Jasmine, a YouTube app on iOS, had this ability. But then Google sent them a message telling them to remove that feature. For some reason Google doesn't want people playing YouTube in the background. Not sure why.
I'm pretty sure that's illegal, or at least against one of Google's policies. If you streamed Thriller on YouTube and listened to it in the background, wouldn't it be the same thing as buying Thriller from the music store, only free?
Doesn't the default music player do exactly what you are looking for?
Mine will play in the background unless I'm doing something else that requires sound (games, etc)
No because video is accomplished by an Activity and not a Service and all Activities are frozen in time when they lose focus so they don't consume CPU cycles. In order for them to accomplish this, they would have to create a new service that would start when the activity loses focus due to the limitations of the Android OS.
That sounds about right. Is there an OS reason why browsers etc. do not have adjustable window size ? I seem to recall some video player that could work in a floating resizable popup window ... SuperVideo - looked it up.
Try that player, jazzyyxo.
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e....PopupVideo&feature=nav_result&token=3G2B2Q_u
Yes, the reason why you can't have windows side by side (different apps) and truly multi task like you can in Windows is because the Android OS handles these activities one at a time to prevent apps from destroying your battery life.
Download pvstar+ from the play store. Not only can you play in the background, the app also cache the videos so you can watch the videos you've watched again later even when you have no internet.