NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube) v0.25.0
Requirements: 5.0 and up
Overview: The lightweight YouTube experience for Android.
Do you like watching videos on YouTube but looking for a simple app to do that?
NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions.
Lightweight YouTube frontend that’s supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google’s (proprietary) play-services. NewPipe only parses the YouTube website in order to gain the information it needs.
Main Features:
• YouTube Videos
Simple way to watch videos from the site and use its features.
• Extended Privacy
Does not use the YouTube API nor the Google Play Services.
• Background Player
Use other apps with no hassle while it plays your favourite songs.
• Download Media
Simply download YouTube videos or audio to your device.
• Subscriptions
Never miss new content from your favourite channels.
• History
Go back in time and enjoy your favourites again.
• Open Source
How it works is not a secret. Go and check it on GitHub.
• Free
You get the whole thing for free. No in-app purchases or ads either.
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âž¡ Languages: Full Multi Languages
âž¡ CPU architectures: Universal
âž¡ Screen DPIs: 120dpi, 160dpi, 240dpi, 320dpi, 480dpi, 640dpi
What’s New:
New
  Show toast when no updates are available #8668
  Show subscriber count on video details page #9173
  Download items from the long press menu of queue items #9502
  Allow permanently setting a playlist thumbnail #9523
  Add long press action on hashtags and web links in descriptions #7725
  New card view mode with full width thumbnails #9310
Improved
  Remove the redundant/overlapping toast “Copied to clipboard” for Android 13+ #8961
  Make mini-player close button area larger #8743
  Use smoother bitmap downscaling for thumbnails #8686 #9479
  Rename “Help” to “Fast mode” #9500
  Add hint to improve discoverability of subscription import #9501
  Disable night theme selection if auto theme is not used #9488
  Set compileSdk and targetSdk to 33 (Android 13) #9306 #9671 #9696 #9726, #9758
  Seeking no longer pauses the played stream #9496
  Added icon for “Play All” #9568
  Add language suffix to downloaded subtitle filenames #9499
  Check availability of Samsung DeX only on Samsung devices #9619
  Add “What’s New” to the default main page tabs #9664
  Change “What’s New” icon #9678
  Made channel images in grid lists bigger #9555
  Change “Chapters” icon #9691
  [YouTube] Add support for live links #9725
Fixed
  Fix persistent hover overlay when in desktop/DeX mode or using a mouse/non-touch input #8316
  Only show “Enqueue next” when in the middle of the queue #8883
  [PeerTube] Remove dead Privacy Tools instance #9504
  Crash fix when click “Add to playlist” while the current list is still loading #9521
  Allow using background player when there are no separate audio streams #9562
  Improve screen rotation handling in Open action menu #9135
  Ask for permission when enqueuing in a popup #9653
  Fix removing watched videos from playlist includes currently playing #9445
  Fix displaying multiple empty playlists #9642
  Fix background player stops working when enqueueing playlist at different index #9706
  Fix link clicking and ellipsizing of comments #9631
Localization
  Update translations 1d53389, #9522, #9596, #9688
  Added Odia language to language selector #9651
Development
  Make PendingIntents immutable on Android 6.0 and later #9333
  Use Locale.forLanguageTag() #8870
  Forbid wrong @Nullable and @NotNull annotation imports #9474
  Set image-minimizer to specify image width #9471
  Update Sonarqube to 3.5 #9480
  Use Math.floorDiv() #8810
  Use SparseArrayCompat #8895
  Update LeakCanary to 2.9.1 #9306
  Update Desugaring to 1.1.8, ACRA to 5.9.7 and Android Gradle Plugin to 7.3.1 #9481
  Refactor VideoDetailFragment #8847
  Refactor VideoPlayerUi #9159
  Update RxJava to 3.1.5 and RxAndroid to 3.0.2 #9520
  Use ListAdapter in NotificationModeConfigAdapter #8841
  Use new NPE UTF8 Utils methods #8769
  Clean up Optional-related code #9285 #9663
  Remove Runnable variables for Handlers #8886
  Use WindowCompat #8894
    If you encounter any issue with system UI not behaving properly, this PR will be reverted
  Update desugar_jdk_libs to 2.0.2 and Android Gradle Plugin to 7.4.0 (which requires Android Studio Electric Eel) #9686 #9743
  Fix reproducible builds #9709
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More Info:
https://newpipe.schabi.org
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