Requirements: 5.0 and up
Overview: An alternative YouTube front end, for Android. LibreTube is not connected to google directly, instead it uses piped instances to load data and play videos. Therefore this app doesn’t need to use any of Google Services installed. Also there is no need for a YouTube account, and it’s FLOSS.
LibreTube is an alternative and free youtube app for Android. It requires no Google Play Service and allows users to access massive YouTube videos without login in a google/youtube account.
Features:
– Background video playback.
– Ad-free and simple UI.
– User accounts are supported.
– Manage your subscriptions.
– Subtitles integrated into the video.
– Explore trending videos and popular channels.
– Search videos you want without search filters
What’s New:
# v0.30.0
Important
We dropped support for split-ABI APKs. If you’re using an automated tool to download APKs, please adjust as necessary.
Note
## Release Highlights
– Fixed an error with playing videos
– Removed split-abi-apks
– Always remember playback speed
– Fast forward video on long press
– Improved sleeptimer with slow volume fade-out and quick-select buttons
– Display video chapters in timebar
– Include filtered search history in search suggestion
– Prefer untranslated video title if available
– Many more bug fixes and performance improvements
### New Features
– 0e9c0ca – remove release action (commit by @FineFindus)
– e9759bd – video player: improve touch gesture handling (commit by @dhanuarf)
– 4491a42 – video player: increase center screen gesture detection area (commit by @dhanuarf)
– 5ef3d89 – fast forward video on long press (commit by @Bilal-Ahmad123)
– 6d4f3d6 – DASH: remove unsatisfiable filter (commit by @FineFindus)
– 79548a9 – Backup: notify user about result of backup creation (commit by @FineFindus)
– 463b77f – Preferences: remove unused preferences (commit by @FineFindus)
– a7bb77b – LocalFeed: prefer untranslated video title if available (commit by @FineFindus)
– 947727a – Preferences: remove codec preferences (commit by @FineFindus)
– c9e22dc – video player: add visual feedback when fullscreen gesture is in progress (commit by @dhanuarf)
– d013ccb – video player: allow swipe up on the entire view to enter fullscreen (commit by @dhanuarf)
– a1c4772 – always remember playback speed (commit by @FineFindus)
– 6cbd129 – generate content-bound poToken (commit by @FineFindus)
– 4cd6507 – sleep-timer: show minutes left in player menu (PR #8034 by @PavelStefanov)
– 33448b7 – Player: display chapters in timebar (commit by @FineFindus)
– 2decf2b – Player: center chapter breaks (commit by @FineFindus)
– 993888a – improve sleep timer with smooth player volume fade out (commit by @PavelStefanov)
– 944f04f – add quick-select chips to sleep timer (commit by @PavelStefanov)
– e2f42f8 – SleepTimer: start timer immediately when selecting chip (commit by @FineFindus)
– 1cdb3e0 – SleepTimer: allow chip scrolling beyond screen-edges (commit by @FineFindus)
– a4f440e – SleepTimer: center buttons (commit by @FineFindus)
– 381538a – include filtered search history in search suggestion (commit by @dhanuarf)
### Bug Fixes
– 856b8fd – LocalFeedRepository: update subscribed channels (commit by @FineFindus)
– d72cd60 – video player: preview frame jumping around the screen when seeking (commit by @dhanuarf)
– dd7fa6c – Import: allow subtitles without URL (commit by @Bilal-Ahmad123)
– 5c3694d – deps: update dependency androidx.swiperefreshlayout:swiperefreshlayout to v1.2.0 (commit by @renovate[bot])
– 87d004c – occasional crash when opening YouTube link (commit by @Bnyro)
– 019b216 – crash when clicking chapters/switch to video in audio player before video loaded (commit by @Bnyro)
– 1411fcf – switching video in audio only mode opens video player instead of audio player (commit by @Bnyro)
– 2e41934 – initialize brightnessHelper before playerGestureController (commit by @FineFindus)
– 2ff9120 – Crash when starting online stream while offline stream in progress (commit by @shantanu1k)
– 435cf50 – deps: update media3 to v1.9.0 (commit by @renovate[bot])
– 8018b1d – deps: update dependency com.google.android.material:material to v1.14.0-alpha08 (commit by @renovate[bot])
– 845cd79 – video player: glitch when exiting from fullscreen on short videos (commit by @dhanuarf)
– 53b95e2 – avoid leaking SubscriptionsFragment (commit by @FineFindus)
– c50592d – prevent videos from moving to start when re-adding them to a local playlist (PR #8061 by @PavelStefanov)
– 14f2b3b – subscriptions button reset its state when scrolling (commit by @dhanuarf)
– bb0ad22 – deps: update media3 to v1.9.1 (commit by @renovate[bot])
– ccad908 – search query being added to history on back navigation (commit by @dhanuarf)
– fc1c5d8 – ignore missing re2j classes (commit by @FineFindus)
### Performance Improvements
– b7669eb – avoid second database call (commit by @FineFindus)
### Refactors
– 752c4f8 – remove local feed videos when unsubscribing (commit by @FineFindus)
– 0a95d96 – remove unnecessary this (commit by @FineFindus)
– 823ce93 – simplify finding PlayerFragment method in CustomExoPlayerView (commit by @dhanuarf)
– d9710c8 – implement video player gesture directly in onTouchEvent() (commit by @dhanuarf)
– 08e4f12 – move some initializations to constructor level in CustomExoPlayerView (commit by @dhanuarf)
– cc2585e – simplify some functions that has default parameters (commit by @dhanuarf)
– 37cd5e7 – define some constants in companion object (commit by @dhanuarf)
– b0e2ddb – remove unnecessary null assertion (commit by @FineFindus)
– 61f3201 – remove unnecessary lateinit modifier (commit by @FineFindus)
– 3eb429f – use elvis operator for early return (commit by @FineFindus)
– 344c781 – Player/ChapterTimeBar: initialize immutable variables once (commit by @FineFindus)
– f20defa – create sleep timer chips programmatically (commit by @PavelStefanov)
– fb23776 – move quick-select chips above time input field (commit by @PavelStefanov)
### Chores
– b75dd6e – mark notification frequency values as translatable (commit by @FineFindus)
– b9f1b2e – remove dead piped instances linking (commit by @FineFindus)
– 3864e6d – deps: update gradle to v9.2.1 (commit by @renovate[bot])
– 1cbec1f – deps: update actions/checkout action to v6 (commit by @renovate[bot])
– 90b5271 – deps: update actions/upload-artifact action to v6 (commit by @renovate[bot])
– ae69dc4 – remove no longer needed changelog script (commit by @Bnyro)
– fc9c639 – deps: update ilharp/sign-android-release action to v2 (commit by @renovate[bot])
– 0807875 – bump version to v0.30.0 (commit by @FineFindus)
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More Info:
https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTubeDownload Instructions:
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