How to display thumbnail of YouTube Videos in Android

Question

I writing an app where i want to display a list of YouTube videos. But I want the list to display the video title with some other info but also show a thumbnail of the video

Answer 1

This question is old, but it is still coming in the top Google's search answers, so this us how I did it with the Android YouTube API.

YouTubeThumbnailView thumbnail = findViewById(R.id.thumbnail);
thumbnail.initialize(YOUTUBE_API_KEY, new YouTubeThumbnailView.OnInitializedListener() {

    @Override
    public void onInitializationSuccess(YouTubeThumbnailView youTubeThumbnailView, 
                                        YouTubeThumbnailLoader youTubeThumbnailLoader) {
        youTubeThumbnailLoader.setVideo(youtubeID);
        youTubeThumbnailLoader.setOnThumbnailLoadedListener(new YouTubeThumbnailLoader.OnThumbnailLoadedListener() {

            @Override
            public void onThumbnailLoaded(YouTubeThumbnailView youTubeThumbnailView, String s) {
                //need to release the loader!!!
                youTubeThumbnailLoader.release();
            }

            @Override
            public void onThumbnailError(YouTubeThumbnailView youTubeThumbnailView, 
                                         YouTubeThumbnailLoader.ErrorReason errorReason) {
                //need to release the loader!!!
                youTubeThumbnailLoader.release();
            }
        });
     }

     @Override
     public void onInitializationFailure(YouTubeThumbnailView youTubeThumbnailView, 
                                    YouTubeInitializationResult youTubeInitializationResult) {
     //handle error here
     }
});

YOUTUBE_API_KEY get your api key in here

youtubeID You need to use the video's ID not full URL.

Documentation here.