is there anyway to keep youtube playing while browseing around internet on tablets
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Have a samsung galaxy tab 2 and wanna know if theres a way to do this
It can be done on iphone so is there a way to trick it into working on android ice cream sandwich
It can be done on iphone so is there a way to trick it into working on android ice cream sandwich
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I would've thought that iPhone and iPad would behave the same way. Am I doing something wrong?
The info about it says its designed for multi tasking it doesnt seem to live up to the words.
Its the only thing ive found to moan about though.
Its the whole "multi tasking" that winds me up on both Android and iOS. Its limited and quite ridiculously irritating. Especially on iOS .... both running an operating system that could readily handle full blown multi tasking, rather than a loused up version of task switching, but the designers decided that everything needs to be locked down for our own good .....
The problem with these platforms is that they put the apps to "sleep" whenever they go into the background, in order to save battery life. The OSes only see the browser as a browser and don't consider the fact that there is active content playing in them. The OS would need to be specifically told to allow the browser to run in the background, instead of suspending it - and I believe the only way to do that would be for the developer (Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc) to write that into a future OS update. ie. there's no way to add an exception yourself. Windows doesn't have this problem because it is a full multitasking environment.
EDIT: I also tried using an app called Youtube+. This also allowed the videos to play in the background and it s a metro app, rather than desktop-based. So at least in Windows RT, there is a way for developers to allow their applications the right to run in the background. So I would expect there would be a similar option for Android apps (not so sure about iOS). It might be worth seeing if Youtube+ is available for Android, or try some other Youtube player in the store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myboyfriendisageek.airbrowser&feature=search_result
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myboyfriendisageek.stickit&feature=search_result
You can also form playlists which can play in the background whilst you use any other apps.
Nextvid
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=Nextvid.mobile.player&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIk5leHR2aWQubW9iaWxlLnBsYXllciJd
The Ipad operating system does not fully multitask.