Color palette pulled directly from sulkta.com's stylesheet — the same
greens used on the website now drive the app theme:
#166534 deep green (light-theme primary, top app bar background)
#4ade80 bright lime (dark-theme primary, accents in dark mode)
#86efac light green (primaryContainer in light theme)
#e8f5e8 pale green (secondary container tint)
#d97706 amber accent (tertiary)
#374137 olive gray (secondary on light, container on dark)
Replaces the made-up forest palette from vc=23 with the real Sulkta
brand. Same M3 tonal-role mapping so derived surfaces stay consistent.
TopAppBar redone NewPipe-style: solid deep-green bar with white
"straw" title, white hamburger + search icons. Clear bold header
instead of the previous white-with-a-pill-underneath layout.
Material Icons swapped in everywhere we had emoji:
drawer Person / History / PlaylistPlay / Download / Settings
minibar PlayArrow / Pause / Close
fullscreen Speed / Headphones / Videocam / Share /
PictureInPictureAlt / KeyboardArrowDown
Pulled in material-icons-extended (4 MB APK growth, all icons).
Consistent renders across vendors; no more emoji font fallback drift.
FeedRow gets a NewPipe-style duration pill burned into the bottom-right
of every thumbnail (mm:ss / h:mm:ss). Live streams / mixes with no
duration leave it off.
Audit deferred-MED items addressed:
MED-6: dropped the PlayerService STATE_ENDED auto-stop. Service
shutdown is now driven only by onTaskRemoved + the minibar's ×.
Removes the implicit "we'll never queue" assumption and is correct
for a future autoplay/queue feature.
LOW-7: DownloadsScreen adaptive poll — 1s while a download is
active, 5s when idle. No more wasted DB queries when nothing
is running.
Brings the Phase U Android-side integration onto a feature branch
where the rust wrapper now bridges to strawcore-core (the new NPE
port) instead of rustypipe.
* strawApp/build.gradle.kts — JNA dep + cargoBuild + cargoBuildHost
+ uniffiBindgen + the merge/compile task wiring. libs.newpipe
.extractor dropped.
* StrawApp.kt — uniffi.strawcore.initLogging(); NewPipe.init() gone
* 5 ViewModels (Search/VideoDetail/Player/Channel/Subscriptions)
swapped to call uniffi.strawcore.{search,streamInfo,channelInfo}
* PlayerScreen + PlaybackService adjusted for the new StreamInfo
shape (dash_mpd_url / hls_url instead of NPE's manifests)
* IosSafeHttpDataSource carried forward — strawcore-core gives us
Android-primary URLs so the iOS cap path is mostly dead code,
but kept as belt-and-suspenders for the rare HLS-fallback
* NewPipeDownloader.kt + util/Thumbnails.kt deleted
Files taken wholesale from sulkta branch — the wrapper's UniFFI
surface is identical between sulkta (rustypipe-backed) and the
current Phase-7-bridged-to-strawcore-core code, so Kotlin doesn't
care which extractor is under the hood.
Phase U (rustypipe Rust extractor) rolled back. Symptom: black screen
on play, root cause: rustypipe 0.11.4's JS deobfuscator can't parse
current YouTube player.js (YT changed the obfuscation pattern, no
upstream rustypipe release since June 2025). Switching clients
(Web → TV → Android/Ios) didn't help — the deobfuscator init fires
universally.
Kept in place for the future:
- rust/strawcore/ Cargo workspace + UniFFI scaffolding
- crafting-table runtime install (rustup + 4 Android targets +
cargo-ndk + NDK r27c)
- The U-2..U-5 commits in history (re-runnable when rustypipe is
fixed or we fork it).
Restored from commit 9550b207a (v0.1.0-T):
- NewPipe.init() in StrawApp.onCreate
- libs.newpipe.extractor + libs.squareup.okhttp deps
- NewPipeDownloader.kt + Thumbnails.kt
- ViewModels (Search/VideoDetail/Player/Channel/SubscriptionFeed) on
NewPipeExtractor calls
- VideoDetailScreen Download dialog using NewPipe's StreamInfo
Future-direction memo: openclaw-workspace/memory/project_rustypipe_fork.md
— fork plan + revival path for the Rust extractor when we're ready
to maintain it.
Verified working in the Android emulator: dQw4w9WgXcQ plays, ExoPlayer
reports state=PLAYING(3), position advancing, video surface rendering.
channel_info(url) UniFFI suspend fn. ChannelViewModel +
SubscriptionFeedViewModel both swap. NewPipeExtractor (Java) is OUT —
zero org.schabi.newpipe classes in the APK now.
