A-EDev/Flow v2.0.0

Flow v2.0.0

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IMPORTANT: Package Name Migration

The application package name has been updated from com.flow.youtube to io.github.aedev.flow. This is a significant structural change. Please Backup your data before uninstalling the old version and download the new one

NEW FEATURES

• Content sorting in channel screen
• Search filters
• Clear video from feed when marked by "Not Interested", "Don't show channel", or "Mark as Watched"
• Continue watching mini-player with disable option in the Player Settings
• Add a mark as "not interested" and "want more like this" to shorts
• Audio Boost to 200% for supported codecs
• Auto video loop toggle
• Auto Theme based on system active Theme
• Subscription Notification Filtering
• Add a new StreamProxyServer for better Url handling during casting - This will avoid IP-locks and 403 errors

IMPROVEMENTS

• Improved video player action buttons design and sizes.
• Remove swipe to seek guesture and redesigned double tap seek
• Improved edge-to-edge display
• Redesigned Search bars
• Improved video thumbnail quality
• Channel screen Redesign
• Removed rewind video on privious click feature
• Removed redudant 3-dot menu buttons in the music quick actions menu
• More responsive video player dragging
• Sequantial content loading for channels
• Shorts screen UI and anti-repetition
• Improve player button clicks
• Search Keyboard & Focus Improvements
• Improve RSS service for Subscriptions
• Immersive Music Player with dynamic color extraction from album art
• Adaptive Grid layout for Search Screen

RECOMMENDATION ENGINE

• Fixed cross-topic contamination
• Removed dangerous lemma mappings
• Smoother scoring
• Consolidated 19 inline scoring factors into grouped helper functions for cleaner ranking logic
• Description keywords now skip sponsor copy, social media links, hashtags, and URLs before extraction
• Expanded blocked topic filtering
• New bootstrapFromWatchHistory()
• Shorts from subscribed channels get 3x subscription boost
• All feed paths (trending, Shorts shelf, home feed) now pass through the ranking engine
• Instant feed invalidation
• New Shorts discovery engine
• Channel Topic extraction
• Anti-Recommendation
• Watch Velocity
• Engagement Momentum
• Subscription Freshness

FIXES AND STABILITY

• Fix Unresponsive player when clicking
• Fix Default Auto Quality stuck at highest quality and improved thresholds
• Fix previous video rewind issue in queue
• Fix music playback issues from Music History & Likes
• Fix video playback issue on Fullscreen expansion
• Fix Subs tab Shorts sort order — old Shorts no longer appear at top of subscription feed
• Fix Non-Shorts videos under 2 minutes opening in shorts player
• Fix Sheets opening in full screen
• Fix Music Player "Up Next" Scrolling & End Indicator
• Fix Video Upload Time incorrectly showing offset due to timezone parsing
• Fix Notifications are faulty and videos lag at the beginning #156
• Fix [BUG] screencasting not working #161
• Fix Keyboard pop up & Focus in Search Screen

📋 System Requirements

• Android 5.0 (API 21) or higher
• Minimum 2GB RAM recommended

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v2.0.0