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We are using the YoutubePlayerSDK to play youtube videos in our app but I realized that requires the device to have youtube installed on it. I've heard of exoplayer. Does anyone if it's a good alternative? I'm looking for the ability to show thumbnails, subtitles too.

It works well, can handle thumbnails and subtitles, but it can't play YouTube videos directly (you can use something like e.g. NewPipe/youtube-dl to play youtube videos, but that may violate the Youtube ToS in your jurisdiction)

Thanks for your reply. Also I realized the youtube version they want the users to have is `4.2.16` which is ancient. It might work for now. Thanks though!

<https://github.com/PierfrancescoSoffritti/android-youtube-player|https://github.com/PierfrancescoSoffritti/android-youtube-player>