• upgraded gradle to 8.9
• updated AGP to 8.5.1
• first step in large restructuring
• some code cleaning
• fixed issue with back-pressed
• media3 is back upped to 1.4.0 and legacy format issues resolved
• some stability enhancement
• known issue: download of mp4 file still not working correctly

• fixed null pointer bug in time conversion that prevent some new installs
• revert back to media3 1.3.1 for support of legacy subtitle formats used in some feeds

• updated various dependencies
• media3 updated to 1.4.0
• NewPipeExtractor is updated to v0.24.2 to fix video play problem

• upgraded Kotlin to 2.0.0
• updated various dependencies
• NewPipeExtractor is updated to v0.24.1 to fix video play problem

• suppressed Log.d message in release app
• changed kapt to ksp

• fixed the issue of androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException on Android 9

• fixed issue of sometimes no video when setting auto play
• fixed issue (seen on my Android 9 devices, not on S21 Android 14) of no video when screen is turned back on

both of the above appear related to setting video size to 0 at some point, in code inherited from Java.

Issues

seen on my Android 9 device:

androidx.media3.exoplayer.ExoPlaybackException: MediaCodecVideoRenderer error, index=0, format=Format(160, null, null, video/avc, avc1.4D400C, 111557, null, [256, 144, 30.0, ColorInfo(BT709, Limited range, SDR SMPTE 170M, false, 8bit Luma, 8bit Chroma)], [-1, -1]), format_supported=YES

There is already an open issue on androidx.media3

• fixed crash bug when opening a channel
• changed file picker mime type from "application/json" to "*/*" for importing subscriptions as some pickers don't recognize "application/json" causing json files not enabled
• fixed the issue of bottomsheet not expanding on Android 14 - Google requires an explicit broadcast.
• corrected sending and receiving broadcast messages for Android 14

• various bug fixes
• further media3 tuning
• some services like download, feedload, fetcher are now started as background services

Issues

Download process runs through but gets invalid mp4 files

The "something went wrong" popups don't seem to indicate anything important. Printed a stacktrace when it happens, basically:

 org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not get comment id
 org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not get comment text
 org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not get author thumbnails
 org.schabi.newpipe.extractor.exceptions.ParsingException: Could not get publishedTimeText

Noticed these Logcat messages on my S21 Android 14

BufferQueueProducer     org.schabi.newpipex.debug.main       W  [SurfaceView[org.schabi.newpipex.debug.main/org.schabi.newpipe.MainActivity]@0#1(BLAST Consumer)1](id:195c00000001,api:3,p:6492,c:6492) detachBuffer: slot 41 is not owned by the producer (state = FREE)
BufferQueueProducer     org.schabi.newpipex.debug.main       W  [SurfaceTexture-1-6492-0](id:195c00000002,api:3,p:6492,c:6492) detachBuffer: slot 50 is not owned by the producer (state = FREE)
BufferQueueProducer     org.schabi.newpipex.debug.main       W  [MediaCodec.release](id:195c00000003,api:3,p:6492,c:6492) detachBuffer: slot 42 is not owned by the producer (state = FREE)

• app built to target to SDK 34
• set bottomsheet to collapsed when video view is closed, rather than hidden.

Issues

The reason to set it to collapsed is this: on my S21 Android 14 device, bottomSheetBehavior!!.setState(BottomSheetBehavior.STATE_EXPANDED) doesn't expand the bottomsheet, whether it was hidden or collapsed. Originally, the bottomsheet was set to hidden, so when starting a new video from the list, the view is still invisible, making it appear like nothing is happening.

Now it's set to collapsed, so when a new video is starting, on S21 Android14, the user need to manually expand the bottomsheet.

On my Android 9 device however, expand on play is automatic.