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Levyra 2.3.18

Highlights

Levyra 2.3.18 focuses on reliable playback, safer updates, faster access to music, and a more consistent Android experience. The release strengthens YouTube Music recovery, introduces Levyra Nexus as a shared reliability layer, expands chart and track actions, and improves accessibility without changing existing libraries, downloads, or preferences.

What's New

Resilient playback and network routing

  • Added verified YouTube Music fallback paths for cases where a primary request or media endpoint is unavailable.
  • Introduced adaptive route health tracking so temporary failures do not unnecessarily disable healthy playback routes.
  • Improved denial handling and retry balance to avoid repeated requests while still recovering when service access resumes.
  • Updated embedded player configurations used by the local decoder.
  • Hardened fallback selection so incompatible or unverifiable media alternatives are rejected.

Levyra Nexus reliability core

  • Added the dependency-light Levyra Nexus module for shared network, playback, and update decisions.
  • Routed Android network intelligence through Nexus while keeping platform-specific behavior inside the app.
  • Added typed results and explicit transition semantics for predictable recovery behavior.
  • Introduced route-health scoring with tests for success, transient failure, denial, and recovery.
  • Connected update selection to Nexus so only compatible, verifiable release artifacts can be offered.

Charts and discovery

  • Added YouTube Music chart feeds with official artwork resolution.
  • Improved country-aware chart discovery and playlist shortcuts.
  • Added faster access to Top 50 playlists from the relevant Home and Library surfaces.
  • Refined chart parsing and playable-track matching with additional regression tests.
  • Synced extractor player data with the current supported playback configuration.

Track actions and artist presentation

  • Added a long-press action sheet to tracks in the Personal Orbit shelf.
  • Added consistent actions for opening albums, artists, playback, queue, favorites, and related destinations.
  • Improved artist imagery and presentation consistency across Home, Library, and detail surfaces.
  • Ensured the track action sheet honors the reduced-animation preference.
  • Improved semantics, focus behavior, and accessible labels for assistive technologies.

Settings and usability

  • Reorganized settings into a clearer category hub.
  • Improved navigation and grouping for playback, appearance, privacy, storage, and advanced options.
  • Refined labels and localized copy across supported languages.
  • Improved Android Auto library behavior and several navigation edge cases.

Reliability and security

  • Update artifacts now require a valid version, supported ABI, HTTPS download URL, SHA-256 digest, and compatible package metadata.
  • Update comparison rejects malformed semantic versions and unsafe fallback assets.
  • Network routing records failures conservatively and avoids treating one denied request as permanent route failure.
  • Playback transition behavior is covered by dedicated Nexus tests.
  • No analytics, advertising, or developer telemetry was added.
  • F-Droid builds continue to disable the GitHub self-update prompt and use F-Droid metadata for updates.

Fixes

  • Fixed fallback behavior that could select an incompatible YouTube media candidate.
  • Fixed request-denial health accounting that could penalize clients too aggressively.
  • Fixed album lookup consistency in the new track action sheet.
  • Fixed animation behavior in the action sheet when reduced animations are enabled.
  • Fixed several chart parsing and playable-track matching edge cases.
  • Fixed update selection accepting artifacts without complete verification data.
  • Fixed ABI inference and semantic-version handling for release assets.
  • Fixed accessibility gaps in track actions and related navigation.

Notes

This Android release includes the application-side integration required by Levyra Nexus. The separately versioned Windows application remains on its own release channel and is not rebuilt or republished by this Android version bump.

Versioning

  • Version name: 2.3.18
  • Version code: 2031800

Validation

  • Android release metadata, Gradle fallbacks, documentation badges, user agents, and Fastlane changelogs were aligned to version 2.3.18.
  • The release guard verifies version-name, version-code, tag, release-notes, signing, and publishing consistency.
  • The signed GitHub APK and the reproducible F-Droid APK are produced from the same commit by the protected release workflow.
  • Nexus route, playback-transition, and update-verification behavior is covered by automated tests.
  • Existing signing identity and GitHub/F-Droid update compatibility remain unchanged.

Upgrade notes

No migration is required. Existing libraries, favorites, downloads, playback state, and settings remain compatible after updating. GitHub installations continue to receive the signed GitHub release; once the F-Droid metadata is merged, F-Droid installations receive the corresponding reproducible build through F-Droid.

Final note

Levyra 2.3.18 makes playback and updates more dependable while bringing faster chart access, richer track actions, and a cleaner, more accessible experience.

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