Rejected from the Play Store

[poornerd]

I am using this in an ionic hybrid app, and it got rejected for this reason:

REASON FOR REJECTION:Violation of the Prohibited Actions provision of the Content Policy.

After a regular review, we have determined that your app enables background playing of YouTube videos, which is a violation of the YouTube API Terms of Service:

“Your API Client will not, and You will not encourage or create functionality for Your users or other third parties to: (8) separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;”

I am playing the video simply, like this: <youtube-video video-id="videoId" player="yt_video" player-vars="playerVars"></youtube-video>

Does anyone know what I need to do to avoid being rejected?

[AtomSub]

Did you ever figure this out?

I've added an event listener for state change, and when a user changes tabs or selects a different page from the side menu, it pauses the player.

Note: the following code is placed within a separate event listener I have that fires when the player is playing.

 $scope.$on('$stateChangeStart',
            function (event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams, options) {
                console.log('statechanged');
                player.stopVideo();
            });

[RogerSchmidlin]

I have the same problem. I got a response from the google team: "To be more specific, once you exit out of your application the video still plays in the background on the device. This is a violation of our content policy."

I cannot reproduce this behavior. My app always stops the video when losing focus. It seems that they detect something, hidden to my app.

[poornerd]

I gave up... for now. But I would still love to figure it out. The App is ready except for the video!

[brandly]

have you seen this issue?

maybe you could listen for a blur event on window, and with a player reference, pause the video

[mattspaulding]

I can get the player to stop the video just fine onClick, but it will not work onPause. I know the onPause is firing when user presses the home button, but the player will not stop.

[RogerSchmidlin]

Make sure you assign a blank page or the original url to your embedded video webview onPause. The WebView will keep playing otherwise.

[JoxieMedina]

Hi everyone, for those who have rejected them from the Play Store for "YouTube background play when the screen is off." or because the player still playing in background I solved with the following: When the player is ready I assign the player to a root scope variable:

$scope.$on('youtube.player.ready', function ($event, player) {
  $rootScope.YTPlayer = player;
});

and then i just listening the onPause of the android life cycle and stop de video:

document.addEventListener("pause", function() {
  if ($rootScope.YTPlayer) {
    $rootScope.YTPlayer.stopVideo();
  }
}, false);

Greetings !

[ghost]

@JoxieMedina Where exactly do you place this code?

[JoxieMedina]

Hi @Darksyntax the first one is placed in the controller, in were you use the player, and the second one is placed in the run function in the app.js file I hope this was useful :+1:

[ghost]

@JoxieMedina I hope it will be I followed this unrelated youtube solution for ionic and YouTube and it did not have this piece and breaks the background playing rule : https://github.com/hughred22/Ionic2-Angular2-YouTube-Channel-App

[JoxieMedina]

@Darksyntax Umm, my solution is for ionic 1, but the concept will be the same, try it and let me know if it works for ionic 2 , you can print logs before submit to the play store, if you can´t make it works let me know to try it in an ionic 2 project.

[ghost]

@JoxieMedina No, I couldn't Make it work. I feel super lost.

[JoxieMedina]

Ok @Darksyntax let try and I keep you in touch 👍

[ghost]

Thanks!

[JoxieMedina]

Hi @Darksyntax its ready, check out my fork : https://github.com/JoxieMedina/Ionic2-Angular2-YouTube-Channel-App and also I made a pull request to the original repository with the solution functional