Christian Selig makes the YouTube Imaginative and prescient Professional app that Google wouldn’t

Though it’s an unofficial third-party app, Juno helps a lot of the options you’d anticipate out of a local YouTube app. You may watch movies (clearly), scrub and skip by means of them utilizing pinch gestures, and it’ll even respect the movies’ side ratios. Looking YouTube’s catalog can also be supported (although you possibly can’t see video feedback), and Juno can also be set as much as present YouTube advertisements to keep away from making Google “grumpy,” Selig writes.

Juno delivers a absolutely native visionOS UI that faucets into YouTube’s embed API, which is designed to permit movies to be embedded in exterior webpages. Once you need to browse YouTube’s video catalog, Juno pulls up a tweaked model of the YouTube web site. Apparently, the app is even intelligent sufficient to not present advertisements for YouTube Premium subscribers, although it stays to be seen how Google feels a few third-party developer being accountable for an app for one among its greatest providers on a brand new piece of {hardware}. Selig notes that he didn’t use any personal/inner APIs to develop the app.

YouTube is one among a variety of excessive profile providers alongside Spotify and Netflix that isn’t providing a local app for Apple’s new $3,499 headset at launch. In YouTube’s case, Google’s official response has been to level customers in the direction of playback in Apple’s Safari browser as a substitute, leading to an inferior viewing expertise. Apple has supplied builders a solution to make their present iPad apps to the Imaginative and prescient Professional (there have been studies that Netflix’s app was accessible this fashion previous to the headset’s launch), however main builders together with Google have opted towards repurposing their apps this fashion. 

“Does it really feel like a superbly native visionOS app?” Selig writes, “Properly no, but it surely’s a heck of loads nicer than the web site, and to be honest Google apps usually do their very own factor quite than use iOS system UI, so unsure we’ll ever absolutely see that.”