Release 0.20.10

[TobiGr]

Changelogs

App

New

• [YouTube] Added support for chapters in player controls Add stream segments to player controls #5274
• Added a secondary control panel and tabs to video detail fragment Add a secondary control panel to video detail fragment #4534
• [PeerTube] Added sepia search [peertube] implement sepia search #5257

Improved

• Disable restoring brightness if brightness gesture is disabled disable restoring brightness if brightness gesture is disabled #5283
• Update displayed licenses Update displayed licenses #5066
• Disable sending metrics to Google when using Android System WebView Disable sending metrics to Google when using Android System WebView #5337
• Toggle play/pause with hardware space button in fullscreen player In Fullscreen playback, toggle play/pause with hardware space button #5331
• Add list item to play video on kodi add list item to play video on kodi #5310
• VideoDetailFragment: Don't exit fullscreen on rotation in tablet UI VideoDetailFragment: Don't exit fullscreen on rotation in tablet UI #4939

Fixed

• Fixed URLs with timestamps not being played Fix urls with timestamps not being played #5317
• Fixed null pointer exception in play button method Fix null pointer exception in play button method #5301
• Dynamically get package name, fixing issues with multiple NewPipes installed Dynamically get package name #5221
• Fixed wrong speed indicator in queue activity Merge player classes into a single one #5371
• Fixed crash when no default browser is set and improve share dialogs (on some devices) Fix crash when no default browser is set and improve share dialogs (on some devices) #5187, Fix crash when no browser is present and use an ACTION_CHOOSER intent in the app update notification #5429

Development

• Merge player classes into a single one Merge player classes into a single one #5371
• Use AndroidX Media compat in AudioReactor Use AndroidX Media compat in AudioReactor #5065
• Use Objects.requireNonNull() Use Objects.requireNonNull(). #5254
• Use view binding in VideoPlayer Use view binding in VideoPlayer. #5253 Prevent IllegalArgumentException when closing popup #5442
• Make Localization.relativeTime testable Make Localization.relativeTime testable #5358
• Use view binding in fragments Use view binding in fragments. #4814 Fix the crash that occurs on navigating back to the main fragment. #5417 Use view binding in VideoDetailFragment. #5438 Fix reload feed button does nothing #5430 Fix number being shown instead of corresponding string resource in feed #5463
• Switch to Groupie's view binding module Switch to Groupie's view binding module. #5029
• Extract settings import Extract settings import #5225
• Merge the two Constants files Combine the two Constants files into one file. #5418
• Remove APK testing section from PR template Remove APK testing section from PR template #5284
• Re-add APK testing section to PR template Re-add APK testing section to PR template #5465
• Convert AnimationUtils functions to extension functions Convert AnimationUtils functions to extension functions. #5333
• Convert ExceptionUtils methods to extension functions Rewrite ExceptionUtils methods as extension functions. #4947
• Checkout branch in CI process Checkout branch in CI process #5407

Localization

• Fixed Somali language name Fixes Somali language name #5376
• Added Somali Readme Created Somali Readme #5383
• Add Romanian README Add README.ro.md #5501
• Added Brazilian Portuguese Readme Created Brazilian Portuguese Readme #5397
• Add Japanese translation of README Add Japanese translation of README #5468
• Change "Export" to "Import" in Korean Readme instructions Change "Export" to "Import" in Korean Readme instructions #5250
• Update README.md to include installation methods other than F-Droid Update README.md to include installation methods other than F-Droid #5108

Extractor

New

• comments: add heartedByUploader and extract it for youtube comments: add heartedByUploader and extract it for youtube NewPipeExtractor#510
• [PeerTube] Add sepia search [PeerTube] Implement sepia search NewPipeExtractor#495
• Add durationPerFrame to Frameset Add durationPerFrame to Frameset NewPipeExtractor#507

Improved

• [media.ccc.de] Show conference title in "recent" kiosk TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor@52f3bd1
• [YouTube] Show 360p WebM video streams Un-comment out 360p webm NewPipeExtractor#508
• [media.ccc.de] Recent kiosk: order streams by upload date [media.ccc.de] Recent kiosk: order streams by upload date NewPipeExtractor#504

