INSTALLATION
First of all, remember to enable Unknown Sources from your device’s Security settings, to allow installations of non market Apps (safely ignore the subsequent dialog);Temporary disable apps as Halo, Screenfilter, Twilight, LastPass password manager or anything similar (apps that do “draw on other apps”), otherwise the “install” button will not work;To install the app, click on your notification bar message for the completed download (if using the system downloads app, otherwise this may vary: i.e. if you have a file manager installed, you can browse to your downloads folder and install YTD’s apk directly, clicking on the file).
USAGE
Search for video and music within the app itself, ORSelect the “share” button in the YouTube App while watching a video (or share any YouTube plain text link via any App) and choose “YouTube downloader”;You’ll see all the video codecs and qualities available for the video you’re on. then:Press an item to download the video locally (on the device) or to send the download via SSH to a remote PC. Destination machine requirements: Bash and Wget. Other SSH info available;Long-press an item and choose between copy to clipboard or share link as text. Note: such a link (differently from when you send it via SSH) can be only used from the same device where it has been created OR from the same LAN, if you share it to another PC.Use the Dashboard to interact with downloaded video (audio extraction/conversion/mux and file management).On Lolipop or above, you can copy/move/rename/delete files on external sdcard.
FEATURES
Search for YouTube videos within the appDownload on your device;Remote download on another PC via SSH;Support for almost any format/quality available from YouTube;Audio extraction to aac/ogg or conversion to mp3 (menu available via single-click on items in the Dashboard tab);Mp3’s ID3 tags edit;Mux Audio-Only and Video-Only streams into a complete video (to enjoy HD resolutions available as separated streams only);File management (menu available via long-click on items in the Dashboard tab);Handle download link: copy and/or pass it to other apps;video list filters by format, quality etc via (left) sliding menu;Many preferences to customize usage.
KNOWN ISSUES
Some very long running downloads may be forced to PAUSE state if the app is not kept to the front for a certain amount of time. In this cases a manual resume is needed.On KitKat and above may be not possible to use the external (removable) sdcard as download destination folder. In this case you must use the standard memory storage (for sake of simplicity, use one of the destinations below the setting choose standard folder, being “Downloads”, “DCIM” or “Movies”);
ANTI-FEATURES
Are not supported for download all videos that:
Require login (i.e. age restricted videos) ==> and please: do NOT send me logcat reports about this point. Thanks.Implement encrypted streams (some complete movies);Are not available in your country;Are live events.
Support forum
Credits
Now for development of this app credit goes to the website http://dentex.github.io/apps/youtubedownloader/ and thea apk file is also provided by them only.
