String time){
    Intent appIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("vnd.youtube:" + id + time));
    Intent webIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
                Uri.parse("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" + id + time));
    try {
        startActivity(appIntent);
    } catch (ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
        startActivity(webIntent);
    }
} 

Using another answer from that question. The same logic can be applied to any intent just add the Time string to the URI like shown above regardless of intention.