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by trulyrandom 910 days ago
I remember there being talks of a complete rewrite of Newpipe. Did anything come of that? I'm a happy user, so I don't really have an opinion on whether it should happen or not.
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the-scrabi 910 days ago
Schabi here: The team wants to start the rewrite in 2024 after 0.26.0 got released. The reson for the rewrite: Codebase got hard to maintin so we need to refactor. Also android changed the UI style and the UI frameworks a lot. We want to stay up to date with that.
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sureglymop 910 days ago
How does one get involved? Are contributors welcome? – I know Kotlin and Jetpack Compose much better than the old ways of Android UIs though.
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the-scrabi 910 days ago
Yes. Contributors are abaoloutly welcome, and Jetpack and Kotlin is exactly what we are looking for. However we need to prepare and sort out things before we can start. Stay put and follow our blog to find out when we begin: https://newpipe.net/blog
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russdill 910 days ago
Pretty happy 0.26.0 went out first. There's a lot of big changes and fixes in there that really are huge steps forward in the app.
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