Cleanup:
- NewPipeDownloader.kt deleted (was the OkHttp adapter)
- Thumbnails.kt deleted (rustypipe returns full URLs)
- NewPipe.init() dropped from StrawApp.onCreate
- libs.newpipe.extractor removed from build.gradle.kts
- STRAW_USER_AGENT + strawHttpClient() now live in net/Http.kt
- RydClient + SponsorBlockClient + PlayerScreen + PlaybackService all
read from net/Http.kt instead of the extractor package
rustypipe API quirks beat:
- channel_videos(id) is the right method (channel() doesn't exist)
- ChannelInfo struct = basic metadata; Channel<T> wrapper carries
name/avatar/banner + .content is the paginator of videos
- description is String (not Option), subscriber_count is Option<u64>
End state: strawApp Kotlin is ~UI + thin glue to strawcore. The Rust
core handles search / streamInfo / channel / channel_videos via UniFFI
suspend fns. Tokio + reqwest + rustls + rquickjs all packed in
libstrawcore.so (~6MB per ABI). APK 40MB total.
Wraps the existing Activity-owned ExoPlayer in a Media3 MediaSession. Side
effects:
- Lock-screen media controls (play/pause)
- System media notification with play/pause buttons
- Audio focus + ducking (other audio dims when straw plays)
- Bluetooth + headset hardware-button routing
- Plays nicely alongside other media apps' notifications
The ExoPlayer is also configured with AudioAttributes (USAGE_MEDIA +
CONTENT_TYPE_MOVIE) and handleAudioFocus=true so other apps can request
focus correctly (e.g., a phone call ducks/pauses straw).
Also scaffolded but NOT yet wired:
- PlaybackService extending MediaSessionService — the foundation for
true background-after-Activity-kill audio. Manifest entry + deps
added (media3-session 1.4.1, concurrent-futures-ktx 1.2.0). The
Activity-to-Service migration via MediaController is M-3 work.
- POST_NOTIFICATIONS, FOREGROUND_SERVICE,
FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK, WAKE_LOCK permissions in manifest.
For the user right now: lock the phone while a video plays — media
controls appear on the lock screen. Open another app — notification with
play/pause sits in the shade. Press a headset's play/pause — straw
responds. Pull the home screen — PiP keeps the video floating + audio
continues. Full screen-off-background-audio after killing the activity
arrives in M-3.
New: SettingsStore (SharedPreferences-lite, same pattern as HistoryStore)
exposes a Set<SbCategory> StateFlow.
7 SponsorBlock categories surfaced as toggle rows in a new Settings screen:
sponsor (on by default), selfpromo, intro, outro, interaction (reminders),
music_offtopic (talking in music videos), filler.
Wiring:
- StrawApp.onCreate: Settings.init(this)
- StrawHome: new Settings gear icon next to "straw v0.1.0" header. Tap
routes to Screen.Settings.
- PlayerViewModel.resolve: reads Settings.get().sbCategories on resolve.
Empty set = SponsorBlock skip disabled (no API call).
Material-icons-core dep added (1.7.5) for the Icons.Filled.Settings glyph.
Day-4 ideas: theme override, default audio-only playback, preferred quality,
clear history buttons.
Phase A: NewPipeExtractor + OkHttp Downloader wired in. Search bar +
LazyColumn results. Tap = navigate to detail.
Phase B: VideoDetail screen — StreamInfo metadata + Return YouTube
Dislike chips + description.
Phase C: Media3 ExoPlayer in Compose. Resolves StreamInfo to best
playable: DASH MPD → HLS → combined progressive → merged
videoOnly+audio.
Phase D: SponsorBlock SHA-256 prefix lookup. 250ms position-poll loop
inside PlayerScreen — exoPlayer.seekTo(segment.end) when entering
a sponsor segment. Toast on skip.
Phase E: Verified live on Android 14 emulator. linus tech tips search
returns real results with thumbnails; tapped result opens detail;
hit Play → video plays through ExoPlayer.
Architecture: everything in :strawApp for now (not pushed into :shared
yet — KMP refactor is day-3). Pure-state nav (sealed Screen + stack,
no nav library).
Known polish gaps (day-3): RYD chips render empty on some videos,
description has raw HTML (markdown render needed), no Koin DI yet,
no persistence.
GPL-3.0-or-later per upstream NewPipe.
Initial Sulkta fork of NewPipe with a new :strawApp module that ships a
clean Compose-based Android APK at applicationId com.sulkta.straw.
What's here:
- :strawApp — thin Android application shell, MaterialTheme + StrawHome
Composable. Lives alongside legacy :app so we don't break upstream.
- buildSrc — STRAW_APPLICATION_ID/VERSION constants alongside the existing
NEWPIPE_APPLICATION_ID_OLD/NEW.
- docs/sulkta — RECON.md (NewPipe codebase breakdown) + DECISIONS.md
(stack + scope decisions).
NewPipe's :shared KMP scaffold is at 892 LOC and renders nothing; this
fork picks up there and races ahead. Day-1 ships a hello APK; day-2 wires
NewPipeExtractor + Media3 player + SponsorBlock + Return YouTube Dislike.
GPL-3.0-or-later per upstream.
