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/
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 Waydroid is insecure (outdated, rootful container), slow in development and only sandboxed on Fedora.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
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.
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It also doesnt bundle an often outdated version of Chromium, as found in Electron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
hey! don't be mean like that to my baby...
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
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.
Android apps on flathub will be lovely.
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
finally a non electron yt client, i also have another question does sober use the same method.
Sober uses the same method as
mcpe-launcherwith android minecraftOh
Electron apps suck and should die but for a YouTube player it seems appropriate
Man Electron takes so much resources tho
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
It didn't work on my Arch (btw) nor Fedora
Someone on HN earlier today mentioned they would fix the Arch issues
Wow
really buggy on fedora kinoite
feel you, brother
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.
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
It won't show a file picker for importing subscriptions so rip