Howto: PhoneGap & Youtube (API)

Just a quick win... if your target is to show Youtube videos,  full screen, inside a PhoneGap mobile app... just use Youtube's HTML5 embedding possibilities in combination with PhoneGap's InAppBrowser:

var id = "hyZJtN6tl2n";
var ref = window.open('http://www.youtube.com/embed/'+id+'?html5=1', '_blank', 'location=yes');

By adding html5=1 Youtube should be forced to use the new HTML5 <video> tag instead of embedding the marginal, unsecure and old fashioned flash player plugin (which is also not available on Apple devices). For getting additional meta data, e.g. to display, download or build an own player, the GDATA API can be accessed:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/hyZJtN6tl2n?v=2&prettyprint=true&alt=jsonc