We are talking about the most important changes that happened in 2023, layout NewPipe's roadmap for the coming year, and explain why I am going to stop working on NewPipe in 2024.
NewPipe is looking for more testers, community managers, developers and maintainers. If you want to get involved, get in touch with us!
🆕 support for more content through tabs on channel pages (videos, YT shorts, playlists, Bandcamp albums, about, ...)
🖼️ image quality control through settings with three presets (low, medium, high)
🖼️ option to download thumbnails in various sizes
⬆️ small UX improvements
⚙️ internal optimizations and library updates
🌐 translation updates
🐞 fixed NewPipe not responding in some cases
🐞 fixed "could not get like count"
🆕 support for channel tabs
🆕 image quality control
🆕 option to download thumbnails in various sizes
Plus:
🌐 translation updates
⬆️ small UX improvements
⚙️ internal optimizations and library updates
🐞 multiple bug fixes
We're currently conducting QA and testing for the next update. This might take a while to ensure no regressions were introduced. We are awaiting a few more bug fix PRs, too. Want to help? Go to https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe-nightly/releases and install the latest nightly build🚀
We try to get the apps which blatantly violate our license removed from the app stores quickly to prevent damages to potential users.
I guess that the vast majority of the fediverse audience is already using one of the official ways to get NewPipe. Nevertheless, here is the reminder to get NewPipe from one of these sources:
⚠️ I have to - due to recent events - spread awareness to download #NewPipe only from official sources.⚠️
Scammers try to make money of NewPipe by uploading illegally modified copies of NewPipe to multiple app stores, including Google Play and Apple's App store.
The official NewPipe app does not contain ads, and it does not offer a subscription to unlock features or block ads. Once you've paid those people, your money is likely gone.
I haven't given any updates on the #NewPipe development lately. Although it might seem that most NewPipe devs have been inactive for some time, a lot has happened behind the scenes. Let's catch up on the past weeks months and take a look into future steps of the NewPipe development.
Shortly after that, we were able to enable reproducible builds again. #fdroid now distributes an APK signed by us and one signed by them. This would not have been possible without the help of the great @fdroidorg team. Many thanks to everybody involved!
As you might have noticed, we put a warning to not open any more feature PRs for now on our GitHub repo a few weeks ago. NewPipe has been growing for quite some time now. Version v.0.3 was published on 15th Sept 2015. Since then, more than 10.000 commits have been done in the app repo. The extractor was separated from the app and published as standalone library that is now also used by lovely services like #Piped (if you don't know them yet, check them out at https://github.com/TeamPiped/).
The code base grew steadily, became more and more complex and adding new features became increasingly difficult. We attempted to refactor multiple parts of the code gradually. However, that did not work as good as expected. We therefore have decided that we need to rewrite large parts of the app to update it to the latest Android coding principles and make use of state of the art libraries and techniques.
The problem is that none of us has done such a big rewrite in their short time as developer.
We therefore need for feedback and help! We have listed our ideas and plans in detail on GitHub: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/discussions/10118
Some open source projects have failed their rewrites, got stuck and vanished after no development happened for too long. If you have experience with rewriting a whole project, please give us feedback on our plans!