We have some good news for developers who integrate YouTube videos
into their ActionScript 3 Flash applications: the official YouTube
Chromeless Player API has been updated to natively support
ActionScript 3!
Previous to this release, ActionScript 3 developers had to rely on
wrapper libraries that bridged the gap between the native ActionScript
2 API and their own ActionScript 3 code. We're thrilled that intrepid
developers were able to patch things together on their own and share
their code with the rest of the community. Now that there's official
support for using the chromeless player from ActionScript 3, everyone
should have more time to focus on writing compelling Flash
applications, rather than dealing with the unique issues that cross-
language coding entails.
Please check out our ActionScript 3 documentation (http://
code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference.html), and let us
know what you think of the new API in our developer forum (http://
groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata).
With the launch of ActionScript 3 support, we're officially
deprecating the ActionScript 2 YouTube Chromeless Player API (http://
code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference_as2.html). As per our
YouTube API deprecation policy, detailed in our Terms of Service
(http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/terms.html), we will continue to
operate the ActionScript 2 API for a period of three years (until
October 14, 2012).
Cheers,
-The YouTube API Team