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Free and lightweight YouTube frontend for Android
  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    4·
    2 months ago

    By “Developer of the Newpipe app”

    Hmm…

    Unverified

    It’s a “No” from me. I’ll stick to Freetube.

    For those unaware, being verified means it is packaged by the official developer/team.

      • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Don’t know why they’d put “Developer of the Newpipe app” as dev though

        My guess is that they did not want to take credit as the developer of NewPipe itself. As if to say “We did not develop NewPipe, we just packaged it as a Flatpak”. There is probably a better way to get that across in the byline, but I believe that is the intent.

        • adr1an@programming.dev
          1·
          2 months ago

          One could also think that whoever packaged this was hurried while filling a form, and wanted to provide credit where it was due. So, maybe they were on the best of their intents… We don’t know.

          If I were to use this, I would check other apps from same uploader. Or better, see what permissions are being asked…

          In any case, trusting blindly github contributors on teamnewpipe organization is not extremely different.

          Trust and credibility are volatile and freely given. It’s youtube, not my bank account ;p

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 months ago

    Android translation layer is interesting. Well, at least I personally like this approach more than that of waydroid. Also would be nice to see the performance of that with binfmt compared to that of waydroid + libhoudini

  • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
    2·
    2 months ago

    Is the android translation layer good enough to run games? And I wonder how we could manage controls for example in like codm.

      • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
        2·
        2 months ago

        The images in gitlab look mouse controllable. I should’ve phrased my question better. I was wondering how keyboard was translated. I could test it myself but I’m 99% sure codm wont work.

  • nutsack@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Gray Jay was awesome while it worked. unfortunately for me, YouTube sources simply spin forever instead of playing the video.

  • monkA
    1·
    2 months ago

    Love how when the dev of this felt compelled to link to atl, their browser gave them the link with /-/issues at the end. Really shows the effort that went into porting.

  • olof@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 months ago

    Does this run on x86/64 bit systems? Or this is for Linux smartphones more.

    • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      It says:

      Available Architectures
      aarch64, x86_64

      And it uses Android Translation Layer. Interesting. I’ll give it a shot on my desktop later.

    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      It is an appstore for Flatpaks. Flatpaks are a universal app package for Linux that runs in a sort of containerized environment. They’re very prolific in the immutable linux world.