Release 0.20.0

[TobiGr]

Changelogs

App

New

• New application workflow Expandable player with unified UI #2907, Removed java.util.Objects calls #4061, Reduced CPU usage when playing a video by 7-10% #4080, [regression] Close player in onPlaybackShutdown() #4130, Set bottom padding of the main fragment when the mini player is visible #4134, Prevent jumping of the player and wrong padding on devices with cutout #4154, Skipping interception of some gestures #4155 Small fixes of issues with brightness, background playback, gestures #4223, Disabled preloading when switching streams #4246, Small fixes of issues with old devices support, brightness, etc #4272, Performance increase #4288 (thanks to @avently and all others involved)
  • Unified all three players into one for seamless switching between them - for example, now if you tap on background play while the video is playing in the main or popup player, the stream will start exactly where you left off, not from the beginning. This is true when you go from any of the 3 players to each other.
  • Play video directly in video details screen
  • Option to auto-play video upon opening video details screen (on by default)
  • Swipe down on video to minimize it and continue browsing uninterrupted (in landscape mode, you can swipe down on the title to do the same)
  • Full screen button smartly detects if video is portrait or landscape and behaves accordingly
  • Swipe up on full screen button in landscape mode to scroll down the video details
  • Now you get a neat looking progress bar below the thumbnail in the video details screen if you play it in the background or popup player.
  • Minimize players to background by default when switching app
  • The main player/minimized player retains your browsing history until you close it
• Use MediaStyle notifications for all players Notification Improvements #3178
  • Customizable notification actions
  • Reduce excessive notification updating
  • Fixed metadata (song title, artist and album art) sometimes not being set correctly
  • Fixed notification priority and Bluetooth related bugs
• Allow basic resizing when using NewPipe in windowed mode / as desktop application Add basic resize functionality #3948

Improved

• Show dialog with open options in case of an unsupported URL toast Show dialog with open options in case of an unsupported url #3826
• Improve share dialog Add settings migration, improve share dialog and minimize to background by default #4259
• Improve playlist header layout: align with info items and use always two lines for playlist title when needed Improve playlist header layout: align with info items #3944
• Improve search suggestion experience when remote ones can't be fetched Improve search suggestion experience when remote ones can't be fetched #4029
• Increased default video quality to 720p60 (in-app player) and 480p (pop-up player) change default quality #4275
• Reduce redundancy in "Remember popup size and position" setting Reduce redundancy in "Remeber popup size and position" setting #4050
• Remove timestamp from URL when sharing a live stream Remove timestamp from url when sharing a live stream #4115
• Use SubtitlesStream#getUrl instead of getURL Use SubtitlesStream#getUrl instead of getURL #4120
• Remember last selected media type for downloads. Remember last selected media type for downloads. #4038
• Change "Autoplay" to "Autoqueue" to reduce ambiguity Change Autoplay to Autoqueue to reduce ambiguity #4252

Fixed

• Fixed color of correct / suggested search term Fix color of correct / suggested search term #3984
• Fixed ACRA bug reports not containing stack trace Fix ACRA bug reports not containing stack trace #3982
• Fixed crash when opening video in local playlist tab on KitKat Fix crash when opening video in local playlist tab #3892
• Fixed auto-queue with no next videos Fix auto-queue with no next videos #4349
• Fixed display name of Kayble language (Taqbaylit) Fixing name for Taqbaylit language #4066
• Fixed license pop-up hiding when orientation changes Restore license pop-up when orientation changes #4127
• Fixed crash when a file is deleted then redownloaded Fixes crash when a file is deleted then redownloaded #3794

Development

• Add Checkstyle rule to error when a local variable that could be final isn't final Add checkstyle rule to show final local variable violations as warning #4138
• Allow numbers and uppercase letters in app package id Allow numbers and uppercase letters in app package id #4326
• Add requirement for contributors to discuss contributions before opening PRs Add need for contributors to discuss possible changes #4126
• Deprecations and cleanup Deprecations and cleanup #3909

Extractor

Improved

• Use initSafeStandardsObjects() reCaptcha #387
• Remove SubtitlesStream#getURL(). Use SubtitlesStream#getUrl() instead Network Error #386

Fixed

• Fix crash on empty YouTube comments

APK for testing

NewPipe_v0.20.0RC7.zip
Corresponding PR: #4333

[XiangRongLin]

It should not be possible to select the same buttons multiple times. Also for whatever reason the notification is blue.

