🚀 Flow v1.3.0: The "Personality" Update

This is our biggest update yet! v1.3.0 introduces a brand new way to visualize your interests, a completely revamped Player experience with new gestures and Chapter support, and critical fixes for Music downloads.

✨ New Features

• 🧠 Flow Personality: Added a new "Personality" section in Settings. You can now visualize your interests and watch habits in bubbles/charts based on your local brain file (vector data). Includes option to reset personality data.
• 👉 New Player Gestures:
  • Drag Right anywhere on the player to seek forward.
  • Drag Left anywhere on the player to seek backward.
• 📑 Video Chapters Sidebar: You can now view and interact with video chapters via a new sidebar menu in the player.
• 🔔 Subscriptions Management: Added a dedicated manager for your subscriptions and improved the Subscription screen UI.
• 📂 Search in Downloads: You can now search specifically within your downloaded library.
• 🎨 New Themes: Added support for Light Mode and more theme options.
• 🏠 Downloads Shortcut: Added quick access to Downloads directly from Home/Nav.

🛠 UI/UX Improvements

• Settings Redesign: Completely redesigned the Settings screen for better navigation.
• Search UI: Improved the main Search interface.
• Player UI:
  • Improved overlay placement.
  • Swapped Save and Share button positions for better ergonomics.
  • Improved playback speed and buffering performance.
• Music & Audio:
  • Added "Unlike" button to Liked Songs.
  • Added option to Remove Track from History (Music).
• Visuals:
  • Improved description content rendering.
  • Updated Shorts icons/logos in Navigation and Library.
  • Improved Notification message icons.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 🚑 Critical: Fixed broken Music Downloads.
• Pip Mode: Fixed Auto-PiP issues. Added a Manual PiP toggle and a "Player Only" PiP mode.
• Visual Glitches:
  • Fixed empty channel images on Home screen.
  • Fixed low-quality thumbnail rendering on Channel screen.
  • Fixed displaced dates in video cards.
• Logic:
  • Fixed repeated content appearing from the same channel on Home.
  • Fixed Liked Videos accidentally opening in the Shorts player.
  • Added checks for video validity in Shorts notifications.
• General: Fixed various random crashes and stability issues.

⚡ Performance

• Flow News Algorithm: Improved integration for better news feed recommendations.
• Notifications: Added container storage logic for better notification handling.

💡 Developer Note

This release marks a shift from stability to feature expansion. The new Personality Engine allows you to see exactly why Flow recommends what it does—keeping our promise of transparency and privacy.

Full Changelog: v1.2.7...v1.3.0