Add background play feature in skytube

Components

Sky tube is an open source android app which is an alternative for YouTube. In sky tube you can watch video you wish and the channels you subscribe to. You can bookmark your videos and also share videos on different platforms. You can also copy the links of the videos and share them and also download the videos as well from apps like snaptube.

Proposal

In skytube you can see a lot of features in it like keep bookmarks and share video and also change orientation based on you liking by keeping it portrait or landscape or anything you like. But there are a few improvements that I would like to see in skytube. The feature that I'd like to see in skytube is switch to background.
Switch to background feature can be used for listening to the audio from the app in the background of it. You can listen to them whilst being outside the app. Unlike the download audio feature you don't need to download the audios. You can just listen to them online.

Mockups / Examples

Here I've presented an example for this feature. Below is how this option should be implemented. By pressing the options icon whilst playing the video this option should popup.

Or it should be mounted near the videos details alongside the like and unlike buttons as can be seen in the image below.

Benefits

The benefits of having this feature implemented are:
The background play as the name suggests will make your video play in the background as an audio. If there is not any visuals in it you can just play the video in background and listen to it while using your phone on different things for different purposes. Or you may just wish to only listen to the audio and prefer not to see the video. You can, in that case, use this background play feature.
Thanks.

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