NewPipe Material 0.28.8-m9

NewPipe Material 0.28.8-m9

Highlights:

• Added a clearer in-app update flow with changelog preview, APK download progress, and install prompt.
• Improved Backup/Restore safety and user experience.
• Improved large-screen and landscape layouts with Material 3 styling.
• Updated launcher, splash, and TV banner artwork to use Material 3 colors.
• Added playback retry handling for HTTP 403/404 errors.
• Recognized NewPipe Material release builds correctly.
• Fixed PipePipeExtractor source checkout instructions.
• Disabled Android dependency metadata in APK builds.

Based on NewPipe 0.28.8.

NewPipe Material 0.28.8-m8

NewPipe Material 0.28.8-m8

Highlights:

• Updated the app base version to NewPipe 0.28.8.
• Improved YouTube thumbnail, poster, and avatar loading.
• Improved YouTube embedded web playback request handling.
• Fixed channel tab pagination compatibility with the updated extractor.
• Improved release build stability.

Based on NewPipe 0.28.8.

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m7

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m7

Highlights:

• Switched to the latest PipePipeExtractor source checkout to improve YouTube compatibility.
• Updated app integration for the new extractor API and Java 21 bytecode requirements.
• Improved YouTube live and post-live stream compatibility through the updated extractor.
• Improved YouTube rating compatibility when likes and dislikes are not provided directly by the extractor.
• Suppressed non-critical optional metadata extraction warnings in release builds when stream loading still succeeds.
• Continued extractor compatibility and release stability cleanup.

Based on NewPipe 0.28.7.

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m6

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m6

Highlights:

• Added an Updates settings screen with current version, installed app version, manual update checks, changelog viewing, and optional automatic background update checks.
• Improved update checks for NewPipe Material GitHub Releases, including prerelease-aware release selection and in-app manual check results.
• Added Swipe seek, Fullscreen swipe, and Hold to speed up player gesture settings under Video and audio.
• Added Show dislikes in Appearance, enabled by default where supported by the extractor.
• Added SponsorBlock settings, category controls, automatic skipping, manual skip overlay button, and seek-bar segment markers for supported YouTube segments.
• Improved YouTube quality availability through the updated extractor client strategy, allowing higher adaptive qualities such as 720p and 1080p when available.
• Continued Material settings polish and stability cleanup.

Based on NewPipe 0.28.7.

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m5

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m5

Highlights:

• Added helpful summaries to the main settings categories.
• Switched to the modified NewPipeExtractor source checkout with HLS fallback support to improve livestream playback reliability.
• Added README instructions for setting up the NewPipeExtractor source checkout.
• Fixed bottom navigation staying visible when only one main page tab is enabled.

Based on NewPipe 0.28.7.

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m4

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m4

Highlights:

• Cleaned up release workflow after pausing custom F-Droid repo publishing.
• Kept GitHub release/artifact publishing with APK signature verification.
• Shortened release changelog metadata for F-Droid readiness.
• Prepared release metadata flow for IzzyOnDroid and official F-Droid submission.

Based on NewPipe 0.28.7.

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m3

NewPipe Material 0.28.7-m3

Highlights:

• Added localized Fastlane metadata and store assets.
• Updated screenshots and feature artwork.
• Improved player popup readability.
• Improved comment reply contrast.
• Expanded contribution and release QA docs.
• Cleaned up README release links.

Based on NewPipe 0.28.7.