I was searching for any native(non-proxied) YouTube client for Android in kotlin.

I found this which is making me excited, but in the same time I am worried about its security and privacy that make me unable to install it.

Does anyone know the developer and is the app safe and private?

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I use Tubular, and this fork crashes hard when I import my DB (regardless of if I import the settings as well or not). Guess Iโ€™ll stay on Tubular since it just works (for now).

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Tubular works great and has SponsorBlock build in.

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I was searching for any native(non-proxied) YouTube client for Android in kotlin.

You can always turn off the proxying in LibreTube

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Dunno, but another fork popped up, recently on F-Droid. And I like it. Itโ€™s name is PipePipe.

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PipePipe has been around for quite some time, at least 2 years I believe

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What do you mean with non-proxied?

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Does not use projects like piped.

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Ah, ok, thanks

Was thinking like, opposite of native. Aber that didnโ€™t really made sense for me.

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Not using the Piped or Invidious API to proxy the video stream, since these tend to get blocked by YouTube really quickly

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@Andromxda @naeap itโ€™s odd but the mobile app versions of these proxies services seem to work longer vs the desktop versionsโ€ฆ #freetube for example, android app now connects, but desktop says you canโ€™t view since youโ€™re not logged in.

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Asking out of ignorance, is there anything wrong with NewPipe rn?

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The codebase is in Java.

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A good portion of Android itself is written in Java, and is not expected to get ported to Kotlin any time soon

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Whatโ€™s wrong with that?

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Iโ€™m sorry but that is really the dumbest argument that Iโ€™ve ever heard. How in the world does that affect the user when itโ€™s compiled anyways? If you want to modify the app then just do it in kotlin. They are interoperable

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Iโ€™m curious, why is kotlin interesting here ?

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