[opusforlife2]

@XiangRongLin It takes the colour theme from the thumbnail. See the blue bar at the top of your video's thumbnail.

[XiangRongLin]

The option to not show the thumbnail on the lockscreen during background play is gone from the "player" section. Was it removed in purpose or what happened to it?

[opusforlife2]

This was discussed somewhere very recently. I think the idea was that the option was added because showing the thumbnail was buggy with the earlier notification, but now that we've shifted to MediaStyle notification, it's not needed anymore.

[XiangRongLin]

This was discussed somewhere very recently. I think the idea was that the option was added because showing the thumbnail was buggy with the earlier notification, but now that we've shifted to MediaStyle notification, it's not needed anymore.

@opusforlife2 How do i now not show the thumbnail on the lockscreen? I have the Android feature active to hide sensitive content, so it is just a blurry image. And i like my own wallpaper.

@XiangRongLin It takes the colour theme from the thumbnail. See the blue bar at the top of your video's thumbnail.

@opusforlife2 Is there an option to disable it? I really dislike having everything be darkmode and then newpipe sometimes displaying bright yellow/blue/white notifications.

[opusforlife2]

Is there an option to disable it?

"Starting at Android O any notification that has a media session attached with setMediaSession(android.media.session.MediaSession.Token) will be colorized. You can opt-out of this behavior by using Notification.Builder#setColorized(boolean)."

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Notification.MediaStyle

@XiangRongLin Maybe this can be added as an option in Notification settings?

How do i now not show the thumbnail on the lockscreen? I have the Android feature active to hide sensitive content, so it is just a blurry image. And i like my own wallpaper.

@XiangRongLin I suppose the option would have to be added back, or rewritten, maybe, since the related code has changed.

[opusforlife2]

That's because there is no scope of the resolution changing there, and the player isn't changing either. The stream continues to play in the main player.

@test2a @terrytw For seamless switching (the stream doesn't pause at all) between players, follow #2863.

[MD77MD]

I have noticed two bugs so far:

1. the buffer bar does not update buffer position unless you interact with the player such as skipping (meaning even if the video is already 20s buffered ahead, the buffer bar will not show it unless you tab one of the player buttons such as skipping backwards) edit: please see buffer bar not showing buffer position #4343 @opusforlife2

2. open a playlist in full-screen mode. while playing, tab the top-right button to show the queue. the bug: although the queue window is on top, you can still accidentally press the player ui buttons such as the video quality menu . I think the queue window should block player buttons until dismissed.

[Stypox]

settings (new not imported)

@eladkarako for me those settings import without issues, what's the problem?

[Stypox]

I found an issue with the fullscreen button on tablets, I'm not sure if this is an emulator issue, but I don't think so.

• Autorotation disabled, tablet in portrait
• Open a video (VideoDetailFragment loads the layout layout, i.e. without -large-land)
• Press fullscreen button
• The rotation changes to landscape as expected, the VideoDetailFragment loads the layout-large-land layout as expected, but the player does not switch to fullscreen. In order to make it go fullscreen I had to press on the fullscreen button again.

Note that the behaviour obtained after pressing the fullscreen button is exactly the same as rotating the device, but on tablets rotating the device does not mean going into fullscreen mode. So the fullscreen button should in my opinion rotate the device and then go into fullscreen directly. Anyway, this is not release blocking, so unless @avently has a quick solution we can fix this later in 0.20.1 by ourselves.

[opusforlife2]

@N0TSUS It's just been fixed. Wait for the next RC.