Fixed

• [YouTube] Fixed player JavaScript URL redirection Fix YouTube player JavaScript URL redirection NewPipeExtractor#497
• [media.ccc.de] Fix NPE in search results if they contain a future talk [media.ccc.de] Fix NPE in search results if they contain a future talk NewPipeExtractor#505

Development

• Mock downloader and mix playlist tests Mock mix pl tests NewPipeExtractor#482 Adjust CI workflow to run tests with mocks NewPipeExtractor#513 Pass on gradle JVM system property to test JVM NewPipeExtractor#514 Add if-else statement to run tests against real website on schedule NewPipeExtractor#516
• Migrate from Travis CI to GitHub Actions Migrate to GitHub actions from Travis NewPipeExtractor#506
• [PeerTube] Fixed tests by changing instance Fix PeerTube tests by changing instance NewPipeExtractor#511
• Ignore all failing tests Ignore all failing tests NewPipeExtractor#512

TODO

• open in browser regression Fix crash when no browser is present and use an ACTION_CHOOSER intent in the app update notification #5429
• open play store regression Fix some things in ShareUtils file and do little improvements #5466
• popup closing Fix popup closing x button animation #5458
• feed number Fix number being shown instead of corresponding string resource in feed #5463
• channel subscribe button Fix channel subscribe button causing crash on closing #5464
• implement update check rate limit Update check is run too often #5467
• update invidious instances Update invidious instances #5479
• view count = 0 in yt music [YouTube Music] Fix extracting search item view/subscriber count when = 0 NewPipeExtractor#528
• minimize on app switch: background setting ignored, opens popup Fix minimize on app switch always opens popup #5502
• update extractor version
• sync translations
• fix stream chapter / segments extraction
• fix tab layout visibility with age restricted videos Fix tab layout visibility with age restricted videos #5563
• description scrolling Fix scrolling in description tab #5460

APK for testing

NewPipe_v0.20.9_RC7.zip

Corresponding PR: #5456

[Stypox]

@nadiration for me it works as expected. Probably your screen is too small to host two columns of grid items. Does everything work as expected if you rotate the device?

[TobiGr]

NewPipe_v0.20.9_RC2.zip includes a fix for a crash that happened when sharing streams to the browser and no browser was installed (e.g. on ANdroid TVs) #5429

[skyGtm]

In popup mode, on dragging the popup to the bottom, the RED close button appears for instant and disappears, close action is also not performed.
In NewPipe version 20.8 (works as expected)

version.20.8.mp4

In NewPipeVersion 20.9_RC2(doesn't work as expected)

version.20.9_RC2.mp4

[Poolitzer]

@Stypox, not sure if thats out of the scope with this release, but what about letting the tab icons vanish or at least make them smaller when scrolling down, and enlarge/letting them reappear when scrolling up? I think that's the default in android apps, at least from my experience. That way you see more of the comments/videos/description without loosing the ability to navigate.

[Stypox]

@skyGtm that seems like to be the correct behaviour. It wasn't working before and 920e560 fixed it. The current expected behaviour is for the button to be visible only when your finger is near it. But I agree that's not the best idea, I'm going to push a fix soon

[triallax]

On my Android 6 device, whenever I try to extract the APK from the ZIP archive, I get the following error:

There was an error extracting the file into "Download".
java.io.IOException: Size mismatch on inflated file: 13151759 vs 13151751

However, it works fine on my Android 10 device.

Edit: downloading the archive directly works. Seems like it won't work when transferring between devices using Bluetooth.

