Play youtube video in background

I am developing an Android app that suggests the most viewed videos clips in youtube, to play videos I am using the Youtube API for Android:

  @Override
public void onInitializationSuccess(YouTubePlayer.Provider provider, YouTubePlayer youTubePlayer, boolean b) {

    Log.d(TAG , "onInitializationSuccess(Provider, YouTubePlayer, boolean ) - Ini ");

    if(!b) {
        youTubePlayer.cueVideo(getIntent().getStringExtra("VIDEO_ID"));
    }

    Log.d(TAG , "onInitializationSuccess(Provider, YouTubePlayer, boolean ) - Fi ");

}

I would like to add an other feature to the app, I want to detect if the user is looking to the screen if not, I want to send the video to the background and keep playing the music, is this possible ?

Any help is very much appreciated.

Solution

It's only to youtube red users possible to play youtube videos in background (see here). You can check if they have this in the api, but I don't think so.

Also it is possible to play youtube videos in background if you open the desktop version of youtube in a browser. Maybe you can make use of this by opening the correct link in a webview in background ;-) ...