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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➡ Languages: Full Multi Languages
➡ CPU architectures: Universal
➡ 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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