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> why does it even mention termux in the first place? We built the python and ffmpeg executable in a termux environment(docker image) for better dependency management and cross compilation...

> a library rewrite Not really, if you take a look at the [initialize part](https://github.com/yausername/youtubedl-android/blob/e6e89c83952ff0785c66fe218ef3782d9a206f80/library/src/main/java/com/yausername/youtubedl_android/YoutubeDL.kt#L70C2-L70C2) of the library, you'll notice that we'll only need a valid zip file to be...

> Where this zips would be hosted? Similarly, we can host these binaries in the release section of a separate GitHub repository

Here is some additional input if anyone is interested in this: the executable files themselves (`libpython.so`, and `libffmpeg.so`), need to be packaged and shipped along with apks. And the files...

To ensure that dependencies are downloaded and loaded after the first cold start, we need to design a reliable process that includes exception handling, downloading progress tracking, and the ability...

It's directly downloaded from yt-dlp's GitHub release

the `yt-dlp` file. refer to https://github.com/xibr/ytdlp-lazy/issues/1

This PR is quite large (4000+ LoC) and hard to review. Could we please split it to smaller and more focused PRs, each addressing a specific topic?

> The changes that are necessary for this functionality require all the work put into this PR We can just make a pull request depending on another, which means a...

> I have to create different branches with manual changes I'm afraid you'll have to do so by hand since github doesn't support such cool pull requests while gitlab is...