This version brings support for Android Auto integration and allows you to add feed groups as a tab on the main page. Multiple improvements and fixes to the YouTube and SoundCloud implementations were made, and progress on the refactor continues steadily. Oh, and you can meet the team at FrOSCon!
  • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    As a note, you have to follow these easy steps to setup:

    • Go to the Android system settings
    • Navigate to Connected devices > Connection preferences > Android Auto (you can also find it by inserting “Android Auto” in the search box)
    • Scroll to the bottom until you find “Version”
    • Click multiple times on “Version” to activate developer settings
    • Press “OK” in the activation dialog
    • After activation, click on the 3-dot menu in the top-right and go to “Developer settings”
    • Scroll down until you find “Unknown sources” and tick the checkbox
    • Restart your phone
    • You should now be able to use NewPipe in the car interface!
      • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        Not only Google, but also the automotive sector. It’s almost guaranteed to have a lot of hoops to jump through till you can run a simple app like this.

      • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        I don’t know which phone you use, but for Graphene OS with sandboxed google play + auto, this is the way:

        • System settings
        • Apps
        • Sandboxed Google Play
        • Android Auto
        • Android Auto settings
        • (then continue from here with dev mode)
      • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        I did follow these steps and newpipe appears in my app list. However, the app doesn’t do anything besides showing a black screen.

  • Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Any chance it’ll work with just a Bluetooth connection as a music player in future? I jumped into my backup vehicle and my phone automatically connected to the deck and NewPipe came up on my phone automatically - but hitting play didn’t seem to do anything. Womp Womp

  • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I remember I’ve had problems finding android auto settings before. I thought I might be able to help, but this is what shows up on my end(On a Ulefone running mostly stock android).

    I think the other person who replied to you has a good suggestion though. For me, I can find it at “Settings” -> “Apps” -> “All apps” -> Android Auto -> “additional settings in the app”

    They sure don’t make it easy

  • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Was wondering why this isn’t showing up, but then I remembered, that I switched to PipePipe

    Not really following their development. Anyone knows, if are they merging such changes from NewPipe?

    NewPipe stopped working for me some time ago and that’s why I switched.
    Thought they stopped development altogether.
    Wasn’t there such rumour?

    • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      NewPipe have been working again for months for me. But until about a couple of weeks ago “related video” list in the video player was broken, didn’t show anything. It’s now works fine.

      But I also still have PipePipe any case either of them broken, I’m falling back to the other one.

      I don’t know about NewPipe developmet stop rumour, but I remember reading their readme.md that they’ve been working a significant rewrite of the app.

      • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Thanks for the input!

        I’m currently having PipePipe and Tubular in parallel.

        Hmm… Maybe I switched because of the integrated sponsorblock and I just wrongly remember that NewPipe development stopped
        Was quite some time ago…

    • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      PipePipe is a hard fork of NewPipe that doesn’t track changes from upstream. Tubular is a soft fork of NewPipe that does track changes from upstream. It’s explained in PipePipe’s README.

      • naeap@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Ah, thanks!
        At the time I switched to PipePipe, I was merely searching for a quick replacement, that still works.
        Wasn’t actually reading to much about it