How To Make An App Like YouTube | STT

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The success of YouTube is unparalleled and to think it was launched only 15 years ago. If you are obsessed with YouTube and wish to create a similar app, you are in the right place. Today we discuss the features and technical aspects of the app.

Going to the basics, YouTube’s technology which was used to lay the foundation is accessible in the public domain. This does not mean that it makes the task of creating an app like this any easy but possible.

One of the most popular apps of our times, YouTube has over 2 billion logged users each month. Let us look at some of the core features and functionalities which would build your video sharing application.

Features:

The Search Bar – For a video sharing app, the Search feature is paramount. It should be effective and efficient as that is the number one factor determining the success of your app. Two sure shot ways to develop a favorable search feature are by allowing users to look for videos by title, publisher, and other keywords too while perpetually adding filters to better the user experience on your app.

Video Upload – A drag and drop function allows users to upload videos from local disk, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. With the remote video upload, functionality content from FTP or HTTP locations can also be accessed automatically.

Frames/Thumbnails – While this may seem like a simple feature, its significance cannot be denied. The frame preview feature lets the user change or modifies video thumbnails. Thus, letting users select the perfect first impression through the preview frame on your app. Offering a range of thumbnail choices can also be developed in order to host videos from a local disk or cloud.

Streaming – One of the core features of a video-sharing app is its Live Streaming functionality. This permits users to reach out to their followers, general audience, and other users. This is where you can bring in some new innovations instead of doing what YouTube already does.

Playlist – A video sharing app also has the immense potential of being a user’s favorite music listening app, thus you need a storehouse for it and be able to personalize it.

Social Media – Social Media platforms seem unanimous when it comes to sharing content on other social handles like Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. This is a new way of decreasing the effort to post on every individual site and increase audience engagement and gaining more traffic to their various channels.

Analytics – A robust analytics tool will let you have a thorough understanding of user demographics, viewership status, and real-time performance data. This will also enable you to generate reports on different segments to details pertaining to every content. Thus, this feature tells you how and which features are working for your app.

Security – Adequate security encryptions is mandatory for users to upload audio/video content on the app. You would also require the users to create their accounts or login via other social media platforms or Google.

Other features like responsive design for front end functionality, admin panel for the backend managerial support with data and insights, and finally push notifications for an informed user base. 24:13

The Tech-Stack
Let us look at Google’s YouTube from a technical perspective. Through the years the programming language used in developing the app has changed significantly. The app was built in PHP along with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript in 2005 by the founders. After Google took over, YouTube transformed. The main programming language was changed to Python from PHP.

For just a video sharing platform the PHP program is enough. But as the app grew, PHP started posing a lot of limitations. Unlike its predecessor, Python is much more secure and flexible. Then comes the user experience which can make or mar your app. Invest in a design with a comprehensive layout and intuitive UI. The most common tools are Photoshop, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and JavaScript. Once you are ready with the code for the designed user interface, combine it with the streaming server.

It is recommended to build the app in both iOS and Android systems. For the former use Swift/Objective-C while the latter can be developed on Kotlin/Java. The main languages used today for the app are Python, HTML5, JavaScript, C++, Go, Java, and C.

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