• Use latest NewPipeExtractor to accommodate recent Youtube website changes.

• This is the first SkyTube version which requires Android 4.4 to run. If you have older device, you should start using SkyTube Legacy
• Use older OkHttp client, which compatible with older Android versions.

• Fix broken Youtube video loading
• Minor cleanups, and preparations for raising the required Android level. Old Androids will be supported through 'SkyTube Legacy'
• Updated translations for:
  • Azerbaijani - Nizami Semidov
  • Basque - Julio Montero
  • Chinese (Simplified) - Eric
  • Chinese (Traditional) - Jeff Huang
  • Croatian - Milo Ivir
  • Hungarian - Szia Tomi
  • Spanish - Alfredo Cruz
  • Polish - Michal L
  • Turkish - Oğuz Ersen
  • Ukrainian - Ihor Hordiichuk

• Add dislike counter using returnyoutubedislike.com API by András Sebők
• Ability to set default playback speed by András Sebők
• Implement fetching Sponsorblock information for downloaded videos by JamesCullum
• Update NewPipeExtractor to fix recent Youtube changes
• Hide the Featured tab by default, as this is only available with the old API
• Fix subscription import.
• Updated translations for:
  • Arabic - Amr Khaled Hassan
  • Azerbaijani - Corc, Nizami, ReVanced
  • Basque - Julio Montero
  • Croatian - Milo Ivir
  • Chinese (Simplified) - Eric, JY3
  • Chinese (Traditional) - zica
  • Czech - DaveJeNej
  • French - J. Lavoie
  • German - James Cullum, RandomModderJDK
  • Indonesian - Reza Almanda
  • Italian - Marco Torti, Luca De Falco
  • Japanese - kazats
  • Korean - sinSetaKokoro
  • Latvian - Tranzistors
  • Hungarian - Szia Tomi, Zsombor
  • Norwegian Bokmål - Allan Nordhøy
  • Polish - Michal L
  • Portuguese - Felipe
  • Portuguese (Brazil) - Bruno Antunes, David Braz
  • Portuguese (Portugal) - Sérgio Marques
  • Russian - Sergey Arkhipov
  • Spanish - Julio Montero
  • Telugu - Abhinav Datta, V. Sai Prakash
  • Turkish - Oğuz Ersen
  • Ukrainian - Artem, Ihor Hordiichuk

• Add Sponsorblock support by James Cullum
• Update NewPipeExtractor to fix recent Youtube changes
• Updated translations for:
  • Albanian - Besnik Bleta
  • Arabic - Khalid Qasim
  • Basque - Julio Montero
  • Croatian - Milo Ivir
  • Czech - Jáchym Řezáč
  • Dutch - Jon Bedet
  • French - J. Lavoie
  • German - 3ole
  • Hindi - Tan
  • Hungarian - Szia Tomi
  • Italian - Tommaso Giutna
  • Norwegian - Allan Nordhøy
  • Polish - Michal L
  • Romanian - Igor Sorocean
  • Russian - lk2322
  • Simplified Chinese - Eric
  • Sinhala - Kaveesha
  • Tamil - Bharath
  • Thai - Sim WC
  • Traditional Chinese - Jeff Huang and zica
  • Turkish - Oğuz Ersen
  • Ukrainian - Ihor Hordiichuk

• Update NewPipeExtractor to fix recent Youtube changes - by Chris Bellew
• Fix a couple of crashes
• Dependency updates
• Updated translations for:
  • Catalan - by DFC
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Finnish - by Ricky Tigg
  • French - by J. Lavoie
  • German - by J. Lavoie and Sascha Werth
  • Japan - by Takaki Iekura
  • Portugal - by ssantos
  • Spanish - by Julio Montero
  • Simplified Chinese - by Eric
  • Tamil - by Pugal Krishnan
  • Turkish - by Oğuz Ersen
  • Ukrainian - by Ihor Hordiichuk
  • Vietnamese - by bruh

