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- Thumbnails + channel icons stay cached: pin an explicit 256MB Coil disk cache + sized memory cache via SingletonImageLoader.Factory. Coil's default disk cap is 2% of the device's free space, so on a storage-tight phone the subs feed (most image-heavy screen) thrashed it and re-downloaded thumbnails on every visit. - SponsorBlock + Return-YouTube-Dislike clients moved Kotlin -> Rust (strawcore net.rs: fetchSponsorSegments / fetchRydVotes). SponsorBlock keeps its privacy-preserving SHA-256 hash-prefix lookup. Kotlin is now a thin shim mapping the FFI records onto the SbSegment/RydVotes domain types; behavior identical. Migration #2 of "all backend -> Rust". - Fix crash: extract_channel_id sliced the channel URL by a length derived from a lowercased copy of itself; to_lowercase() can change byte length on non-ASCII, so a non-ASCII URL tail could panic across the FFI and abort the app on a feed refresh. Now matches the prefix case-insensitively against the original with length + char-boundary guards. - Fix autoplay hijack: advancing to the next video resolves over ~500ms; if you manually start a different video meanwhile, autoplay would replace your choice with the stale next-up. Added a staleness fence. Verified: cargo check/test/clippy on the wrapper, full Android compileDebugKotlin green, adversarial FFI pre-push audit passed. |
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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.