Alpha version of YouTube Video Widget, allows you to search videos from YouTube and download them into your local drive. Once you go offline the application automatically aware of the change and switches to offline mode, which allow you to view the downloaded videos.

Application can be deployed on desktops or on a touch screen UMPC as well as future ARM devices that will support AIR 1.5.

Download the application from Adobe AIR Marketplace or from here.

Developed with Flex 4 (Gumbo), Flash Catalyst and AIR 1.5. The framework is Caringorm with the Presentation Model, allows us to easily create a template so the application changes based on platform.

Once you select a video you can download the video. Which will be saved on your local drive and information captured in SQLite database. In fact the application recognize automatically that you went offline.

I made a quick presentation that shows the application capabilities. Take a look at the video below:

The full tutorials and explanation on how to build applications like this one will be available in our new book which will be out in May by APress and can be purchased now for a limited discount price from Amazon.