YouTube for Android is testing a redesign of the miniplayer that serves as an in-app picture-in-picture (PiP).
Today, the YouTube miniplayer is docked to the bottom bar. The video — which is cropped and pretty short — appears at the left with the name and channel after that, while the play and close buttons are at the right.
The new design looks like a picture-in-picture window. It lets you browse YouTube, while still watching the video.
This rectangular card features rounded corners that cut into the video and has the play/pause button flanked by 10-second rewind/skip. The background for the controls is white or dark depending on the theme. (It’s a bit distracting and an Ambient mode effect here would be cool.)
Notably you can resize this new miniplayer video to take up the entire width of the screen. Drag the rectangle, like picture-in-picture, to move it around. To close, tap the ‘x’…
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