[opusforlife2]

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[TobiGr]

NewPipe_v0.20.0RC6.zip

• fixed play queues not editable Player overlays now centered #4360
• fixed download button not visible after playing live stream Random fixes and improvements #4362
• player layout improvements

[test2a]

i am comparing 0.19.8 and the new rc6 and i find the page switcher icon missing at rest, ie, the user is NOT told about the next track, suggested videos

the two page switcher icons are very important because in absence of those, the user unless they know about swiping left will NOT switch left.
The icons do show up in the new version but i am having to first swipe down on the comments a bit and then it shows up. it should show up either at the top always like it was few updates ago or show up like 19.8, aka always

[avently]

@test2a I made this because no one will need to see this two dots everytime. You only need to see them once to know that there are two pages. So they are useless when you already know about this

[TobiGr]

@test2a I did not notice that. Thank you!
@avently I agree with @test2a that the indicators should be there. The UI should be consistent and therefore display them always.

[avently]

@TobiGr the way they worked before makes them appear in fullscreen. So when the player in fullscreen they are visible at the bottom of the screen.

[Miaourt]

Sorry to hop in, maybe considere tiny "tabbed" design ? Like [comments/suggestions] ? Could be done in a thin way and would be really easier to understand at first
I was like "what why there is a carousel" after some time, and confused on when comments or suggestion where switching, for a long time 😅

[yufin1]

Hello, the notification does not display the the current time in the video and how long the video is.
In #4332 (comment) is a screenshot with the timebar and the time numbers. I did not use this RC (and haven't found a download for this RC) since my first one which I downloaded was RC03 so I don't know if it was removed in later versions or if the commenter has different settings so that he get the timebar and numbers. I haven't found anything to change it though and so I am still using an older debug version which had the old notifications style. Is it a failure on my side for a wrong setting or were the timebar and numbers removed? I am on Android 9 with the RC6.

[Stypox]

@yufin1 could you provide the exact steps to reproduce? Are you on Android 10?

[yufin1]

@Stypox I am on android 9. Well it is just the normal notification if I start a video. So I just start playing a video and get the notification. I have used other RCs too and always got this notification without the timebar. But the timebar should be visible i.e. it wasn't removed?

[heberjeur]

I can't find subscriptions and bookmarked playlists, then, I tried to import my previous database,the tabs name are correct but their contents are missed

[opusforlife2]

Hello, the notification does not display the the current time in the video and how long the video is.
I am on android 9.

@yufin1 That's not a bug. That's just a consequence of switching to MediaStyle notifications. The seekbar only appears on Android 10+ now.

[Stypox]

I can't find subscriptions and bookmarked playlists, then, I tried to import my previous database,the tabs name are correct but their contents are missed

That's a known issue also in previous versions. If, after importing, you completely close the app and reopen it, everything should be fine.

[avently]

I just noticed that notification doesn't contain current time and all time. Why? There is a place for a custom string inside notification. So you can pass 12:34 / 45:55 in it. Also you can pass place of a stream in a playlist too, like 12:34 / 45:55, 1/4. Can this be added?

[Stypox]

@avently that would require updating the notification every second, which is not a good idea in my opinion, as it would increase battery consumption and hurt performance.

[TobiGr]

Last RC for this release: NewPipe_v0.20.0RC7.zip

• updated translations
• added the new languages to the app language selector
• updated PrettyTime to resolve incorrect use of Russian plurals

[avently]

@Stypox from my point of view the cost is acceptable. I think the cost of cpu time should be measured before making a decision

[avently]

One week of adapting the code to release. That's cool. Thank you everyone involved into the process. We did a great job!
I hope new releases will be compared to 0.20.0 and not with 0.19.8 😄

[avently]

@opusforlife2 i'm a bit late but today I read a blog post about changes in this version. The post is so awesome! So detailed, with pictures and comparisons with previous version. Thank you for it.
Comments are great too. Basically we can see that most people like the update but haters can't stop hating. Nice experience

[opusforlife2]

@avently Thanks! Poolitzer and I worked on the blog post, and everyone contributed screenshots and short videos.