---
title: "How to activate the native YouTube player in your Android app"
description: "In last week update, we published a brand new feature allowing your users to watch YouTube videos directly from your Android app (either in articles and video s"
canonical_url: "https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/how-to-activate-the-native-youtube-player-in-your-android-app-a206/"
lang: en
date: 2013-08-05
last_updated: 2017-06-14
---

# How to activate the native YouTube player in your Android app

[Back](/blog/make-it-r13/)

# How to activate the native YouTube player in your Android app

Written by [Dumè Siacci](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/author/dominique-siacci/)  on Monday 5 August 2013· Last update: Wednesday 14 June 2017

![](https://cmsphoto.ww-cdn.com/superstatic/41269/art/default/5741450-8559647.jpg?v=1375715927.1488273)

In last week update, we published a brand new feature allowing your users to **watch YouTube videos** directly from your Android app (either in articles and video sections). It uses the native YouTube player for a **better user experience**.

If you've already re-built your app since the [update #1238](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/beautiful-apps-engine-update-1238-a202/), you just need to **follow these steps** to activate the new player. If not, follow this quick process, re-build your Android app from your GoodBarber backend, and publish an update on the store!

## Process to activate the YouTube player

![](https://cmsphoto.ww-cdn.com/superstatic/41269/art/default/5741450-8559648.jpg?v=1375715927.2243078)

1. Go to <https://code.google.com/apis/console> and login with your **Google Developer account**.
2. On the top left of the screen, just below the Google logo, click on the drop down menu and select "**Other projects > Open**".
3. Remember when you've followed the Android compilation process! Locate the API project that you've created at the step 4, it should be named "**GMap**". Click on it.
4. In the left menu, select **Services**.
5. At the end of the list, activate the item called "**YouTube Data API v3**", and you're done!

Enjoy :)

- [#Android](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/tags/android)
- [#How To](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/tags/how%20to)
- [#YouTube](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/tags/youtube)

![Dominique Siacci](https://blog.goodbarber.com/_public/profile/ca/ca3512f4dfa95a03169c5a670a4c91a19b3077b4-default.jpg)

About the author[Dominique Siacci](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/author/dominique-siacci/)CTO

Co-founder and CTO of GoodBarber. I drive the product's technical vision: architecture, infrastructure, and more recently the integration of AI at the core of the platform. A developer at heart, I stay close to the code and the engineering decisions that enable thousands of GoodBarber users to publish their apps without writing a single line of code.

[Read more](https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/author/dominique-siacci/)

[![LinkedIn](https://portal.ww-cdn.com/portal_static/svg/base2021/linkedin.3ed8162e2a2b.svg)](https://fr.linkedin.com/in/dsiacci/)[![X](https://portal.ww-cdn.com/portal_static/svg/base2021/x.820492c586dd.svg)](https://twitter.com/dsiacci)[![Facebook](https://portal.ww-cdn.com/portal_static/svg/base2021/fb.be37c82b8283.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/dsiacci)