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Add touch screen controls now that Youtube vanced is gone.
Youtube vanced is gone they got a C&D from fucking google. Unfortunately this seems to be one of the only alternatives to replace vanced eventually whenever the api breaks. Bit tragically there's barely any touchscreen support (at least Bluetooth & usb controllers work).
Newpipe doesn't come close they don't support youtube logins so you have to manually import them. This app in combo with smarttubenext may be the only way going forward because newpipe is so minimal. Vanced will work for now but who knows how long.
Im neither saying for or against.
but you can replicate much of the functionality if vanced by simply using mobile youtube webpage with addon like ublock of firefox/iceraven (or whatever webbrowser with adblocking).
the YouTube mobile app is pretty just the webbrowser anyway with some added features.
I would also like to see a finger friendly STN, but its explained in Issue #236 why it is not going to happen...
I would like to have touch supported STN too. I understand why this project cannot build it, but we could potentially use youtubeapi this project uses as submodule and build out a phone app. But it's very easy to build out flutter app than java based android app. If someone can help me get a compiled version of submodules into an aar or jar file, i can build using that.
Signing in to youtube on a mobile-friendly port might be a bit clunky. Instead of using the "Sign in with Google" system, it would have to probably give you a code to enter on a web browser that you sign in using and then go back into the app to sign in. This is because smarttube next uses youtube tv's api and not youtube desktop's api.
I would also like to see a finger friendly STN, but its explained in Issue #236 why it is not going to happen...
Also YT vanced was shut down because it used youtube mobile as a base so they basically redistributed youtube mobile illegally.
I would also like to see a finger friendly STN, but its explained in Issue #236 why it is not going to happen...
@rsunde I don't see a clear answer in #236 why phone support is not going to happen. As @amberdambey pointed out, Vaced got shut down because of using redistributed youtube mobile with it. It is very different from how STN works. STN doesn't have this problem.
Now Vaced is shut down. Newpipe doesn't support account login. STN is the way better than any open source youtube client out there. It will be great to bring STN onto phones and tablets.
There is a Q in the FAQ talked about not supporting smartphones. But it is just an assertion rather than an explanation. Can we have some explanation on the rationale behind the decision why smart phone support is not planed?
It is probably more productive to point out the technical difficulties to support phones and tablets, or give some guide on how to add such support, so someone can help to contribute.
