BeamTube 1.0.6

• Reload a list from the tabs on the TV. With the focus on the open tab (Subscriptions, Recommended, Explore, Playlists or History), press OK and the list reloads, showing empty cards until the new one arrives. Before, you had to hold OK on the tab, and Explore gave no sign that anything was happening. On the phone, pulling down still reloads, as before.
• The YouTube button keeps working after an update. Each time BeamTube was updated, Android stopped its Accessibility service and didn't always start it again, sometimes for hours, so the YouTube button on the remote opened YouTube until something else made Android look again. Now BeamTube checks after an update, when the TV starts and whenever you open it, and asks Android to bring the service back if it's on in the settings but not running.
• Same focus on every row of the TV Settings. The highlighted row used to grow past the edges of its card, so the last row of each group (or a group with a single row) looked different from the others, with the card's corners showing under it. Now the highlight stays inside the card and looks the same on every row.

Full changelog: v1.0.5...v1.0.6

BeamTube 1.0.5

• Topic suggestions stay where they are. On the topics screen (first launch, or Settings > Topics > "Choose from suggestions"), picking a suggestion used to make it wider, pushing the next ones down to another line, so the list kept shifting as you picked. Now every suggestion keeps its size whether it's picked or not, on the TV and on the phone.
• Fuller lines of suggestions. Each line now reaches the right edge, with the extra space shared among its suggestions, instead of leaving a gap on the right. The last line stays as it is.

Full changelog: v1.0.4...v1.0.5

BeamTube 1.0.4

• TV Settings now explain the YouTube button on the remote. A new "YouTube button on the remote" section says whether BeamTube's Accessibility service is on, whether the button has been learned yet, and opens Android's Accessibility settings directly, so you no longer have to find that screen yourself. If a TV doesn't have it, the general settings open instead. The same service lets sleep mode turn off the TV.
• Sleep mode brightness now covers the whole app. At 50, 25 or 10%, the player controls and the lists dim to the same level as the video, so coming back to the list at night doesn't blind you. At 0% the video goes dark and everything else stays at 10%, so you can still find your way. As before, it lasts until you close the app.
• On the TV, the timeline waits for OK. Left and right move the point and its thumbnail without jumping; press OK to go there. Move up or down, press Back or let the controls hide, and the video stays where it was.
• A bigger logo on the TV home screen. The light, the beam and the name now fill more of the BeamTube card, instead of sitting small in the middle.

Full changelog: v1.0.3...v1.0.4

BeamTube 1.0.3

• Blocking a channel now reaches your YouTube account. Besides hiding the channel in BeamTube, blocking also sends YouTube's own "Don't recommend channel", so YouTube stops recommending it everywhere you're signed in: on your other devices, in the official app and on the website. YouTube only offers that request on recommended videos, so it goes out right away when the channel is in your Recommended, or the next time YouTube recommends it.
• The blocked list belongs to each device, and BeamTube now says so. The notice and Settings > Blocked channels explain it, and each blocked channel shows whether YouTube already got the request. Unblocking in BeamTube doesn't undo it on YouTube.

Full changelog: v1.0.2...v1.0.3

BeamTube 1.0.2

• On TVs, the BeamTube card is back on the home screen. The banner had a malformed number that Android refused to open outside the app, so the launcher had nothing to show.
• On TVs, the topics screen no longer cuts off the top of a suggestion in the first row when it's focused.

Full changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2

BeamTube 1.0.1

• On phones and tablets, the note that explains Explore no longer pops up on Recommended. It appears only when you open Explore.

Full changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

BeamTube 1.0.0

BeamTube 1.0 is here.

New in 1.0

• Pick your topics on first launch. A new screen offers more than 40 topics to see more of (documentaries, history, engineering, sleep and relaxing videos…) and to see less of (news, gaming, celebrity gossip…). There are no preset topics anymore: you start from what you choose, and you can come back any time in Settings > Topics.
• English, Portuguese and Spanish. The app follows your device's language, or you can choose one in Settings > Language.
• When a video ends, BeamTube shows a few suggestions (the next one from the list you came from, one from the same channel, and related videos that follow your topics) with Back already focused. If you don't pick one, it goes back to your list after 15 seconds. Choose what happens in Settings > When a video ends: show suggestions, go back, play a suggestion, or stay on the video. Playlists still follow the player's "Then play", and with the sleep mode on, the video just stops (or the TV turns off) as before.
• On TV, Settings use the full width of the screen, and the tabs always fit on one line next to the logo, whatever the language or text size.
• A README that explains what BeamTube is and how it differs from the official app.
• MIT License, with the licenses of every library inside the app listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md and shipped in the APK.

A new look

• A new icon (a beam of light through a gap), a new TV banner, and the full logo on the TV's top bar and the sign-in screen.
• The Outfit font everywhere, with a single type scale for TV, phones, tablets and the player.

Faster, and never a black screen

• From the moment the player opens, you see the video's thumbnail and a loading spinner until the first frame.
• The first video after opening the app starts much sooner: the engine gets ready in the background as soon as your lists appear.
• On TV, when the focus rests on a video for a couple of seconds, BeamTube gets it ready so it opens faster when you press OK.
• Captions no longer delay the start of a video.

Keep listening

• The video keeps playing with the phone's screen off, as audio only, and playlists keep going, with the sleep mode limits. Media controls appear on the lock screen and in the notification.
• A floating mini player when you leave the app while a video is playing (Android 8 and newer).
• Subscriptions refresh by themselves when you come back after 10 minutes or more, with the new videos on top.
• On TV, turning the TV off or leaving the app closes the player, so you come back to your list instead of a black screen. The video still resumes where you left off.
• The player shows how long ago the video was published.
• "Go to channel" works everywhere, including in Recommended.
• Video titles on TV cards are a little smaller, so more of the title fits.

Full changelog: v0.6.2...v1.0.0

BeamTube 0.6.2

• Automatic captions appear in blocks of two lines instead of rolling up line by line.
• On TV, pressing down from the last row of controls (or up from the first) hides them right away.

Full changelog: v0.6.1...v0.6.2

BeamTube 0.6.1

• The YouTube button on the TV remote opens BeamTube. The app learns your remote's button code by itself, through its Accessibility service.

Full changelog: v0.6.0...v0.6.1

BeamTube 0.6.0

• A Subscribe button on channel pages.
• Resume where you left off, on every device.
• On TV, moving up to the tabs stops on the open tab instead of switching pages.
• On TV, captions no longer disappear when the controls hide.
• On TV, left and right on the timeline move 10 s, and 4K videos start faster (the first seconds in up to 1080p).

Full changelog: v0.5.9...v0.6.0