New features
- Add a local media library (play local on-device media)
- Add new logo #605 by @AnharHussainMiah
- Add new music recognizer feature (Based on Metrolist's implementation see https://github.com/MetrolistGroup/Metrolist)
- Add custom mark as watched threshold settings
- Add bottom navbar scroll events toggle
- Add queue/playlist autoplay toggle
- Add shorts search tab
- Add new video ambient mode
- Add shorts UI customizations
- Add new native local cross-platform sync
- Add default codec selection for downloads #675
- Add hide music artwork option #639
- Add channel sorting options in subscriptions (default, name A–Z, recently updated) #498
- Add new vetrical video fullscreen drag gesture
- Add community posts support
- Add playlist loop and shuffle actions
- Add app widgets
Improvements
- Improve media notification handling #577
- Improve video player settings sheet positioning #572
- Improve double tap seek gesture #520
- Add remove button "X" on continue watching shelf's cards
- Improve SABR implementation
- Bump NewPipeExtractor to v0.26.3 and set it as primary source with native SABR fallback
- Bump Media3/ExoPlayer to 1.6.1 for more reliable background playback notifications
- Apply default quality settings to live streams #576
- Add a full list of audio languages to the preferred audio language setting #580
- List all available captions, including auto-translated tracks
- Improve AV1 codec handling
- Improve mark as watched percentage
- Add new share context toggle
- Add toggle to show/hide overlay #604
- Add a delay config for autoplay #620
- Improve Emojis handling in live chat #617
- Improve chapters container #588
- Improve player Lock mode #619
- Improve player overlays and icons symmetry #654 #634
- Improve player drawer handling #659
- Update download settings screen's dialog heights #648
- Add support for all Youtube Music, piped and invidious Url formats
- Add comment drawer in landscape #644
- Video Quality selection menu redesign #660
- Improve upcoming videos reminder #470
- Improve volume gesture and rotation handling
- Improve Theme color schemes and add Theme Variants (Light, Dark, AMOLED)
- Refine the subscriptions feed cards to match the home layout #678
- Onboarding screen redesign
- Faster playback startup
- Library screen redesign
Fixes and stability
- Fix Crashes from missing media notification provider #578
- Fix missing metadata on come live streams #574
- Fix video player stuck in a 403 retry loop #573
- Fix music audio equilizer settings saving issues
- Fix out-of-memory crashes when refreshing or importing large subscription lists #603
- Fix lag when the bottom navigation bar hides or shows while scrolling
- Fix playback crashes
- Fix missing audio tracks
- Fix "Failed to parse video data" errors
- Fix videos playing in the wrong (AI-dubbed) audio language on some networks by always preferring the original audio track
- Fix missing Shorts metadata
- Fix missing playlist videos metadata
- Fix icon backup crashes
- Fix low-quality thumbnails in the subscriptions feed #678
- Fix custom player brightness leaking into PiP and the rest of the app #679
Engine
- Improve measurements foundation, add evaluation harness and deterministic scorers
- Imrove correctness and clean dead interest profile
- Improve Signal integrity, ranking and impressions
- Introduce related-graph for improved feed quality
- Improve feed quotas to 40/25/25/10 instead of previous 50/40/10
- Fix scalar relevance dilution
- Improve persona handling, and remove novilty cliff and filter bubble
- Improve engine performace and avoid over-supression
Contributors
AnharHussainMiah