Flow

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• Aug 27, 2026 2.2.1
  # Flow v2.2.1 **Release date:** 2026-08-28 Enjoying Flow? Consider supporting its development on [Patreon](https://patreon.com/A_EDev) to help keep the app free, open source, ad-free, and improving! ## New features - Discord RPC support by @PastaHimself - TV UI support by @PastaHimself

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  - Drag left or right on the video to seek, with a toggle in Player Appearance settings - Hide Shorts across the whole app with a single switch, without deleting your saved reels - Play your subscriptions' Shorts as one queue in date order instead of a handful from a shelf #823 - Keep going with older Shorts from your subscribed channels once the recent ones run out - Show a progress line and a watched badge on Shorts you have already seen, in feeds and channel tabs #787 - Picture-in-picture for Shorts, off by default #571 - Choose whether a finished Shorts queue continues with recommendations or stops at the end - Choose a fallback video codec for videos that do not offer your preferred one, instead of always dropping to H.264 #812 ## Improvements - Slimmer player seekbar segment gaps #786 - Improve restricted content filtering #783 - Improve EQ and add it for video player #781 - Improve playback speed - Use standard media icons so Android Auto, Wear and system controls render them correctly - Show the player controls the moment you tap instead of waiting to see if a second tap follows - Add haptic feedback to seeking, the speed boost and the gesture controls - Follow your finger when swiping down to leave fullscreen, springing back if you let go early - Zoom the video as you drag up to enter fullscreen - Let pinch-to-zoom stretch past its limits and settle back when released - Scale the long-press speed boost from the current speed so it can never slow playback down #867 - Restyle the long-press speed indicator as a pill showing the speed it will actually apply - Ripple the tapped side of the screen when double-tap seeking - Offer every dubbed audio track and the full quality ladder on videos that provide them - Open the same Shorts queue from every surface, starting on the reel you tapped and letting you swipe back through the ones before it - Swipe through a channel's Shorts in the sort order its tab is showing #547 - Shrink the reel when the comments or settings sheet opens instead of hiding it behind them - Close the Shorts comments by tapping above them instead of pausing the video #891 - Apply your preferred video codec to live streams #727 - Show the frame rate in the quality selector, so a 60 fps ladder reads as 1080p60 rather than plain 1080p #847 - Show which address this device is advertising on the sync QR screen, so a failed connection is easier to place - Rebuild the device sync screens on Material 3, with clearer send and receive options, a line explaining everything you can sync, and an easier-to-read pairing code - Open comments beside the video on tablets in landscape instead of covering it with a sheet #918 ## Performance - Faster cold start and smoother scrolling - Lower idle CPU and battery drain - Ship a baseline profile and enable strong skipping - Rebuild ambient mode on a lighter render path - Move player setup off the startup path - Share card settings and watch progress across feeds - Consolidate playback position onto one tick - Add stable list keys across feeds and search - Load thumbnails at display size - Draw waveform and mini-player progress instead of laying them out - Start videos sooner by keeping remote signature decoding off the path to first frame - Reuse one attestation session across videos instead of re-running it on every open - Skip stream resolution for downloaded videos while offline - Stop paying for work Shorts never uses - Read audio preferences once per video instead of once per client attempt - Load the Shorts and music feeds before the work that only appends to them - Animate the seek bar without re-measuring it on every frame - Read the player overlay settings in a single pass instead of twelve - Stop pinch-to-zoom redrawing the whole player overlay on every frame - Keep the playhead from recomposing the controls several times a second - Draw the seek bar through one system instead of three overlapping ones ## Build and ci - Add automated Kotlin formatting checks with ktlint and Spotless - Reduce APK size with ABI-specific releases, resource shrinking, and dependency cleanup - Improve ABI-aware app updates and GitHub/FOSS release packaging - Speed up builds with KSP, Gradle caching, improved parallelism, and CI daemon reuse - Remove obsolete playback and download code - Fix ktlint rules not being applied by Spotless ## Fixes and stability - Fix playback media-session notifications missing metadata, artwork, controls, and seek state - Fix background subscription and update notifications not being delivered until the app is opened - Fix missing channel avatars in comments and replies with cached channel-avatar fallback - Fix a crash when playback notification artwork finished loading in the background - Fix the playback notification disappearing when the queue auto-advanced in the background - Fix videos cutting out around the one-minute mark on auto-dubbed titles - Fix playback stopping about a minute in and then retrying until it gave up #921 #922 - Fix the wrong audio track being requested on auto-dubbed videos - Fix the mini player expanding back to the full player while metadata was still loading - Fix playback on videos that only offer a server-side adaptive stream - Fix downloaded videos failing to play when offline - Add a mobile web fallback and a newer VR client for stream extraction - Fix crash issues - Fix a crash while typing in search when a suggestion contained certain non-Latin characters #934 - Stop music background tasks from running after the player is closed - Fix custom SponsorBlock category colours having no effect on the seek bar - Fix the cast and sleep timer buttons appearing a moment after the rest of the controls - Fix the brightness readout vanishing while you were still adjusting it - Fix swiping down to leave fullscreen committing even after you dragged back up - Remove the auto-translated subtitle languages, which YouTube almost always refused to serve, so picking one showed nothing - Fix a subtitle track other than the one you picked being used when two of them share a language - Fix Shorts stalling and playing only in H.264 #917 - Fix Shorts showing in the subscription feed while Shorts were turned off #903 - Fix Shorts appearing among the videos in your home feed - Fix the comments sheet sticking to the bottom of the screen in vertical fullscreen - Fix device sync failing whenever one of the selected collections was empty on this device - Fix your recommendation brain barely transferring during device sync, and never arriving from the desktop app at all - Fix unblocking a topic or channel never reaching your other device, which kept re-blocking it on the next sync - Fix sync sending your desktop the tunnel address instead of your Wi-Fi one when a VPN was connected - Keep every device's learned interests when syncing with a device that has synced with a third one - Fix Back abandoning the whole sync screen instead of returning to the previous step - Fix the empty band above the title on the sync screen - Fix Settings and Notifications being unreachable after turning off the home tab - Fix tablets dropping to the phone layout after leaving and returning to the app #909 - Fix tablets being locked into portrait after leaving fullscreen, with no way back to landscape #918 - Fix casting to Kodi and other players built on ffmpeg ending the moment it started #916 ## Dependency - Bump NewPipeExtractor to v0.26.5 - Update Gradle to 9.6.1 and Android Gradle Plugin to 9.3.1 - Update Kotlin to 2.4.10 with the Compose compiler plugin and KSP 2.3.11 - Update Hilt to 2.60.1 and Room to 2.8.4 - Update Coroutines and Serialization to 1.11.0 - Update baseline profile and benchmark tooling to 1.5.0-beta01 - Update Compose BOM to 2026.06.01 with Material 3 1.4 - Raise compileSdk to 37 - Update Navigation, Lifecycle, Activity, Core, WorkManager, Paging and CameraX - Update Gson to 2.14.0, Conscrypt to 2.6.1 and core library desugaring to 2.1.5 - Remove unused RxJava and multidex dependencies - Raise targetSdk to 36 for Android 16 platform behaviour - Update OkHttp to 5.4.0 and Media3/ExoPlayer to 1.11.0 - Update Coil image loading to 3.5.0 - Update Ktor networking to 3.5.2
• Jul 18, 2026 2.2.0
  ## New features - Add a local media library (play local on-device media) - Add new logo #605 by @AnharHussainMiah - Add new music recognizer feature (Based on Metrolist's implementation see https://github.com/MetrolistGroup/Metrolist) - Add custom mark as watched threshold settings - Add bottom navbar scroll events toggle - Add queue/playlist autoplay toggle - Add shorts search tab - Add new video ambient mode