[TobiGr]

I tried to reproduce a different bug and got this:

Exception

• User Action: requested stream
• Request: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg8qflddZrY
• Content Country: DE
• Content Language: de-DE
• App Language: de_DE
• Service: YouTube
• Version: 0.20.9
• OS: Linux Android 9 - 28

Crash log

org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not find videoSecondaryInfoRenderer
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.getVideoSecondaryInfoRenderer(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:914)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.services.youtube.extractors.YoutubeStreamExtractor.getAgeLimit(YoutubeStreamExtractor.java:246)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.extractImportantData(StreamInfo.java:106)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:71)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.stream.StreamInfo.getInfo(StreamInfo.java:64)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.ExtractorHelper.lambda$getStreamInfo$3(ExtractorHelper.java:128)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.util.-$$Lambda$ExtractorHelper$YTHJjScxCJNO1LTCqs3IKy35iyY.call(Unknown Source:4)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleFromCallable.subscribeActual(SingleFromCallable.java:43)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4813)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleDoOnSuccess.subscribeActual(SingleDoOnSuccess.java:35)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4813)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeFromSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeFromSingle.java:41)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5330)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.drain(MaybeConcatArray.java:153)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray$ConcatMaybeObserver.request(MaybeConcatArray.java:78)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe$ElementAtSubscriber.onSubscribe(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:66)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeConcatArray.subscribeActual(MaybeConcatArray.java:42)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Flowable.subscribe(Flowable.java:15753)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.flowable.FlowableElementAtMaybe.subscribeActual(FlowableElementAtMaybe.java:36)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Maybe.subscribe(Maybe.java:5330)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.maybe.MaybeToSingle.subscribeActual(MaybeToSingle.java:46)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Single.subscribe(Single.java:4813)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.single.SingleSubscribeOn$SubscribeOnObserver.run(SingleSubscribeOn.java:89)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Scheduler$DisposeTask.run(Scheduler.java:614)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.run(ScheduledRunnable.java:65)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.schedulers.ScheduledRunnable.call(ScheduledRunnable.java:56)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:301)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)

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[AudricV]

There is something strange when clicking links at the top of a description after the secondary controls PR, see issue #5453.

[Stypox]

@Stypox, not sure if thats out of the scope with this release, but what about letting the tab icons vanish or at least make them smaller when scrolling down, and enlarge/letting them reappear when scrolling up? I think that's the default in android apps, at least from my experience. That way you see more of the comments/videos/description without loosing the ability to navigate.

Currently the tab layout is only visible when the visible part of the tab is at least 96dp (i.e. twice the height of the tab layout itself), so it isn't that much in the way even when the rest of the screen is used up by video player and controls. Anyway, I agree that we should implement Android's default way of handling hiding tab layouts in the future. Though it could be nasty to implement due to the many things that could trigger a scroll.

[Timmy183-ui]

When you set view mode to grid (Settings > Appearance > List view mode) it doesn't really switch to grid but to a large list-like mode. This was working fine before on portrait orientation, now i have the two versions (0.20.8 and 0.20.9 RC1) side by side and it's something with this version because v0.20.8 is working as expected.

List view mode: Grid

Any fix for this? It's not a good implementation of grid view

[brnwlshubh]

On updating the Channel group. App crashes by the following report:-

Exception

• User Action: ui error
• Request: App crash, UI failure
• Content Country: IN
• Content Language: en-GB
• App Language: en_GB
• Service: none
• Version: 0.20.9
• OS: Linux samsung/on7xeltedd/on7xelte:8.1.0/M1AJQ/G610FDDU1CSK2:user/release-keys 8.1.0 - 27

Crash log

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to read from field 'androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatButton org.schabi.newpipe.databinding.ChannelHeaderBinding.channelSubscribeButton' on a null object reference
	at org.schabi.newpipe.fragments.list.channel.ChannelFragment.lambda$getSubscribeUpdateMonitor$8$ChannelFragment(ChannelFragment.java:341)
	at org.schabi.newpipe.fragments.list.channel.-$$Lambda$ChannelFragment$vmiMdrHAJhwZ8mwsJJh23kG8lqY.accept(Unknown Source:6)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.observers.LambdaObserver.onNext(LambdaObserver.java:63)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.observable.ObservableObserveOn$ObserveOnObserver.drainNormal(ObservableObserveOn.java:201)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.internal.operators.observable.ObservableObserveOn$ObserveOnObserver.run(ObservableObserveOn.java:255)
	at io.reactivex.rxjava3.android.schedulers.HandlerScheduler$ScheduledRunnable.run(HandlerScheduler.java:123)
	at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:790)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:164)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7000)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
	at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:441)
	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1408)

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[nadiration]

The popup closing button (x) is gone

[triallax]

@nadiration see #5458.

