NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube) v0.25.2 [Color Mod]

05/08/2023

NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube) v0.25.2

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.

★★★ MOD ★★★

NewPipe Teal:

Replaced the red color with turquoise (teal).

NewPipe Black:

Replaced red with black. To completely ‘blacken’ the interface, you need to use a black theme.

NewPipe Blue:

With blue tones

Based on the mod from Alex.Strannik, for which we thank him very much!

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What’s New:

Important fixes

● [YouTube] Fixed the recent issue where videos would abort playing because of HTTP 403 errors TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1084

● The issue happened because YouTube is removing the effectiveness of the previous workaround (i.e. using player parameters of Stories and the start of the Shorts ones) used to get streams from the Android client.

● Like for the previous workaround, the new one used (which, at the moment of publishing the release, is the only known one) to fix the issue can break at any time.

● As stated in the changelog of 0.24.1, if you see this error again and you have the ability to block network requests to specific domains for apps on your device, you can block the youtubei.googleapis.com domain to work around this issue.

● However, this has a few downsides:

◎ the 720p video stream with audio (used for external players) will be not available on musical contents;

◎ the 48kbps M4A audio stream and the 144p 3GPP video stream will be not available;

◎ the rewind duration of livestreams will be limited to 30 seconds at most, instead of 1 hour.

● Some users reported player crashes or black screen on some devices, especially Android TVs. In some cases this was caused by media tunneling not being properly implemented by the manufacturer.

◎ Such feature now is disabled by default on more known unsupported devices! #10122

◎ In case you still experience similar issues, try to manually disable media tunneling from Settings -> Video and audio -> ExoPlayer settings -> Disable media tunneling, and report to us if your device needs to be blacklisted automatically. You may want to try the other ExoPlayer settings switches, too.

Known issues/regressions which are not fixed with this update

DO NOT OPEN NEW ISSUES FOR THEM BUT FOLLOW THE LINKED ONES INSTEAD!

● [YouTube] No streams are returned in some playlists: YouTube returns an unsupported UI by the extractor when there are only shorts in a playlists: see TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1077 more details.

● Player notification actions set from app player notification settings are not used on Android 13 and above: this is related to targeting Android 13/API 33 or higher: apps cannot completely personalize media notifications: see #9764 for more details.

Changelog

This version also includes the changes from NewPipe Extractor version v0.22.7.

New

● Allow setting volume and brightness gestures on any side of the screen #9708

● Add an ExoPlayer settings page #8875 #10122

● Add support for multiple audio tracks #9937 #10230

● Add support for displaying main-tabs at the bottom of the screen #9719

Improved

● Add whitelist to only retrieve supported YouTube itags/streams #9748

● [YouTube] Improve download speed #9948

● [PeerTube] Handle links to the instance “peertube.stream” #10141

● Fix a memory leak in the player #10232

● Disable media tunneling by default on more known unsupported devices #10122

Fixed

● [PeerTube] Fix uploader and subchannel avatars being swapped and disable loading thumbnail message failure on content details page #10066

● Fix crash after feed update #10229

● Fix no video in player when switching to main player from playlist view #10195

Localization

● Update translations #10074

● Add new language ߒߞߏ / N’Ko (nqo) to the language chooser #10042

● Translate README into new languages and update a few translations #9421 #9897 #10240 #10250

● Add Uchinaguchi translation #10250

Development

● Remove jsoup files from APK #10004

● Update to Kotlin to 1.8.20 and AndroidX Core to 1.10 and switch to AndroidX’s PendingIntentCompat #10021

● Upgrade Gradle and AGP from 7.x to 8.x and use Java 17 #10035 #10067

● Update ACRA to 5.10.1 and Checkstyle to 10.12.1 to fix a dependency vulnerability #10200

● Update screenshots #10213

● Add support for new GitHub assets URLs in image minimizer workflow & minimize images in PR descriptions #10166 #10233

● Add link to wiki page for APK download #10219

● Clean up AlertDialogs #10223

● Update LeakCanary library #10085 #10232

● Add database test for SubscriptionManager #8456

● Update AndroidX Room library #10235

● Use Okio 3.4.0 explicitly to fix a vulnerability #10281