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Straw

A Sulkta fork of NewPipe. Android YouTube client, Compose UI, Media3 player, with SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike baked in.

The extractor is strawcore, a Rust port of NewPipeExtractor exposed to Kotlin via UniFFI. No InnerTube/JS deobf code path lives on the JVM anymore.

Install

F-Droid repo: https://fdroid.sulkta.com/fdroid/repo

Add the repo in your F-Droid client of choice, then install Straw.

The app also self-updates from the same repo when an APK lands there with a higher versionCode.

What's in

Search, video detail, channel pages, playlists
Inline player + fullscreen + minibar + background audio + PiP
Media3 ExoPlayer (DASH / HLS / progressive / merged DASH chunks)
SponsorBlock auto-skip (categories user-toggleable)
Return YouTube Dislike on video detail
RSS-based subscription feed (fast — ~1s for 50 subs)
Hide-shorts / hide-paid / hide-age-restricted feed filters
Resume positions + watch history + search history
Local playlists, downloads (video + audio)
NewPipe-format settings import (subs + playlists + history)

What's out (on purpose)

Trending / algorithmic feeds. Subscriptions only.
iOS / desktop targets. Android-only for now.
Google Play Services anything.

Layout

strawApp/   Sulkta-authored app — Compose UI, Media3 wiring, SB + RYD clients
rust/       strawcore — UniFFI wrapper around the Rust extractor
shared/     KMP scaffold inherited from upstream NewPipe (unused for now)
app/        Upstream NewPipe :app module — kept for reference

Build

./gradlew :strawApp:assembleDebug

Requires the Rust toolchain plus the four Android targets:

rustup target add aarch64-linux-android armv7-linux-androideabi \
                  x86_64-linux-android i686-linux-android
cargo install cargo-ndk uniffi-bindgen

…and ANDROID_NDK_HOME pointing at NDK r27c (or newer). The Gradle build runs cargo ndk + uniffi-bindgen automatically.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later, inherited from upstream NewPipe.

Upstream

This repo tracks https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe. Upstream changes get pulled periodically via the upstream remote.

Disclaimer

Not affiliated with YouTube, Google, NewPipe e.V., the SponsorBlock project, or Return YouTube Dislike. Trademarks belong to their owners. Straw uses public web endpoints; nothing here authenticates to any account.

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