Version 2.971

In 54 commits, 1697 lines were added, 1088 lines were deleted, the new release contains the following changes:

• Search result now contains playlists and channels among the videos.
• Subscription feed checking displays notification instead of a modal dialog - by @okan35
• Channel list can be filtered - by @okan35
• Hide the Block Channel menu item when the Video Blocker is not enabled. - by @atomjack
• Migrate PreferenceManager to androidx - by @ChemWater
• Implement paging in the bookmark fragment - this will improve the responsiveness of the bookmark
• Add padding and background to make the option menu item more finger-friendly
• Rename values-id folder to values-in to enable Indonesian translations

Version 2.970

• Fix Subscription DB upgrade error
• Add ability to switch brightness and volume control
• Fixing a typo found by Avently, which prevented loading the first video in a page with Youtube API
• Re-enabled image and image button in search hints dropdown.
• Fix paging with NewPipeBackend
• NewPipeExtractor update needed due to Youtube.com change.
• Video playback speed controll added

Version 2.969

• Use NewPipe backend for checking new videos on subscriptions.
• No need to restart the app for an Youtube key change.
• Add checks for network availability before:
  • channel metadata download
  • displaying download menuitem
  • showing the comment panel
• Improve URL parsing, to handle more variant.
• Add a simple menuitem to disable video gestures without leaving the player screen.
• Updated Polish and Hungarian translations

Version 2.968

• Reduce the number of Youtube API calls
• Implement comment fetching with the NewPipe backend
• Fix the repeating search result problem with the NewPipe backend.
• Subscription feed refresh should not force the UI to the head of the list.
• Show error when comment fetching fails due to Youtube API error.

Version 2.967

• Fix crash in Subscription feed retrieval ( #594 )
• Fix multiple, concurrent play, due to ExoPlayer creation
• App is now able to backup (and restore) channelFiltering and searchHistory databases.

Version 2.966

The main driver for this release is implementing a channel cache, which will reduce network usage, and improve offline experience.

• #570 - fix "cannot play video after returning from open with"
• #571 - fix 'configure channel blocking at the subscribe page leading to fatal crash'
• #572 - new policies for downloading videos on mobile network: "Always ask"/"Block"/"Allow"
• #574 - "play video under mobile data" dialog can only be dismissed by double clicking "Play Video"
• #580 - fix exception in DialogUtils.java line 125
• #586 - fix fatal failure on new installations.
• Fixes for the NewPipeExtractor backend
• dependency upgrades
• New Swedish translation.

Thanks for @tingsu for his detailed bug reports!

Version 2.965

The main driver for this release is some refinement in the new 'NewPipeExtractor' backend.
Currently, this is an optional feature, which needs 'opt-in' in the preferences (Others -> Use the NewPipe backend), after it is enabled, no Youtube API key is needed for:

• Checking new videos for the subscriptions
• Opening channels (except listing the playlists)
• Playing videos
• Searching for videos by text

Other than, it contains the following changes:

• Do not block videos on bookmark and downloaded videos tab.
• Dependency upgrades
• Fix to handle dialog cancellation as 'negative' response in couple of places - where an answer is expected.
• Remove special icon, which cause crashes on old Androids.
• Display YouTube API errors to the user, to avoid confusion.
• Updated Russian and Portuguese (Brazil) translation.

Version 2.964

The main driver for this release is the new 'NewPipeExtractor' backend.
Currently, this is an optional feature, which needs 'opt-in' in the preferences (Others -> Use the NewPipe backend), after it is enabled, no Youtube API key is needed for:

• Checking new videos for the subscriptions
• Opening channels (except listing the playlists)
• Playing videos
• Searching for videos by text

Other than, it contains the following changes:

• Added ability to bookmark videos by sharing youtube url's from other apps.
• Fix bug in Chromecast occured during pause-resume.
• Paging implemented in the Subscription Feed - so the feed loads faster now.
• Create a new preference fragment for 'Downloads and Network' settings
• Updated Russian translation

Version 2.963

This release contains the following changes:

• Add preference to set custom video download folder
• Using com.github.hedzr:android-file-chooser package for file dialogs, instead of com.github.angads25:filepicker
• Fix subscription refresh bugs - do not start multiple refresh concurrently
• Add scroll to top of list when clicking on current tab
• Added Preference to show/hide tabs
• Make sure Google Play Services is installed before attempting to support Chromecast
• Added Preference to select video download quality
• Updated French translations.

Version 2.962

Small bug fix release to improve the API key issue

• Add a new Youtube API key, re-use the old keys for F-Droid.
• Updated German and Hungarian translations.

The APK signing key has been changed since 2.95, due to the maintainer change, sorry for the inconvenience.