Here is what is new in today's big Tubecast update for YouTube lovers

Although YouTube is in one case once again changing their API for developers and third party apps, one of our favorite apps Tubecast is getting a big update today, including fixing some recent bugs.

If you recollect, a few weeks ago Tubecast for Windows 8.1 joined the ranks with its Windows Phone brother to become a universal app. Today is the first update for both apps, bringing some improvements and new features. Permit's take a look!

Tubecast 1.two for Windows 8.1

• Screen stays on while playing videos
• Search handling in the app by hitting keyboard directly
• Latin Serbian language
• Meliorate annotation handling
• All the player zone is clickable for play/pause
• Bigger newsfeed for logged users
• New button for opening Application bar (easier for Windows 10 users)
• Bugs fixed

Tubecast three.0 Windows Phone

• New video quality: 4K (only apply information technology for casting, no smartphone can decode it correctly at the moment)
• Windows viii merged pattern and code
• Landscape Navigation
• Network error' stock-still, it was due to YouTube API quota
• Bigger newsfeed for logged users
• Improve DLNA (with new SmarTV)
• Improve notation handling
• New pinch gesture and double tap for fullscreen videos
• All the player zone is clickable for play/interruption
• New Icon
• Bug fixes

Some other fixes and improvements include the developers universalizing/merging the "trial" purchase in the PRO version then that it is $3 for universal casting in Windows 8 and Windows Phone. This change should clear up whatever confusion over previous and future purchases carrying over betwixt apps. All the same, if you do not want to have the universal unlock, you tin can withal just unlock for each platform at the lower $ii marker.

In the Windows 8.one version, yous can now just type to search anywhere in the app equally this activity launches the search pane. Certainly that is convenient.

Finally, speaking of those YouTube API version 3.0 changes the developers of Tubecast accept told us this:

"Tubecast is congenital at xc% on APIv3, so it'south not a big bargain to get to 100%, we are prepare for information technology :) and volition publish a new update asap (before April 20th)".

And then wait out for that update in the coming days.

A Annotation on Silverlight vs. WinRT

Some people have noted (and complained) that Tubecast for Windows Phone withal uses "legacy" Silverlight 8.0 instead of Silverlight 8.1 or even WinRT APIs. It does seem counterintuitive, but the developers behind the app have their reasons. As usual, they have to do with limitations that Microsoft has on private APIs, which tie the hands of developers, in short:

1. WinRT lacks "run nether lock" API, which is needed for casting
2. Silverlight eight.1 loses the Background Sound Agent because Microsoft removed this API
3. Silverlight 8.0 does not allow you install the app to the SD card

Then, of the three limitations listed, Tubecast has gone with the third: you cannot install to the SD card. While unfortunate, because the app is about YouTube and casting, the other two programming choices are not just not options.

Until Windows 10 comes around, developers will constantly have to make these trade-off calls. So bung the arraign at Microsoft, not developers doing the best they can with what they got.

Download Tubecast Pro ane.2 for Windows 8.ane (Free, optional in-app buy)

Download Tubecast Pro 3.0 for Windows Phone (Costless, optional in-app purchase)

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Source: https://www.windowscentral.com/here-what-new-todays-big-tubecast-update-youtube

Posted by: levinethaverce.blogspot.com

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