A Twitch Streamers Best Friend
Streaming Yorkie is a tool designed to help Twitch streamers to efficiently follow & unfollow other streamers. The tool tracks & offers a better overview of followers, following, unfollowed & F4F. After your stream any VOD (Video On Demand) can be seen & exported to Youtube in our VODs Overview. Automatically follow, unfollow, F4F, lurk & export VODs to Youtube simply by installing and configuring Streaming Yorkie. Share that you are AutoFollowing to our Discord community & gain more followers. Helps build a bigger community, simplifies/automates communication, become an affiliate or partner faster & free up time to stream more. Watch multiple streams at once with Multi View and cast it to a TV. Lurk your favourite streamers with minimum possible network data usage (audio only & chat) & increase their viewer count. Increase channel points & chances of drops or gifted subs. Add, remove and re-prioritize hosting streamers on your AutoHost list. Use our Discord to get others to to follow or lurk and gain more viewers. Use the F4F-L4L-H4H Channel.
Currently it is in an Alpha state. It could be that a Bug may appear or the app behaves in an unexpected manner. Please report any problems, suspicions or confirmations to help improve Streaming Yorkie for everyone.
The code is Open Source, contains no costs & no advertisements are involved. It is a gift back to a great community who I will continue to support for free. The option to support us and gain extra benefits such as Follows or Lurks is available as in-app purchases and subscriptions
Streaming Yorkie communicates exclusively with the Twitch API, Twitch Website, Twitch Multi View & our Discord A login is required to be able to utilize your Twitch data. Passwords are not seen or saved, rather a unique Token given by Twitch is used after the login. This ensures that your account is as safe as can be. All data is saved locally & only you have access to it. VOD exports are done by Twitch, they are not downloaded & uploaded to Youtube by Streaming Yorkie. This ensures network data usage is kept to a minimum.
Streaming Yorkie is developed with Android Studio in Java. Lint & Sonarcloud is used to acquire high quality standardized code with as little complexity possible. The code is documented with JavaDocs & comments to allow for easier collaborations with other developers. JavaDocs are enforced & without them the build fails DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) & KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principles are enforced as much as possible. Variable naming conventions are also in place.
The variable name must explain what it is or what it does, clearly, for any developer to understand.
Hopefully this can be used as an example for good coding as well as how to develop an Android App in Java. The code includes examples of:
- RecyclerView, Adapter, Drag & Drop
- Room, SQLite, DAO & Entity
- Volley library for HTTP requests
- Glide library for image rendering
- Lottie animations & UX design
- Notifications, Window Manager
- Foreground Service, Background Service
- Worker, Async Task, AlarmManager
- Network Usage Monitor, Broadcast Receiver
- Thread, Handler, Runnable
- Programmatic permissions, Mira casting
- In-app purchases & subscriptions
- File read, write & delete operations
- Custom views, Scroll View, ...
- Constraint, Relative & Linear Layouts
- WebView, TextView, ImageView, ...
- Activity, Intent, Listener, ...
- Gradle, Build relies on,
- Checkstyle, JavaDocs, Lint & Sonar
- Productive deployments to Google Play Store
Any collaborations are welcome, so feel free to fork & ask for merge requests. See something inefficient? Let me know. I'm always trying to improve my coding & learn new things.
Email: DescriptiveAnimals@gmail.com
For any issues, questions or change requests, feel free to ask on Discord. I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Become a Patron. Help decide what my main focus should be & get extra benefits.
Any support or donations are highly appreciated (but not expected) & go towards improving development & entertainment.
I also love to entertain, game & stream as a hobby on Twitch. If you're interested, come & say 'Hi'.
I'm also on LinkedIn. Here you will find my development preferences & experiences.
Click on one of the images below to be redirected a designated site.
A big thank you to you all for going out of your way supporting Streaming Yorkie. Whether it's bug reporting, feature requests, promoting or in-app purchases, your contribution is highly appreciated.
