Version 2.975

This release contains two fixes:

• Fix crash on subscription update
• Do not show separator when neither label is visible in a video cell - this occured when a playlist is displayed

Version 2.974

This release contains bug fixes, improvements on the NewPipe backend integration and lot's of translation improvements - big thanks to the translators and to the contributors !

• Using NewPipe backend for loading the playlists, and the trending videos.
• Update NewPipe backend to support latest YouTube changes.
• Code cleanups, minor optimizations contributed by @okan35 and @TacoTheDank
• Fix crashes in handling user inputs in the search field, and in the 'Enter URL' dialog.
• Fix a couple of possible source of memory leaks
• Added new translations for:
  • Berber - by Hakim Oubouali
  • Danish - by Vidar
• Updated translations for:
  • Swedish by Mattias Münster and Luna Jernberg
  • Portuguese - by ssantos
  • French - by Nathan

Version 2.973

This release contains a couple of small bug fixes, and lot's of translation improvements - big thanks to the translators and to the contributors !

• The NewPipe backend is now the default, so the initial impression of the app will be better.
• Upgrade NewPipeExtractor to the latest, to eliminate parsing bugs
• Preference flags are saved into the backups - by @okan35
• Added menu option to bookmark valid video urls when long pressed - by @atomjack
• Add flags to enable resizing the window for better Samsung DeX experience
• Updated translations:
  • Chinese (Traditional) - by Jeff Huang
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Dutch - by Heimen Stoffels
  • German - by Milo Ivir
  • Hungarian - by Zsombor Gegesy
  • Indonesian - by zmni
  • Norwegian Bokmal - by Allan Nordhøy
  • Portuguese - by ssantos
  • Russian - by Nikita Epifanov
  • Spanish - by Julio Montero
  • Turkish - by Oğuz Ersen

Version 2.972

This release contains lot of small bug fixes, and lot's of translation improvements - big thanks to the translators, (I hope I wrote their name properly). A bit warning, this will be the last release to support Android 4.0, as all the dependencies are moving away from supporting it, so backward compatibility is getting bigger, and bigger problem from the maintenance perspective.

• Better integration with other Android apps
  • Opening Youtube URL's from other apps should work better,
  • SkyTube now can detect better if it's a channel/playlist or video, even on hooktube.com or on invidio.us (or related) sites.
  • Bookmarking works better too (if it's not a video, then the app just opens the channel/playlist)
  • Clicking in the video description on channel or playlist links works too
• UI fixes which caused occasional crashes, due to timing issues.
• Better error messages if the user tries to subscribe to an already subscribed channel, or bookmark an already bookmarked video.
• added more playback speed options - by @okan35
• Restore Android 4.0 compatibility.
• Enable TLS 1.1/1.2 usage for Android 4.1 - 4.4, where it wasn't enabled by default.
• Updated translations:
  • Chinese (Traditional) - by Jeff Huang
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Dutch - by Heimen Stoffels
  • French - by Jeannette Lavoie
  • Hungarian - by Zsombor Gegesy
  • Indonesian - by zmni
  • Norwegian Bokmål - by Allan Nordhøy
  • Portuguese - by ssantos
  • Spanish - by Julio Montero

Version 2.971

In 54 commits, 1697 lines were added, 1088 lines were deleted, the new release contains the following changes:

• Search result now contains playlists and channels among the videos.
• Subscription feed checking displays notification instead of a modal dialog - by @okan35
• Channel list can be filtered - by @okan35
• Hide the Block Channel menu item when the Video Blocker is not enabled. - by @atomjack
• Migrate PreferenceManager to androidx - by @ChemWater
• Implement paging in the bookmark fragment - this will improve the responsiveness of the bookmark
• Add padding and background to make the option menu item more finger-friendly
• Rename values-id folder to values-in to enable Indonesian translations

Version 2.970

• Fix Subscription DB upgrade error
• Add ability to switch brightness and volume control
• Fixing a typo found by Avently, which prevented loading the first video in a page with Youtube API
• Re-enabled image and image button in search hints dropdown.
• Fix paging with NewPipeBackend
• NewPipeExtractor update needed due to Youtube.com change.
• Video playback speed controll added

Version 2.969

• Use NewPipe backend for checking new videos on subscriptions.
• No need to restart the app for an Youtube key change.
• Add checks for network availability before:
  • channel metadata download
  • displaying download menuitem
  • showing the comment panel
• Improve URL parsing, to handle more variant.
• Add a simple menuitem to disable video gestures without leaving the player screen.
• Updated Polish and Hungarian translations

Version 2.968

• Reduce the number of Youtube API calls
• Implement comment fetching with the NewPipe backend
• Fix the repeating search result problem with the NewPipe backend.
• Subscription feed refresh should not force the UI to the head of the list.
• Show error when comment fetching fails due to Youtube API error.

Version 2.967

• Fix crash in Subscription feed retrieval ( #594 )
• Fix multiple, concurrent play, due to ExoPlayer creation
• App is now able to backup (and restore) channelFiltering and searchHistory databases.

Version 2.966

The main driver for this release is implementing a channel cache, which will reduce network usage, and improve offline experience.

• #570 - fix "cannot play video after returning from open with"
• #571 - fix 'configure channel blocking at the subscribe page leading to fatal crash'
• #572 - new policies for downloading videos on mobile network: "Always ask"/"Block"/"Allow"
• #574 - "play video under mobile data" dialog can only be dismissed by double clicking "Play Video"
• #580 - fix exception in DialogUtils.java line 125
• #586 - fix fatal failure on new installations.
• Fixes for the NewPipeExtractor backend
• dependency upgrades
• New Swedish translation.

Thanks for @tingsu for his detailed bug reports!