YouTube app miniplayer redesign works like picture-in-picture

YouTube for Android is testing a redesign of the miniplayer that serves as an in-app picture-in-picture (PiP). 

At this time, the YouTube miniplayer is docked to the underside bar. The video — which is cropped and fairly brief — seems on the left with the title and channel after that, whereas the play and shut buttons are on the proper. 

The brand new design appears to be like like a picture-in-picture window. It allows you to browse YouTube, whereas nonetheless watching the video.

This rectangular card options rounded corners that lower into the video and has the play/pause button flanked by 10-second rewind/skip. The background for the controls is white or darkish relying on the theme. (It’s a bit distracting and an Ambient mode impact right here can be cool.)

Previous vs. new

Notably you’ll be able to resize this new miniplayer video to take up all the width of the display. Drag the rectangle, like picture-in-picture, to maneuver it round. To shut, faucet the ‘x’ button within the top-right nook or transfer it to the underside of your display.

This picture-in-picture miniplayer isn’t but broadly rolled out to YouTube for Android, and we’ve solely obtained one report of it right now. 

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Thanks Philip!