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> vanced.app

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I'd rather recommend this one:

https://newpipe.schabi.org/

At least it is opensource and works great.

I used NewPipe for a while and it was very nice, enjoyed how well it works. However I started wanting to see videos on my TV (Chromecast), and that's where the abilities of NewPipe fell short.

They have an open issue [0] since a couple years ago, but so far it is not a feature yet.

[0]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/668

Ditto. Exact same experience. It is great for what it is.

For me on top of that, my wife and I often join chromecast together, and she has an iPhone. Vanced is pretty much fully compatible with the official YouTube app.

it broke down for me after 10min of use. no amount of reinstall or cleaning cache helped.

Maybe coincidentally after the 10 minutes YouTube changed something? Once or twice NewPipe stopped working for me suddenly but an update helped. BTW F-Droid gets updates of NewPipe a bit later than GitHub it seems.

it has frail feet but it does work more often than not

Interestingly it's been working perfectly for me with no issues for almost 1 year. A bit surprised to learn that it is not stable for a bunch of people.

Well I think it's just a matter of lag between bugfix and updates on my side. Which means from time to time I get a guru error. Other than that it's quite stable.

They very recently moved to require an special additional app just for installing their new .apks file (which is a file containing multiple .apk inside), called SAI.

That would be fine by me, if it wasn't because SAI requires Android 5.0, while my Nvidia Tegra -like tablet (Xiaomi MiPad 1) is stuck on Android 4.4 :-(

(no, Lineage and friends is not a good replacement, they all break the camera, and yet worse, suck battery like crazy)

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