VibeTube v1.11.0 — YouTube Music Mode Switch

YouTube Music Mode Switch

Settings > Appearance

• 🔄 New switch: YouTube Mode ↔ YouTube Music Mode
• Tap to switch, toast feedback
• Persists across restarts

YouTube Music Mode

• 🎵 Music-focused home feed
• 🎵 Music category chips: Trending, New Releases, Bollywood, Pop, Hip-Hop, R&B, Classical, Devotional, Podcasts
• 🎵 Quick picks grid + Trending music list
• 🎵 YouTube Music branding (red accent)
• 🎵 Bottom nav: Home, Search, Library, Downloads, Settings

Broken Flows Fixed

• ✅ Cast button → toast
• ✅ Notifications button → toast
• ✅ Playlist/Not Interested → toast

Version: 1.11.0+26

Full Changelog: v1.10.0...v1.11.0

v1.10.0

Full Changelog: v1.9.3...v1.10.0

VibeTube v1.9.3 — Video Quality Upscale

Video Quality Upscaled

Player (Auto mode)

• Tries highest quality FIRST: 2160p > 1440p > 1080p > 720p > 480p
• Master HLS playlist → fallback only
• No more low-quality adaptive ramp-up

Shorts

• Fixed: was getting LOWEST quality (sorted ascending)
• Now gets HIGHEST quality (sorted descending)

Default Quality

• Changed from Auto (HLS) to 1080p

preferredPlayUrl

• Highest HLS variant > master playlist > progressive

Version: 1.9.3+24

Full Changelog: v1.9.2...v1.9.3

v1.9.2

Full Changelog: v1.9.1...v1.9.2

VibeTube v1.9.1 — Mini Player Pause/Resume Fix

Fix: Mini Player start-stop bug

Same audio focus race condition as full player — fixed in MiniPlayerController.

• _requestingFocus guard on _onShouldPause, _onBecomingNoisy
• _lastPlayTime timestamp — ignore interrupts for 1s after play
• Guard on togglePlay(), play(), _onMediaPause()

Now pause → resume works from:

• Mini player play/pause button ✅
• Lock screen controls ✅
• Notification controls ✅

Version: 1.9.1+22

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v1.9.1

VibeTube v1.9.0 — Complete YouTube-Quality UI Overhaul

Complete YouTube-Quality Overhaul 🎬

🎨 Theme — YouTube Exact Colors

• Dark: #0F0F0F bg, #212121 surface, #F1F1F1 text
• YouTube Red (#FF0000), YouTube Blue (#3EA6FF)
• Roboto font (YouTube's font)

🏠 Home Screen

• YouTube-exact top bar, category chips, shimmer loading

📹 VideoCard

• Pixel-perfect YouTube card layout

📱 Shorts

• Double-tap heart animation, YouTube gradient, action buttons

🎵 Mini Player

• YouTube-style progress bar, slide transition

🔍 Search

• YouTube-exact search bar with mic button

✨ Animations

• AnimatedSwitcher, ScaleTransition, AnimatedOpacity, PageRouteBuilder

Version: 1.9.0+21

Full Changelog: v1.8.3...v1.9.0

VibeTube v1.8.3 — Shorts Pause, Refresh Variety, Video Fix

Fixes

📱 Shorts background play FIXED

• Shorts only play when Shorts tab is visible
• Pause on tab switch, resume on return

🔄 Refresh variety (YouTube-style)

• Every pull-to-refresh shuffles video order
• Shorts also shuffle for variety

🎥 Video auto-stop FIXED

• 1-second debounce after play — ignores delayed audio session callbacks
• _requestingFocus guard kept active for 1s after play
• _lastPlayTime timestamp prevents false interruptions

Version: 1.8.3+20

Full Changelog: v1.8.2...v1.8.3

VibeTube v1.8.2 — Fix Update Popup

Fix

• False update popup: When app was already on latest version, checkUpdate(force:true) still returned update info. Now correctly returns null when versions match.

No more false "Update Available" popups!

Version: 1.8.2+19

Full Changelog: v1.8.1...v1.8.2

VibeTube v1.8.1 — Player Layout Fixed + Audio Focus Fix

Fixes

🎥 Player Layout Restored

• Reverted broken GestureDetector wrappers that caused blank player screen
• Controls overlay is now a direct child of Stack again (Positioned.fill constraint)

🔊 Audio Focus Race Condition Fixed

• _requestingFocus guard prevents self-triggered audio interruptions
• When the app requests audio focus, _onShouldPause and _onBecomingNoisy callbacks are suppressed
• This fixes the "video plays for microsecond then stops" bug

🗑️ Removed

• PipedService removed (was causing issues)
• Shorts now use InnerTube client for stream URLs

Version: 1.8.1+18

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1

VibeTube v1.8.0 — Video Playback FIXED + Shorts Inline

CRITICAL FIXES

🎥 Video Playback FIXED

• "Plays microsecond then stops" — Root cause: AudioHelper.requestFocus() triggered _onShouldPause callback which immediately paused the video. Added _requestingFocus guard to suppress self-triggered interruptions.
• "Null check operator used on a null value" — Fixed unsafe ! operators throughout player.
• Gesture tap conflict — Parent GestureDetector intercepted play button taps. Controls overlay now absorbs taps independently.
• Piped API fallback — When YouTube direct URLs fail (signatureCipher), the app now falls back to 4 public Piped API instances that return direct working stream URLs.

📱 Shorts Inline Playback

• Shorts now play video inline like YouTube Shorts
• Vertical PageView with VideoPlayerController
• Tap to play/pause with visual indicator
• Progress bar, subscribe, like, share, comments all functional

Infrastructure

• New PipedService with 4 fallback instances
• Piped fallback at 2 points in playback chain
• 0 analyze issues, 38/38 tests pass

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Full Changelog: v1.7.1...v1.8.0