NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer
NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer
This is really interesting stuff, found it on Hacker News. It's like WINE, but for Android <-> Linux: https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/
It won't show a file picker for importing subscriptions so rip
finally a non electron yt client, i also have another question does sober use the same method.
Electron apps suck and should die but for a YouTube player it seems appropriate
Man Electron takes so much resources tho
Sober uses the same method as
mcpe-launcherwith android minecraftOh
As the rule of thumb with FOSS projects, it has a horrible name
Time to rename it to one of the very creative FOSS project names
- yet another something (YAS)
- something is not other thing (SINOT)
- OpenSomething, FreeSomething, LibreSomething
- Something<framework name>
- Periodic table
- Somethingify (this one is new)
Kudos to devs though. This is awesome
- KDE Advanced Something Editor (KASE)
- Gsomething
- Some random word. The worst ones I can think of are simultaneously Kleopatra and Seahorse. Guess what they do.
- "It's actually the name of an Indonesian fruit commonly eaten at celebrations..."
Yeah it's not open source unless the title is a garbage fire.
You forgot -XNG
Android apps on flathub will be lovely.
Wow this is awesome! Waydroid is insecure (outdated, rootful container), slow in development and only sandboxed on Fedora.
But that they take Newpipe... which is notoriously broken as Youtube tries to block everything...
Other apps are
- OSMAnd~
- OrganicMaps
- Grayjay
- Jerboa, Fedilab, Pixeldroid
- Amethyst, Voyage
Those are really unique on Android
I've been using FreeTube on desktop and it has worked great (with VPN)
Freetube uses Electron. The Flatpak is 240MB in size, the Newpipe + Translation layer is 40MB
It also doesnt bundle an often outdated version of Chromium, as found in Electron
But I tried Newpipe Flatpak and it was blocked totally. May have been because of my VPN though. Freetube had the same issues.
Grayjay is king at block circumvention
I'm using NewPipe daily and it doesn't seem broken at all?
You use a VPN?
it's worth noting that no actual security problems have been presented that haven't been dealt with, Sandboxing is available on any distro assuming the tools are made availible. Waydroid supports both apparmor and selinux, please report any security issues and tag the maintainers when doing so.
EDIT: you do need to set apparmor into enforce mode manually though.
hey! don't be mean like that to my baby...
How is ATL's architecture different than Waydroid's?
I guess it's running a free ART implémentation? As Android runs on Linux there's at least no kernel translation layer to do
Does anyone know if this is the same way Sober is running the port of Roblox?
No, it's the same way as how
mcpe-launcherworks with android minecraft
This is great. This gives me hope for Linux mobile 🙏🏽
They really shot themselves in the foot by going straight to phones.
The better way would have been to work on tablets first and working out all the bugs on larger devices with a limited feature set before moving into phones with the attendant issues of regional cell bands and restrictions.
Interesting concept, if it gets good enough I hope ubuntu touch adopts this because I'm not a big fan of waydroid.
It's still really basic, but has loads of potential, Unforunately it has a hard requirement on GTK, otherwise there are a few things that would have been nice for greater AX86 in general, for instance they have mediacodec->vaapi support, something ax86 has... struggled with in the past. but we can't use it since we can't use gtk.
[Genuine] Okay, why when Freetube exists though?
This is not about Newpipe itself but more that fact that this is an Android app ran on desktop Linux, without any containers like Waydroid does. This is like Wine, but for Android apps.
Thanks for explaining!
People who are used to NewPipe can use it
Also this is more of a testament to Android on Linux rather than NewPipe on Linux
Ah, okay. Thanks for explaining!
FreeTube doesn't always have 4k. I don't remember which format, but a video has to be a certain format to show as 4k. Majority of videos that are shot in 4k show as only 1080p on FreeTube. I welcome new pipe to linux and will actually be using it
I wonder how does it work? New pipe is originally a portarit application for Android.
It translates the Android API to Linux desktop-compatible calls, just like Wine does for Windows apps.
Newpipe works great on tablets too, a lot of Android apps have a landscape mode
Didn't work on my Arch (btw) and Fedora
Someone on HN earlier today mentioned they would fix the Arch issues
really buggy on fedora kinoite
Well yes, it's still early days and very much WIP. But the fact it works at all is amazing and shows what can be done with more work.
feel you, brother
Wow