Release Hikari 0.3.68 · codegeasse1/hikari

0.3.68

The big one: a new look everywhere, a real download system, server sections, a
much smarter detail page, and a place to talk to us.

Here's what's new — and, for the two new things that open other apps, exactly
where they open, so nothing surprises you.

The new Trailers row on a title shows the actual YouTube trailers and
teasers for it, official ones first.
Tap one and it opens the YouTube app — the real one, with your account,
full quality, and the controls and gestures you already know.
If YouTube isn't installed, it goes to your browser instead. Hikari's own
in-app browser is the very last fallback and, in practice, never gets used —
so you always get a real trailer, not a stripped-down web page.

Telegram group: https://t.me/CodegeasseHikari — for support, bug
reports, feature requests, title requests, or just to say hi.
Two ways in: Settings → About → Telegram, and a one-time invitation the
first time you open the app.
Join opens the Telegram app directly — and if Telegram isn't installed,
your browser. It deliberately never opens inside Hikari's own in-app browser:
Telegram is an app, so we hand you straight to it.
The invitation shows once. Tick "Don't show this again" and it never
comes back.

Wide 16:9 hero carousel — swipeable, with the title's backdrop, logo-free
art, rating and a one-tap Play / Library action.
Continue Watching shelf that remembers where you were, plus a setting to
hide it if you don't want it.
Progressive feed — rows appear as each extension answers instead of the
whole page waiting for the slowest source.
Posters load through a bounded, tokenised image pipeline, so a Home with
thousands of tiles no longer runs out of memory.

Show Details block — status, runtime, certification, rating, country,
language, director and writers, from TMDB.
Cast row — tap any actor to search for them.
Trailers row — see Trailers open in the real YouTube app above.
Related and Similar shelves.
Add to Library (the heart) right on the page, mirroring the player's heart.
Season picker and 30-episode pages, so a 200-episode show is navigable.
Episode names in English — pulled from TMDB (en-US) when it has them;
otherwise the episode keeps the source's own name (never a Chinese title
substituted for an English one). Decorated/franchise titles ("Sword of Coming
Season 2", "Battle Through The Heavens: Origin") now resolve properly, which
is what brings Cast / Trailers / Details / Related / Similar back for them.
Tap a genre/tag chip to search for it.

Complete redesign: floating glass panels for every menu — quality, audio
track, subtitles, servers, episodes, playback speed and progress — with the
panel's rows following its curved edge.
Compact top bar (heart / download / PiP / gear / lock), centred pill row, and
a "Tap to play" title card while the stream starts.
Gesture HUD: double-tap to seek (5s/10s), vertical swipe for brightness
(left) and volume (right), long-press speed, lock and rotate pills.
Subtitles: size, sync offset and vertical position controls; side-loaded
subtitle files render correctly now; audio-track switching fixed.
Picture-in-picture, YouTube-style control auto-hide, resume prompt inside
the video, and deep buffering so a weak connection stalls instead of dying.
Side-loaded and extension-provided subtitles, per-source headers, HLS/DASH,
ClearKey/Widevine DRM, and no more replaying an expired provider link (servers
are re-fetched when they go stale). The server list keeps filling in live
while you watch.

Don't auto-play the first source — a new setting lets Hikari wait (for the
first server, or until N servers are found) and show the chooser instead, with
an optional title-card loading screen.
Servers are now grouped into sections: CloudStream, Hikari,
Nuvio, Stremio (and Other), so a merged list of 40 servers is readable
at a glance.
Slow connection / mobile data mode — raises the search and probe timeouts
and retries providers that time out, so a weak connection doesn't end in
"No playable sources found".
Play never dead-ends any more: the player opens immediately and the sources
sheet reveals itself as soon as anything is found.

Save titles offline inside the app and/or export to your phone's
storage (Downloads folder via MediaStore).
Choose the quality to download.
HLS downloads keep video + audio in sync and mux them into one MP4
(separate audio tracks are merged, not dropped).
Parallel segment fetching — video and audio download at the same time.
1–10 concurrent downloads slider, live speed, progress, a "Converting"
phase and the ability to pause/cancel/delete from the Downloads tab.

Reorganised into folders instead of one endless list: Player, Sources,
Downloads, Appearance, Privacy, About.
In-app UI scale — ignore the phone's font/display size and pick your own,
so the app looks identical on every device.
Themes, playback start rule, loading banner, slow-connection mode, ad
blocking, userscripts, element blocker, WebView safety (redirect + popup
protection with an allow-list), WebView user-agent override, download
concurrency, continue-watching visibility, and a GitHub update checker that
downloads and installs the new APK for you.

CloudStream .cs3 plugins (Stage 2): Hikari's own cloudstream3
compatibility layer — install from a repo (checksum-verified) or a single
.cs3 URL/file, and the plugin's own settings screen opens from the gear.
Hikari extensions (.hiki), Nuvio providers, Stremio addons and
universal JSON/HTML scrapers all live side by side.
Extension browser with folders per repo, per source kind, install-all,
search, and a globe button to run an extension's Cloudflare verification
in a real WebView.
The official Hikari and CloudStream repos are seeded on first run, so you have
sources without typing a single URL.

Detail-page metadata (Show Details / Cast / Trailers / Related / Similar) used
to silently never load — a NetworkOnMainThreadException swallowed by a
runCatching. All TMDB calls now hop to a background thread by construction.
System back now steps out of Extensions/Settings folders instead of dropping
you on Home.
Out-of-memory crashes on image-heavy screens (bounded caches, largeHeap,
poster tokenisation).
Search paging, catalog categories, plugin settings sheet scrolling, mojibake
in some titles, hero banner swipe, single-season shows with continuous
numbering, and a Kotlin string-interpolation crash on CJK season markers
(第2季).
In-app fullscreen no longer leaves a blank band under the status bar after
coming back from the background.