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- Login & Logout
- Symbols & Icons
- Followers, Following & F4F
- VODs
- MultiView
- Lurk
- Host
- User Info
- Info
- Shop
- Settings
Here you will be asked for your Username & Password which will be given directly to Twitch. Streaming Yorkie needs to be authorized to be allow you to edit & change you account. Logging in is required only once & without it, it cannot work. Once logged in you should see you own Logo. From here press back to get to the menu & you're good to go.
To logout click on the options in the Support Bar (top right) & then on the Logout.
Once logged out, all your data will be deleted from the device.
To help towards internationalization (i18n) I decided to use symbols/icons that were inspired by the actions taken on Twitch.
Several menus are available to divide StreamingYorkie into each feature it offers:
Shows all Followers from Twitch including who has unfollowed
Shows all Following from Twitch including who you have unfollowed
Overview & simplification users who F4F (Follow for Follow)
Overview for VODs (Videos On Demand) & exporting VODs
Watch multiple streams at once on one screen
Lurk streamers and add to their view count
Adding removing & re-prioritizing hosting streamers in your AutoHost list
Quick overview about your Twitch account
Shows different platforms for further information such as a Twitch & Contact
Shop for in-app purchase and subscriptions
Github link to ReadMe guide
Offline help guide
Github link to Updates
Github link to the source code
Github link to Contact
Link to Discord
Link to developers stream
Membership
Projects
The settings menu is split up into further features below
Logs out of StreamingYorkie & Twitch as well as deleting any data relating to your Twitch account
Each Menu is split into 3-4 of the following categories:
All current Followers/Following (including New)
All Followers who Unfollowed you or Following you Unfollowed
Users/VODs that are excluded from AutoFollow/AutoExport as well as being excluded from the other menus
Users who Follow you, but you dont Follow them back
Followers who also Follow you
Users you Follow, who dont Follow you back
VODs (Videos On Demand) that are available on your Twitch account
Exported VODs done by StreamingYorkie will be found here
Each category contains up to 3 of the following actions:
Notifications are active, pressing deactivates it
Notifications are not active, pressing activates it
Currently included & excludes Users/VODs from other categories & from AutoFollow
Deletes User/VOD from the Device (not Twitch)
Start watching multiple streams at once on one screen
Initiate lurking given streamer
Stop lurking chosen streamer
Adds a streamer to the AutoHost list
Removes a streamer from the AutoHost list
Moves a streamer to a different priority ranking
Opens a dialog to send a message to the chosen channels chat
Sends the message to channel chat
Starts the purchase flow for the respective item
Cancels the current action being taken
Saves the current changes (if any have been made)
Signals that the purchase is not possible
Here you can see who you follow (a.k.a. Following), who follows you (a.k.a. Followers), who unfollowed you & an excluded list from the AutoFollow.
New followers/following will be marked with a 
Click on the user logo to be redirected to their profile on Twitch.
The data can/will be refreshed on entering a menu, or changing a category
An action-all button will appear on the bottom in cases where all user actions are the same.
Example: In F4F at the end of
Each Menu has its own exclusion list for view customization that do not reflect in other lists.
Once excluded from any single list, it will be excluded from AutoFollow.
Example: Excluding a user in Follower will not exclude the user in F4F, but will exclude it from AutoFollow.
Here VODs (Videos On Demand) that are currently available from your profile on Twitch. The title, game & creation date will be displayed with a preview image of the VOD as well.
All VODs can be exported once & will not heavily affect network usage. The exportation of the VOD is done by Twitch to your linked Youtube account. As it is done per the Twitch website.
A dialog will appear to edit any information such as:
- Title: The title of the VOD once exported
- Description: VOD description as per Youtube standards
- Tags: List of Tags as per Youtube standards
- Visibility: If the VOD should be private (off) or public (on)
- Split: If the VOD should be split into 15 minute segments
Exported VODs will be visible under the Exported menu category. VODs that are unavailable on Twitch & have been exported can be deleted.
To refresh the view & send a new request press the refresh button
Here you can watch multiple streams at once on one screen.
