Some Android users report seeing a new video player UI in the YouTube app. YouTube’s latest player UI relocates a lot of buttons and shows more information about the video. It also adds a gesture that ...
Android natively supports various video codecs including MPEG-4 SP, H.264 AVC, and H.263. However, your stock Android video player app might not run HEVC files and several other formats if it's old.
Following the announcement last week, the video player, icon, and app-wide redesign is now widely rolling out to YouTube for Android and iOS. All YouTube icons throughout the app have been updated.