Android apps on flathub will be lovely.
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finally a non electron yt client, i also have another question does sober use the same method.
Electron apps suck and should die but for a YouTube player it seems appropriate
Man Electron takes so much resources tho
Sober uses the same method as mcpe-launcher with android minecraft
Oh
It won't show a file picker for importing subscriptions so rip
Wow this is awesome! Waydroid is insecure (outdated, rootful container), slow in development and only sandboxed on Fedora.
But that they take Newpipe... which is notoriously broken as Youtube tries to block everything...
Other apps are
- OSMAnd~
- OrganicMaps
- Grayjay
- Jerboa, Fedilab, Pixeldroid
- Amethyst, Voyage
Those are really unique on Android
it's worth noting that no actual security problems have been presented that haven't been dealt with, Sandboxing is available on any distro assuming the tools are made availible. Waydroid supports both apparmor and selinux, please report any security issues and tag the maintainers when doing so.
EDIT: you do need to set apparmor into enforce mode manually though.
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I've been using FreeTube on desktop and it has worked great (with VPN)
Freetube uses Electron. The Flatpak is 240MB in size, the Newpipe + Translation layer is 40MB
It also doesnt bundle an often outdated version of Chromium, as found in Electron
But I tried Newpipe Flatpak and it was blocked totally. May have been because of my VPN though. Freetube had the same issues.
Grayjay is king at block circumvention
Good to know, thanks. If the FreeTube flatpak is working for me, I might as well try the Newpipe one if it's that much better. I guess I just assumed that the translation layer would add CPU overhead.
I'll have to look into Grayjay. Is there a flatpak? I'm on immutable, so flatpak is much preferred.
Newpipe flatpak is totally broken XD
but it is more efficient, the translation layer is not an issue.
Actually, I am not sure what LocalSend and ConverterNOW use but those also look kinda like Android apps with GTK decorations.
Grayjay is android-only but a really nice cross-platform player. It is a framework with plugins, for nearly all streaming services... apart from Peertube??
I went from newpipe to tubular since it comes with sponsorblock, but iirc the backend is the same.
No VPN or anything, it works great.
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Which version of Newpipe are you using? You'll want to use their latest release repository rather than the 'stable' one, that seems to make it work.
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As the rule of thumb with FOSS projects, it has a horrible name
Time to rename it to one of the very creative FOSS project names
- yet another something (YAS)
- something is not other thing (SINOT)
- OpenSomething, FreeSomething, LibreSomething
- Something
- Periodic table
- Somethingify (this one is new)
Kudos to devs though. This is awesome
- KDE Advanced Something Editor (KASE)
- Gsomething
- Some random word. The worst ones I can think of are simultaneously Kleopatra and Seahorse. Guess what they do.
- "It's actually the name of an Indonesian fruit commonly eaten at celebrations..."
Yeah it's not open source unless the title is a garbage fire.
You forgot -XNG
Interesting concept, if it gets good enough I hope ubuntu touch adopts this because I'm not a big fan of waydroid.
It's still really basic, but has loads of potential, Unforunately it has a hard requirement on GTK, otherwise there are a few things that would have been nice for greater AX86 in general, for instance they have mediacodec->vaapi support, something ax86 has... struggled with in the past. but we can't use it since we can't use gtk.
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[Genuine] Okay, why when Freetube exists though?
People who are used to NewPipe can use it
Also this is more of a testament to Android on Linux rather than NewPipe on Linux
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This is not about Newpipe itself but more that fact that this is an Android app ran on desktop Linux, without any containers like Waydroid does. This is like Wine, but for Android apps.
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FreeTube doesn't always have 4k. I don't remember which format, but a video has to be a certain format to show as 4k. Majority of videos that are shot in 4k show as only 1080p on FreeTube. I welcome new pipe to linux and will actually be using it
Well, good news the newest update to Freetube now adds 4K+ support since they changed the library used to get the videos or something. I have tested it and the video says 4K and seems to be that. Feel free to correct me if you try the latest update and find any discrepancies.
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How is ATL's architecture different than Waydroid's?
I guess it's running a free ART implémentation? As Android runs on Linux there's at least no kernel translation layer to do
Does anyone know if this is the same way Sober is running the port of Roblox?
No, it's the same way as how mcpe-launcher works with android minecraft
Wow
Didn't work on my Arch (btw) and Fedora
Someone on HN earlier today mentioned they would fix the Arch issues
I wonder how does it work? New pipe is originally a portarit application for Android.
It translates the Android API to Linux desktop-compatible calls, just like Wine does for Windows apps.
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