Release v1.4.1 · devfahim00/SparkTube

What's new since v1.4.0

Smart streaming — Auto / default-quality videos now start with small adaptive (DASH) segments and adjust the quality per segment, like the official app. Long and high-bitrate videos no longer sit on the spinner while the app drops quality step by step.
Your default quality (720p Wi-Fi / 480p data) is now the ceiling of the adaptive quality instead of a fixed pick. Picking a quality manually in the gear menu still plays exactly that quality.
If the adaptive start fails or is too slow, the video automatically falls back to the regular stream (and the slow-connection quality drop still applies).
New Settings → Video → Smart streaming switch (on by default).

YouTube-style watch page — title above a soft card with views · date and a foldable description (Show more / Show less, links clickable).
Comments — top-comment preview card that opens a tall, endlessly scrolling comments sheet (pinned / hearted / likes).
Comment replies — tap View N replies to expand replies right under the comment, with Show more replies for long threads.
Comment profile pictures fixed — avatars now load again (with a coloured initial as a fallback instead of an empty circle).
New YouTube-style video cards: round channel avatar, two-line title and one combined "channel • views • time" line.

The video and music players now open by sliding up out of the mini player and close by sliding down (they used to open from the right).
Swipe down on the music player to minimize it into the mini player.
Mini player video now fills the whole box (16:9, rounded) — no more black bars above and below.
Screens start closer to the status bar: the extra empty space at the top of every page was trimmed.

Radio no longer stops after ~9 songs — it starts with a much bigger queue, keeps refilling, and tops up with more songs by the same artist when YouTube's related list runs short.
Music and video search history are now separate — searching for songs no longer shows up in video search (and the other way round). Included in Backup & restore.
Modern music home (greeting, search field, Favorites / Downloads tiles, bigger trending cards, genre tiles) and a redesigned Now Playing screen with large artwork and a live Up next / queue sheet so you can jump to any song in the radio.
Favorites / Downloads lists show a song count and a Play all button.
Now Playing follows the light theme correctly and its buttons have proper accessibility labels.

Live-stream detection uses a typed exception instead of matching error text.
Short cache for stream info to avoid duplicate extractor calls; recycled thumbnails are cleared instead of showing stale images.