Youtube web view opening on Youtube branding click

[justdvnsh]

When you click on the youtube branding of the youtube player in the app (like the title or youtube logo), the entire youtube webView is opening.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/29144058/158114302-04a497c2-9725-45dc-97c7-f14c4ac04e8c.mov

Potential Solutions and Drawbacks

• Currently we are using Web view to showcase the Youtube videos. It obviously results in smaller apk size, but, we would lesser control over youtube videos.

• We can take a look at this library https://github.com/PierfrancescoSoffritti/android-youtube-player for playing youtube videos.

• This solution would result in increase of app size by around 5MB, but we would much finer control over the youtube videos.

• Second solution could be to actually somehow, intercept the callbacks from the webview, and disable them. Like intercept the clicks on youtube brandings and disable them.

[justdvnsh]

@Gear61 Let me know your thoughts. I'd like to work upon this if assigned.

[Gear61]

Thanks for filing the issue! We are actually going to move off of YouTube entirely soon-ish and just have native video!