Enter up to 4 channel names that are currently online and press the MultiView start button 
A cast button 
The MultiView uses an external website TwitchMultiView, designed and hosted by the same developer.
The soft keys can be seen either by swiping from the bottom up, or from the top down.
Here you can lurk any live stream and add to their viewer count. Lurking helps other channels get higher on list to increase the chances of more viewers, followers, etc.
Enter the channel name and to start lurking press the lurk button 
When a channel is being lurked, you will have the option to write to chat.
Pressing the message button 
To stop lurking a channel press the unlurk button 
To include it in the AutoLurk, press the Lurk button
To remove a channel from the list press the delete button 
Lurking starts a separate service which requires the Overlay Permission. An invisible browser is shown in the Overlay to make the browser think you are watching the stream (as a viewer would). The videos within the browser only pull & play the audio on the minimal possible volume to reduce the network load. Only this way along with being connected to chat, can you be counted as a viewer. For each channel lurked, a Bot with your name is created and added to the channel
The service will display a notification saying how many channels are being lurked and the apps total network usage. The network usage includes other requests within the app irrelevant from lurking. The service can be paused, stopped & started from the notification. The notification only disappears once the service has ended.
Using the Twitch App will disable the lurk service. Use MultiView or another device to watch while lurking.
Here you can add, remove and re-prioritize hosting streamers on your AutoHost list.
Enter a channel name, then click the host button 
Click 
By holding 
This is an overview of the User who is currently logged in, that shows the following:
- Logo: Your profile picture
- Username: Your login name / username
- ID: Your unique Twitch ID
- Game: The current game you are playing
- Member Since: When you joined
- Views: How many views you have
- Followers: How many followers you have
- Broadcaster Type: If you are affiliated or partnered
- Status: Your Go Live status
- Description: Your profile description
Not all information can be shown unless 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) is activated and the user has streamed before.
To refresh the view & send a new request press the refresh button
If you would like anything else to be displayed, or have the info display differently, let me know.
Here you can find external links, offline guides and more in relation to the Streaming Yorkie & its developer:
On the bottom of the screen, the current app version should be shown.
Tapping the Developer Logo 8 times will give you access to the app logs & files. An error log is available along with much more for support purposes.
Warning
We cannot gain or have access to these files due to security reasons.
Here you can support Streaming Yorkie with either in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Some items can be purchased multiple times. Only one subscription can be active at one given time.
To purchase an item, click on
If an item is not available for purchase, it will be displayed with
Thank you for any purchases made and your continuous support regardless.
Here you can configure the AutoFollow to run in the background.
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AutoFollow Service: Following, Unfollowing or Following & Unfollowing can be activated.
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Interval: The interval slider ranges from 1-60 with a unit option of Minutes, Hours or Days. Please be wary, due to a high battery consumption & inefficiency from other Apps, the interval has been restricted by Android to a minimum of 15 Minutes. Going below this will default back to 15 Minutes.
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Enable Notifications: You can switch on or off whether the AutoFollow activates notifications for each new Follower.
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Share F4F Status: You can share that you are AutoFollowing to our Discord channel for others to know that when they follow you, they get followed back.
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Warning
Please make sure you have excluded Followers & Following you wish to be left alone from the AutoFollow Service.
Be wary when following/unfollowing when AutoFollow is active, new users will have to handled accordingly
If you run into problems with the AutoFollow Service, deactivate it & contact me.
Here you can configure the AutoVODExport to run in the background.
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AutoVODExport Service: Select Export to be active.
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Interval: The interval slider ranges from 1-60 with a unit option of Hours or Days. We recommend you not to do it too often as it will affect unnecessary battery & network consumption. Once a week is plenty.
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Visibility: If the VODs should have private or public visibility on Youtube
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Split: If the VODs should be split into 15 Min segments
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Here you can configure the AutoLurk to run in the background and Lurk streamers when they come online. This can take up to 15 minutes to activate.
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Activate AutoLurk: Switch on to activate.
