Hi guys just wanted to know in your opinion which one of the Android yt clients have integrated dearrow and SponsorBlock extensions features in the most complete way (like the desktop extension). Edit: Thank you all amazing people for the feedback. I gonna use pipepipe (which doesn’t have dearrow) for now since Freetube android seems like needs more polishing for now and LibreTube doesn’t work for me (both of these have implemented SponsorBlock and dearrow)

  • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    There’s also a FreeTube Android fork, but it’s not on F-Droid

    https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid

    Highly recommend FreeTube on Desktop, though, if you are still in the browser. Has Dearrow, SponsorBlock, and a ton of options, plus a couple of Firefox extensions where you can redirect any YT links to open in FreeTube. Also uses Invidious on the backend.

    https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

    • kixik@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 day ago

      Well, it is available on the IzzyOnDroid separate f-droid repo, so if using the f-droid client, you can still grab freetubeAndroid with it.

      Never tried it though, and not sure how bloated for a phone, but it’s easy to install/update with any f-droid client.

      • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Yea, I noticed that, but I have never used or heard of IzzyOnDroid before. Not sure why we need an abstracted layer for F-Droid.

        I don’t usually recommend things I haven’t vetted myself extensively.

        • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          Not sure why we need an abstracted layer for F-Droid.

          Because the default F-Droid repository has some security issues: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

          IzzyOnDroid avoids this by using prebuilt binaries that are properly signed by the actual developers, instead of building and signing apps themselves like F-Droid does

          It also doesn’t have as strict inclusion criteria as the default F-Droid repo, so it is able to offer more apps

          • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            19 hours ago

            I see, I’ve never looked super deep into F-Droid or released anything there, I didn’t realize that a requirement for releasing on F-Droid was that they build it. Just read their inclusion criteria, interesting.

            ETA: Read through the whole article, and godamn. I don’t really trust anything Android any way, but this is actually a pretty damn big WTF from F-Droid. Thanks for sharing!

    • merlin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Thanks I’m already using freetube Desktop with libredirect like you suggested. Didn’t know there is an Android app too