• Pause video playback when headphones disconnected - by ilmars
• Code cleanups and bug fixes - by TacoTheDank
• Use the more modern view bindings to construct the UI components - by Isira Seneviratne
• Adding, new snapshot builds to Github.
• Add config option to switch on/off the newer format support, and enable DefaultPlayer even on API 14
• Subscription import updated to support current YouTube format.
• Bug fixes and code cleanups
• Updated English labels - by Allan Nordhøy
• Updated translations for:
  • Basque - by Julio Montero
  • Catalan - by Xean
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Dutch - by Heimen Stoffels
  • Finnish - by Kaantaja
  • French - by J. Lavoie
  • German - by Florian Holeczek and J. Lavoie
  • Indonesian - by zmni
  • Italian - by J. Lavoie and Silvio Pastore
  • Japanese - by Takaki Iekura
  • Kabyle - Muḥend Belqasem, R_SACI and Selyan Sliman Amiri
  • Lithuanian - by Gediminas Murauskas and g
  • Malayalam - by mobilestemp
  • Norwegian Bokmål - by Allan Nordhøy
  • Persian - by roj
  • Polish - by Michal L
  • Portuguese - by Sérgio Marques and ssantos
  • Romanian - by Igor Sorocean
  • Russian - by Axus Wizix, Nikita Epifanov and Sedative
  • Simplified Chinese - by Eric and ohsorry
  • Spanish - by Julio Montero and MS-PC
  • Swedish - by Swedish
  • Traditional Chinese - by Jeff Huang
  • Turkish - by Oğuz Ersen
  • Ukrainian - by Ihor Hordiichuk and Tymofij Lytvynenko
  • Vietnamese - by bruh

• Rewrite the YouTube AsyncTask implementations as methods that use RxJava - by @Isira-Seneviratne
• Implementation of play/pause external media controls - by @darksworm
• Fix freezes/slow UI updates with accessing the database in the background - by Zsombor
• Improve subscription listing with database index - by Zsombor
• Subscription refresh is not tied to opening up the subscription tab - by Zsombor
• Implement 'Trending in XYZ' tab, with country selector - by Zsombor
• Fix errors in downloaded file deletion - by Zsombor
• Fix layout issues when big fonts are used - by Zsombor
• Implement tab hiding/showing without app restart - by Zsombor
• Fix a crash on Android 4.0 - by Zsombor
• Updated translations for:
  • Basque and Spanish - by Julio Montero
  • Catalan - by Alfonso Montero López
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Dutch - by Heimen Stoffels
  • Esperanto - by Jakub Fabijan
  • French - by Thomas Foucher
  • Japanese - by Takaki Iekura
  • Indonesian - by Reza Almanda and zmni
  • Italian - by Silvio Pastore
  • Latvian - by Darksworm
  • Hungarian - by Zsombor
  • Norwegian Bokmål - by Allan Nordhøy
  • Polish - by Michal L
  • Portuguese - by Sérgio Marques
  • Simplified Chinese - by @ohsorry
  • Traditional Chinese - by Jeff Huang
  • Turkish - by Oğuz Ersen
  • Ukrainian - by Tymofij Lytvynenko

• Implement JSON import for subscriptions - the format which is used by takeout.google.com - by Sebastian Magnusson
• Fix crash happing in parsing of the resolution string (It failed for videos with resolutions 2160p60/1080p60/720p60) by Zsombor
• Code cleanups, library upgrades by TacoTheDank
• Fix updating the search history by Zsombor
• Updated translations for:
  • Arabic - by Mahmoud Hussain
  • Basque and Spanish - by Julio Montero
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Dutch - by Heimen Stoffels
  • Japanese - by Takaki Iekura
  • Indonesian - by zmni
  • Norwegian Bokmål - by Allan Nordhøy
  • Russian - by Александр
  • Polish - by Michal L
  • Portuguese - by Sérgio Marques
  • Traditional Chinese - by Jeff Huang
  • Turkish - by Oğuz Ersen
  • Ukrainian

• Video stream selection is greatly improved and extended. Now it is possible to set minimum and maximum resolution and to optimize either for better quality or minimal network bandwith. Reviewing Your setting is higly recommended!
• Automatically retry playing the videos on broken connection
• Instead of mobile network, the app now checks for metered network usage by Isira Seneviratne
• Update NewPipe backend to support latest YouTube changes.
• Using vector icons instead of PNGs for the user interface by Isira Seneviratne
• Code cleanups, removing deprecated libraries, using newer constructs by Isira Seneviratne
• Updated translations for:
  • Basque and Spanish - by Julio Montero
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Dutch - by Heimen Stoffels
  • French - by Arnaud Redslob
  • Hungarian - by Zsombor Gegesy
  • Norwegian Bokmål - by Allan Nordhøy
  • Indonesian - by zmni
  • Polish - by Michal L
  • Portuguese - by Sérgio Marques
  • Russian - by Nikita Epifanov
  • Traditional Chinese - by Jeff Huang
  • Turkish - by Oğuz Ersen
  • Ukrainian

This release contains two fixes:

• Fix crash on subscription update
• Do not show separator when neither label is visible in a video cell - this occured when a playlist is displayed

This release contains bug fixes, improvements on the NewPipe backend integration and lot's of translation improvements - big thanks to the translators and to the contributors !