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Lurk on WiFi only: The service only activates or runs when the device is connected to a WiFi
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Inform channel of Lurk: Sends a message to the streamers chat once the worker has activated
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Message: The message to be sent to the chat, if empty it defaults to '!lurk'
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v2.x.x
- 2.3.8-a
- 2.3.7-a
- 2.3.6-a
- 2.3.5-a
- 2.3.4-a
- 2.3.3-a
- 2.3.2-a
- 2.3.1-a
- 2.3.0-a
- 2.2.2-a
- 2.2.1-a
- 2.2.0-a
- 2.1.9-a
- 2.1.8-a
- 2.1.7-a
- 2.1.6-a
- 2.1.5-a
- 2.1.4-a
- 2.1.3-a
- 2.1.2-a
- 2.1.1-a
- 2.1.0-a
- 2.0.3-a
- 2.0.2-a
- 2.0.1-a
- 2.0.0-a
Minor bug fixes
Issue fixed:
- Workaround for Twitch v5 API cursor bug
- Fixed Following notification bug
Twitch API Workaround
Issue fixed:
- Twitch v5 API is broken, utilising now both v5 & helix for follower info
Bug fix
Issue fixed:
- Lurk feature fix due to Twitch API change.
Bug fix
Issue fixed:
- Lurk settings activation switch
Hotfix
Issues fixed:
- Following bug from twitch api
Hotfix
Issues fixed:
- DB crashes
Hotfix
Issues fixed:
- Follower/following bug
Bug fixes & minor improvements
Improvements:
- Deep linking for easier following on discord
Issues fixed:
- Follower/following bug
AutoHost List & bug fixes
Features:
- AutoHost list
- Additional lurk settings
Improvements:
- Sonarcloud lint fixes
- Complexity reduction
- Changed close icon in notifications bar
Issues fixed:
- Added cursor to followers request to avoid 1600 limit
- Pressing back and navigating correctly to the dashboard
- Removed support for Android < 6.0
- Removed Google Play connectivity toast
Lottie animations & UI/UX improvements
Improvements:
- Lottie animations & UI/UX
- Shout-outs link
Issues fixed:
- Login issue on older devices fixed
- VOD export issue due to Twitch changes fixed
- Lurking issue due to Twitch changes fixed
- Toasts outside of app fix
Worker Hotfix
Issues fixed:
- Worker crash on start fix
New features, improvements & fixes
Features:
- Shop for in-app purchases & subscriptions
- User logo redirects to Twitch
Improvements:
- Complexity reduction
- Lambda replacements
- Removed irrelevant test classes
- Defined constants
Issues fixed:
- New followers not showing in list fix
- Login process not following defined flow fix
Improvements & Fixes
Improvements:
- Lurk - Ensuring the lurk counts as a view
Issues fixed:
- Login - adapting to changes in Twitch login procedure
Lurk Hot Fix
Issues fixed:
- Lurk - RemoteServiceException fix
Lurk Hot Fix
Issues fixed:
- Lurk - Handler & Looper fix
Lurk Hot Fix
Issues fixed:
- Lurk - Handler & Looper fix
Improvements & Fixes
Issues fixed:
- Lurk - Alarm & doze mode
- Lurk - Error handling
Improvements:
- Lurk - Sing request for online users
- Discord - Permanent links
- Lambda - more Lambda refactoring
Improvements & Fixes
Issues fixed:
- Info - Layout alignment fix
Improvements:
- AutoLurk - AlarmManager API specific calls
- Lambda - more Lambda refactoring
Hot fix for DB migration
Issues fixed:
- Room - Database version upgrade & migration fix due to undefined constant in sql query
Hot fix for DB migration
Issues fixed:
- Room - Database version upgrade & migration fix due to undefined constant in sql query
Hot fix for DB migration
Issues fixed:
- Room - Database version upgrade & migration fix
New feature & many improvements
Features:
- AutoLurk
- Lurk Messaging with PircBotX
Issues fixed:
- Lurk - lurk not counted as view fix
- Adapter - threading fix
Improvements:
- LurkAdapter - now uses Room
- Lambda - more Lambda refactoring
- Sonarcloud - new rules & improvements
