YouTube is arguably one of the best online video streaming sites on the planet with billions of views daily. But most often we all love to have offline copies of our favorite videos to view them without internet connection, this can be achieved in several ways but my app of choice when it comes to downloading videos from YouTube on my android device is TubeMate . 

TubeMate is a very friendly app with it's easy to understand user Interface and fast download capability. The latest version of this application now supports video downloading from almost any site that does video streaming like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, DailyMotion and several others. Its a really handy app to have on your android device.

lets see how we can begin using this app in a few easy steps.

Step 1: Download TubeMate from uptodown.com

Step 2: when prompted, permit the allow installation of apps from unknown source option since the application is not an official google play store app.

Step 3: open the application, the home page will display the mobile version of YouTube, now type in your video search query or you can simply copy the link of your desired video and paste it on the address bar (where m.youtube.com/ is placed)

Step 4: Click on your desired video 

Step 5: Click on the download button and allowing parsing of the video to complete 

Step 6: After Parsing is complete, select your preferred video size bearing in mind that the larger a video is, the higher its quality.

Step 7: confirm that download of your video has began by checking on the notification area of your device. Allow the download(s) to complete then go to your videos folder and view it from there.

Step 8: congratulations! you now have a local copy of your favorite video, you can begin playing it on your device at any time.

Note: for other sites like Facebook, Instagram and others, simply copy the link of the video from the site and paste it on the address bar of the TubeMate app and follow steps 5 to 7.

Source: https://techsolutionsng.com/threads/how-to-download-youtube-videos-on-your-android-device.94/

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