[TobiGr]

NewPipe_v0.20.9_RC3.zip fixes the popup closing regression and the feed refresh status message.

[brnwlshubh]

NewPipe_v0.20.9_RC3.zip fixes the popup closing regression and the feed refresh status message.

This package has still #5464 crash issue.

[triallax]

@brnwlshubh yes, that's expected, as #5464 has still not been merged.

[alienthief]

@TobiGr could you pull updated translations (weblate) from the last two days before 0.20.9 public release?

[opusforlife2]

@alienthief That's always the last step before release, don't worry.

[alienthief]

@opusforlife2 i know that but since he updated translation from like 5 days ago, i was talking about the most recent ones like two or three days ago

[opusforlife2]

@alienthief What I mean is that the translations will always be synced again just before the release is tagged. Look at the TODO in the OP. It's second last on the list.

[TobiGr]

NewPipe_v0.20.9_RC5.zip

• [YouTube Music] Fix extracting search item view/subscriber count when it equals zero
• Set all default settings at the beginning

[TobiGr]

NewPipe_v0.20.9_RC6.zip fixes a bug that prevented NewPipe to fall back to Google Play Store URL when using InstallApp method (e.g. for Kodi or VLC installation)

[ghost]

Was watching a video with rc6 double tapped to seek, NewPipe crashed, also sometimes unable to change video quality while watching

[AudricV]

NewPipe_v0.20.9_RC6.zip fixes a bug that prevented NewPipe to fall back to Google Play Store URL when using InstallApp method (e.g. for Kodi or VLC installation)

Note that there is a small bug which shows the toast No app on your device can open this if no app can handle the market scheme when the system chooser to open a web browser or the default browser is opened. I fixed it in #5523.

[TobiGr]

NewPipe_v0.20.9_RC7.zip

• Fixed YouTube stream chapters
• Fixed channel subscribe button causing crash on closing
• Reduce requests to NewPipe API when checking for new version
• updated translations

[alienthief]

Since description scrolling is caused by "secondry controls" which many of us don't like plus it took over description's place can we like revert it since it's blocking and seems unsolvable?

[romanstingler]

not per se an issue but it would be nice to have the -rcX in the version number of the app (in about and menu).
furthermore, it would be great to have a selectable testing repo with all the rc versions so the development versions would get updated automatically.

[nadiration]

When opening age-restricted videos by default 'show age-restricted content' is disabled on the app so when you open a restricted video it tells you to enable 'show age-restricted content' on settings, now when you enable that option with a restricted video loaded on the player the menus get overlapped and comments/description don't show up.

To reproduce:

1. Open age-resticted video (any video for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_8ZjT2sO4)
2. The player will tell you to enable age-restricted video
3. Now with the video on the player go to settings and enable show restricted videos Settings > Content
4. Come back to the video and see how the player acts

*Workaround: close the player from the recent apps and reopen the video, it will work as expected.

Context:

[Stypox]

@nadiration could you test #5563?

[Orion983]

Wait I thought it was 0.20.9 wha-

[Orion983]

Is this a joke

[nadiration]

@Stypox the layout problem is gone but could you make the play button to refresh the video since now when you go and enable restricted content on settings and come back to the video it doesn't [auto] refesh and the play button (on the minimized video) does nothing thus requiring you to close the video then you have to find the video again and play.

[romanstingler]

heap dump
canary
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eO5OlgLFAzhBeYjm-BCdxfSOt1lfVKti/view?usp=drivesdk

[Stypox]

@nadiration that's not a regression and as such will not be fixed here

[triallax]

To those wondering why this release was changed to 0.20.10, it's because there was a bug where you can't load more videos in the channel page (#5550), and since this is a big bug and this release was taking a while, we decided to release 0.20.9 with the hotfix for that bug. 0.20.10 has NOT been postponed. It is still going to come soon.

[triallax]

@HTSamurai quoting @Stypox:

Please don't ask, obviously it is releasing soon: it will be released when it will be ready. As you can see at top there are still some TODOs left, which mostly fix regressions, after those it will be released.