- PNG images converted to WEBP format
- Discord - improved linking & notifications
- Security - Random changed to SecureRandom
- File to Room - removed temporary file export
Patch for minor fixes
Issues fixed:
- RecyclerView - crash reduction per post method IndexOutOfBoundsException fix
- Worker - fix activating/deactivating worker
Improvements:
- Worker - activation/deactivation handling
Patch for minor fixes
Issues fixed:
- Lurk - Redundant API call replacement fix
- RecyclerView - crash IndexOutOfBoundsException fix
- WriteFileHandler - toasts on error only when activity is present fix
- AutoFollow - creation of notification directories fix
- UserView - loading logo crash
Other:
- Gradle update
- RecyclerView update
- Room update
Patch for minor fixes
Issues fixed:
- UserView crash on displaying chanel name fix
- RecyclerView crash IndexOutOfBoundsException fix
- FollowRequestHandler NumberFormatException crash fix
Improvements:
- Request architecture change for faster more efficient http requests
- SQLite & Room introduction for efficient data management
- Explicit threading for smoother UI loading and data handling
Other:
- Gradle update
- Sonarcloud introduction
- SDK update
- Java update
Major update affecting architecture
Improvements:
- Request architecture change for faster more efficient http requests
- SQLite & Room introduction for efficient data management
- Explicit threading for smoother UI loading and data handling
Other:
- Gradle update
- Sonarcloud introduction
- SDK update
- Java update
v1.x.x
- 1.3.1-a
- 1.3.0-a
- 1.2.1-a
- 1.2.0-a
- 1.1.3-a
- 1.1.2-a
- 1.1.1-a
- 1.1.0-a
- 1.0.4-a
- 1.0.3-a
- 1.0.2-a
- 1.0.1-a
- 1.0.0-a
Patch for fixing issues below
Features:
- MultiView Cast
- Lurk Service
- Share F4F to Discord
Issues fixed:
- Login Crash due to 2FA
- Twitch APIv3 Shutdown
Other:
- Release prerequisites
- Minor refactoring
- Improved RequestHandler error handling
- Improved Navigation handling
Third minor release for new features.
Features:
- MultiView Cast
- Lurk Service
- Share F4F to Discord
Other:
- Release prerequisites
- Minor refactoring
Patch for fixing issues below
Issues fixed:
- Empty VOD Crash fix
- Following toast typo
- Changed min api to 21 due to WebView restrictions
- UserView crash fix
- Autofollow crash fix
Improvements:
- In-app version display
- Notification repetition & cancellation
- Updated offline icon guide
- Updated & fixed Github readme
- Improved play store search
- VOD preview links
- Twitch sync message clarification
Second minor release for new features.
Features:
- MultiView
- Guides, Help & Links
Issues fixed:
- Follow Requests fix
- User view fix
- VOD exports during stream
- Autofollow & UserView crashes fix
Other:
- Dynamic notification button on follow
- Reimplemented flag files
Patch for fixing issues below
Issues fixed:
- Removed Auth custom timeout
- Offline User Logo
- 60 Day token refresh
- Log view line break fix
- Follow requests not working fix
Improvements:
- Glide user logo placeholders
- Error Handling
- Toasts across App
- Increased MinSdk to 19
- Updated Glide Library
- App icon resolution fix
- Dynamic F4F objects
Patch for fixing issues below
Issues fixed:
- Removed Auth custom timeout
- Offline User Logo
- 60 Day token refresh
- Log view line break fix
Improvements:
- Error Handling
- Toasts across App
- Increased MinSdk to 19
- Updated Glide Library
- App icon resolution fix
- Dynamic F4F objects
Patch for fixing issues below
Features:
- VOD Overview
- VOD Export
- VOD Export Automation
Issues fixed:
- F4F Settings fix
- WriteFile append with line break
- VOD Export while streaming fix
- VOD count and removal when offline / non-existent
First minor release for new features.
