Posted by, Reto Meier

Starting today, the Android Developers, Chrome Developers, and Google Developers YouTube channels will host the videos that apply to each specific topic area. By subscribing to each channel, you will only be notified about content that matches your interests.

The Google Developers YouTube channel has been bringing you content across many platforms and product offerings to help inspire, inform, and delight you. Recently, we’ve been posting a variety of recurring shows that cover many broad topics across all of our developer offerings, such as Android Performance Patterns, Polycasts and Coffee With A Googler.

As we produce more and more videos, covering an ever increasing range of topics, we want to make it easier for you to find the information you need.

This means that for the Android Developers Channel, you will get content that is more focused to Android, such as Android Performance Patterns. Similarly, the Chrome Developers Channel will host more web focused content, such as Polycasts, HTTP203, Totally Tooling Tips, and New in Chrome. The Google Developers Channel will continue to broadcast broader Google Developer focused content like our DevBytes covering Google Play services releases and our Coffee With A Googler series.

We look forward to bringing you lots more video to inspire, inform, and delight -- to avoid missing any of it, you can subscribe to each of our YouTube channels using the following links, also be sure to turn notifications on in YouTube’s settings (more info here) so that you can get updates as we post new content:

Posted by Alex Danilo, Developer Advocate

When you develop applications for Google Cast, you’re building a true multi-screen experience to ‘wow’ your users and provide a unique perspective. Part of hitting that wow factor is making the app enjoyable and easy to use.

While designing the Google Cast user experience, we performed a huge amount of user testing to refine a model that works for your users in as many scenarios as possible.

The video below gives a quick explanation of the overall user experience for Google Cast enabled applications.

We’ve also produced some targeted videos to highlight important aspects of the core Google Cast design principles.

The placement of the Cast icon is one of the most important UX guidelines since it directly affects your users familiarity with the ability to Cast. Watch this explanation to help understand why we designed it that way:

Another important design consideration is how the connection between your application and the Google Cast device should work and that’s covered in this short video:

When your users are connected to a Google Cast device that’s playing sound, it’s vital that they can control the audio volume easily. Here’s another video that covers volume control in Cast enabled applications:

To get more detailed information about our UX design principles, we have great documentation and a convenient UX guidelines checklist.

By following the Google Cast UX guidelines in your app, you will give your users a great interactive experience that’ll wow them and have them coming back for more!

Join fellow developers in the Cast Developers Google+ community for more tips, tricks and pointers to all kinds of development resources.