Google announced the offline version of YouTube

Google announced the offline version of YouTube

Google is on in the Delhi press conference introduced the YouTube special version, targeted at users in developing countries, where internet connection speed is poor. The new app - YouTube Go - you can store videos in mobile device memory and view them offline.



Before downloading the video can be viewed frame by frame preview, and specify the quality, affecting the size of the final file. In addition, YouTube Go will allow to transfer videos to other devices via Bluetooth.

This is not the first attempt to make Google YouTube easily accessible in regions with poor connectivity and expensive Internet traffic. Two years ago, the company has included offline viewing on Android, which caches the video in a smartphone memory, so that after that it can be viewed without an Internet connection. And in June, it was launched function Smart Offline, which automatically downloads the videos selected users in the period, when the cellular data most favorable (eg at night).