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  - Add shorts UI customizations - Add new native local cross-platform sync - Add default codec selection for downloads #675 - Add hide music artwork option #639 - Add channel sorting options in subscriptions (default, name A–Z, recently updated) #498 - Add new vetrical video fullscreen drag gesture - Add community posts support - Add playlist loop and shuffle actions - Add app widgets ## Improvements - Improve media notification handling #577 - Improve video player settings sheet positioning #572 - Improve double tap seek gesture #520 - Add remove button "X" on continue watching shelf's cards - Improve SABR implementation - Bump NewPipeExtractor to v0.26.3 and set it as primary source with native SABR fallback - Bump Media3/ExoPlayer to 1.6.1 for more reliable background playback notifications - Apply default quality settings to live streams #576 - Add a full list of audio languages to the preferred audio language setting #580 - List all available captions, including auto-translated tracks - Improve AV1 codec handling - Improve mark as watched percentage - Add new share context toggle - Add toggle to show/hide overlay #604 - Add a delay config for autoplay #620 - Improve Emojis handling in live chat #617 - Improve chapters container #588 - Improve player Lock mode #619 - Improve player overlays and icons symmetry #654 #634 - Improve player drawer handling #659 - Update download settings screen's dialog heights #648 - Add support for all Youtube Music, piped and invidious Url formats - Add comment drawer in landscape #644 - Video Quality selection menu redesign #660 - Improve upcoming videos reminder #470 - Improve volume gesture and rotation handling - Improve Theme color schemes and add Theme Variants (Light, Dark, AMOLED) - Refine the subscriptions feed cards to match the home layout #678 - Onboarding screen redesign - Faster playback startup - Library screen redesign ## Fixes and stability - Fix Crashes from missing media notification provider #578 - Fix missing metadata on come live streams #574 - Fix video player stuck in a 403 retry loop #573 - Fix music audio equilizer settings saving issues - Fix out-of-memory crashes when refreshing or importing large subscription lists #603 - Fix lag when the bottom navigation bar hides or shows while scrolling - Fix playback crashes - Fix missing audio tracks - Fix "Failed to parse video data" errors - Fix videos playing in the wrong (AI-dubbed) audio language on some networks by always preferring the original audio track - Fix missing Shorts metadata - Fix missing playlist videos metadata - Fix icon backup crashes - Fix low-quality thumbnails in the subscriptions feed #678 - Fix custom player brightness leaking into PiP and the rest of the app #679 ## Engine - Improve measurements foundation, add evaluation harness and deterministic scorers - Imrove correctness and clean dead interest profile - Improve Signal integrity, ranking and impressions - Introduce related-graph for improved feed quality - Improve feed quotas to 40/25/25/10 instead of previous 50/40/10 - Fix scalar relevance dilution - Improve persona handling, and remove novilty cliff and filter bubble - Improve engine performace and avoid over-supression