Features:
- VOD Overview
- VOD Export
- VOD Export Automation
Issues fixed:
- Request & file writing synchronization
- Login/Logout correction fix
- Encoding issues fix (UTF-8)
- Action button issue fix
Other:
- Styling updated
- Logout option in Settings
- JUnit tests for package:file
- DRY Principle enforcements improved
- New screenshots for Google Play
Patch for fixes listed below.
Issues fixed:
- Follow/Unfollow all action implementation (was missing after recycler view)
- Updates for Google Play Policies (code was not pushed)
Patch for fixes listed below.
Issues fixed:
- F4F Menu Users movement correction
- Updates for Google Play Listing Policies
Patch for fixes listed below.
Issues fixed:
- Link to Guide/Manual in Info
- User list order wrong (due to Collections reverse order mistake)
- Weak References checked against null
- Nested weights in info.xml removed (redesigned)
- F4F Menu Users removed from view when Follow/Unfollow action taken
- Check in place for Follow/Unfollow/Notification actions when offline
- Bug/Issue template for Github & replaced in readme
- Implemented Javadoc Checkstyle restrictions
- Implemented Lint restrictions (for maintaining high code quality)
Patch for fixes listed below.
Issues fixed:
- User list order wrong (previous code was not implemented)
- Activity refreshes on screen rotation fix
- Exclusion lists inconsistency fix (wrong path & decision to keep)
First Public Major Release.
Features:
- User Overview
- Follower, Following & Follow4Follow Overview
- Developer Overview
- Settings implemented
- AutoFollow implemented
- Login/Logout implemented
Issues fixed:
- User list view lag
- User list order wrong
- Action buttons functionality fix
- AutoFollow activation fix
- Multiple request collision fix
- Skipped frames fix
The following tasks and features are currently on the roadmap & some of which are likely to be within the next release.
- Stream Info/Event tracker (views, hosts, followers, chats, markers)
- Report Bug with error log
- Sonarcloud improvements
- Pipeline for tests & sonarcloud
- Use more lottie animations & improve UI/UX
- Single automated E2E test
- Firebase device farm
- Unit tests until 100% code coverage
- Extend Settings for general (Wifi only, user pic size, theme choice)
- Data backup & recovery
- Stream Scheduler (for past, current & future streams)
- Quick Tap host
- Host for Host
- Clips overview, upload, creation, ...
- Status, Game, Tags & Description editing option
- Reusable Activities (Go Live text, game, tags)
- Instant AutoFollow & AutoUnfollow (based on webhooks)
- Streaming tips (obs settings, camera & green screen, networking, chat interactions)
- Handle Multiple/Dual accounts (eg. one for following, one for followers)
- i18n (Internationalization)
- Follower/Following search
- Testing
- Smoke tests on different sdk versions done?
- JUnit tests defined, changed and executed?
- Single E2E test changed and executed?
- Google Play
- Listing updated?
- Screenshots Updated?
- Github
- Readme
- New action? category? menu?
- Updates extended?
- New feature documented?
- Links to Readme sections & pics working?
- Correct branch?
- Merged with master?
- Release with new Tag done?
- Readme
Please report any issues you may come across to help improve Streaming Yorkie. You can either use Githubs Issue Tab or contact me on Discord. Please try to use the following template to help resolve the issue quicker.
**Description:**
**Reproduction:**
**Code Path:**
**StreamingYorkie Version:**
**Android Version:**
**Smartphone Make & Model:**
Description: A description of what the issue is
(Bug/Problem) Reproduction: How to reproduce the error or proof (picture/video) of the error
(Code Inefficiency) Code Path: Where to find the code inefficiency e.g. Link to class & line number
Streaming Yorkie Version: Version of App being used e.g. 1.0.0-a
Android Version: Version of Android being used e.g 4.4.4
Smartphone Make & Model: Where the App is being used e.g Samsung S9