• Using NewPipe backend for loading the playlists, and the trending videos.
• Update NewPipe backend to support latest YouTube changes.
• Code cleanups, minor optimizations contributed by @okan35 and @TacoTheDank
• Fix crashes in handling user inputs in the search field, and in the 'Enter URL' dialog.
• Fix a couple of possible source of memory leaks
• Added new translations for:
  • Berber - by Hakim Oubouali
  • Danish - by Vidar
• Updated translations for:
  • Swedish by Mattias Münster and Luna Jernberg
  • Portuguese - by ssantos
  • French - by Nathan

This release contains a couple of small bug fixes, and lot's of translation improvements - big thanks to the translators and to the contributors !

• The NewPipe backend is now the default, so the initial impression of the app will be better.
• Upgrade NewPipeExtractor to the latest, to eliminate parsing bugs
• Preference flags are saved into the backups - by @okan35
• Added menu option to bookmark valid video urls when long pressed - by @atomjack
• Add flags to enable resizing the window for better Samsung DeX experience
• Updated translations:
  • Chinese (Traditional) - by Jeff Huang
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Dutch - by Heimen Stoffels
  • German - by Milo Ivir
  • Hungarian - by Zsombor Gegesy
  • Indonesian - by zmni
  • Norwegian Bokmal - by Allan Nordhøy
  • Portuguese - by ssantos
  • Russian - by Nikita Epifanov
  • Spanish - by Julio Montero
  • Turkish - by Oğuz Ersen

This release contains lot of small bug fixes, and lot's of translation improvements - big thanks to the translators, (I hope I wrote their name properly). A bit warning, this will be the last release to support Android 4.0, as all the dependencies are moving away from supporting it, so backward compatibility is getting bigger, and bigger problem from the maintenance perspective.

• Better integration with other Android apps
  • Opening Youtube URL's from other apps should work better,
  • SkyTube now can detect better if it's a channel/playlist or video, even on hooktube.com or on invidio.us (or related) sites.
  • Bookmarking works better too (if it's not a video, then the app just opens the channel/playlist)
  • Clicking in the video description on channel or playlist links works too
• UI fixes which caused occasional crashes, due to timing issues.
• Better error messages if the user tries to subscribe to an already subscribed channel, or bookmark an already bookmarked video.
• added more playback speed options - by @okan35
• Restore Android 4.0 compatibility.
• Enable TLS 1.1/1.2 usage for Android 4.1 - 4.4, where it wasn't enabled by default.
• Updated translations:
  • Chinese (Traditional) - by Jeff Huang
  • Croatian - by Milo Ivir
  • Dutch - by Heimen Stoffels
  • French - by Jeannette Lavoie
  • Hungarian - by Zsombor Gegesy
  • Indonesian - by zmni
  • Norwegian Bokmål - by Allan Nordhøy
  • Portuguese - by ssantos
  • Spanish - by Julio Montero

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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

Small bug fix release to address critical issues with 2.96:

• Fix problem with Youtube API keys
• Use newer NewPipeExtractor to fix video downloading issue

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

• Chromecast support in SkyTube Extra
• Better off-line experience with the downloaded videos, and better handling of off-line startup, where lot's of information previously queried from YouTube, now the app can revert to use the already stored data.
• Fix screen saver prevention to only be active during playtime.
• Video watch status tracking is much more solid, many small bug were eliminated.
• Add ability to disable immersive mode.
• Improved search autocomplete experience.
• Version upgrades in lot's of dependencies (Using AndroidX component library).

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

• Emergency fix: Video playback error.
• Updated French, Japanese, Arabic and Turkish translations.

• Videos displayed within a channel or playlist fragment will no longer output the channel name given that the user is already within the channel fragment.
• App is now using newer third-party libraries.
• Updated French, Japanese, Indonesian, Spanish, Chinese (traditional), Turkish, Arabic, Italian, Polish, Persian, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese (Portugal), German, Dutch and Croatian translations.

• Added an option to enable/disable the video blocker.
• If the gestures control is disabled, the video brightness will be identical to those used by the Android System.
• Added preferred resolution when using mobile network (instead of WIFI).
• Added Persian translations.
• Updated Spanish, Portuguese (Portugal), Turkish, German, Polish, Italian, Croatian, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Russian and Chinese (Traditional) translations.

• Added Android 9.0 (API 28) support.
• Video gestures can now be enabled/disabled.
• Users are now warned before downloading/streaming videos on mobile network (such as 4G). This warning can be disabled.
• The video publishing date for downloaded videos is now displayed/calculated correctly.
• Lazy loading for tabs - potentially reducing network usage.
• Added option to automatically download videos to folders named after the channel.
• Added Croatian translations.
• Updated German, Polish, Spanish, Japanese, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Italian, Chinese (Traditional), Norwegian Bokmål, Russian and Dutch translations.
• Bug fixes and other minor improvements.