Question

Explain any android application in detail and on your own words

it should include the purpose, security features and you suggest to improve it

Answer 1

A detailed explanation of an android application, its purpose, security features, and suggestion to improve it:

YouTube App:
Its purpose and uses:
* It is an android app developed by Google LLC.
* It is their official and proprietary app.
* It comes under the video players and editors category of apps.
* It is an entertainment, educational, training, marketing platform app.
* One can watch videos, listen to audios, share them, collaborate with one another liking and disliking videos, commenting about the videos, etc.
* It is the editor's choice app, and hence, also accounts to many users downloading, installing, and using it worldwide.
* It has currently 45,293, 807 registered users using it.
* It has a rating of 4.5 stars.
* Also, it contains Ads for the sponsors, companies, merchants, vendors, etc to stream ads of their products and services for the users, thus providing them potential buyers or customers. It benefits the sellers and even the buyers.
* The app is compatible with most of the devices especially, Android devices, Apple devices, and others.
* The app's logo itself is meaningful, obvious, informative, and helpful.
* The app provides the total number of users who watched a video so far.
* It has the "save" option to save a video on the device to watch it later when there is no data bandwidth available, when the Internet is down, the website itself is down, or when there is no voice network, or when there is slow Internet data connection.
* The registered users can add a video to playlists, create their own playlists of their desired name.
* People or users can subscribe to favorite channels so they are notified the first as soon as a video is uploaded on youtube servers by its content creator. This requires clicking on a "bell" icon to be notified of any news, newsletters, or any updates about the video or the channel.
* Also, it lists the number of channel subscribers for record purpose or for the user to know the channel's popularity and its large set of fans.
* Also, the app offers a "Live Chat" facility for the users to comment, ask questions, share information, ideas, suggestions, etc on live stream videos.
* The app lets the content creators edit and upload videos.
* It has a "Report" option to report any misuse of the video, incorrect information provided in the video content if it is adult content,
* The app displays the video content's details such as, the number of minutes it would play, the author, summary about the video content, annotations, the date it was uploaded, number of views, number of likes and dislikes, number of comments, a small thumbnail of the video itself, etc.
* The app is meant for phones and tablets.
* The app shows and streams the current, real-time, and trending videos the world is watching.
* The app has videos from music videos, gaming, entertainment, news, movies, and more.
* One of its purposes is also to show the personally recommended videos for the users based on their account details. user previous activities, and user's demographic.
* Its purpose is also to provide users the capability to control, administer, and manage their youtube account details, settings, privacy, security, features, and even the app's settings.
* The apps let users cast a video to their TV.
* Its purpose is also for the users be able to search for videos quickly and easily based on the keywords they type in.
* It also lets users purchase movies and other video contents within the app.
* It provides a preview option to preview videos before users download or watch them.

Security features:
* All the video content played are secured as they can be accessed through SSL (the "Https") or padlock in the address bar for the website or app. The videos are thus, encrypted. The information accessed is private as well.
* It also provides parental guidance features to be enabled and disabled appropriately.
* Users can control the data or the videos they watch or even the videos they edit and upload.
* They have the privacy option as well to make a video go public or make it private.
* The users can make their likes, liked videos, comments, shared videos information be public or simply remain private to themselves.
* Google notifies of any security updates or patches to be applied which can be download and updated accordingly by the users.
* The app has the "Restricted Mode" option to enable it to avoid, block inappropriate, pornographic, violent, gruesome, abuse videos from showing up on the app based on certain algorithms it uses in the background.
* Users can manage what they share on YouTube, giving them privacy and security, thus letting them choose who sees their liked videos, saved playlists, and subscriptions. They can make all these be private to only themselves.
* It has purchase verification feature enabled, for purchases and later billing and payments, as users will be asked to verify his/her account for YouTube purchases.
* You will be asked to verify your account for YouTube purchases.

Suggestion to improve it:
* There should be only one Youtube app available for users with the fully loaded features or with minimal and yet important and security features as light application.
* It should have the option to ward off any advertisements, pop-ups, notifications, etc.
* It has an "Audio" section like they now have for videos, trending, subscriptions, YouTube movies, Gaming, Live, etc, so users can only listen to audio content or video contents removing the videos in them, but playing only audios. This could be useful for listening to any podcasts, audiobooks, chats, talks, music, news, etc on the go. This also reduces the bandwidth usage by the users.
* The app should not delete or remove the download videos for "Watch Later" purpose for any reason from the device. It should not re-download the same already downloaded videos.