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flypig

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Research Data Scientist, Hut 23 of The Alan Turing Institute. Software developer and Sailfish OS evangelist. Occasionally craves adventure and a good thunderstorm.

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The FOSS on Mobile devroom schedule is out!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/foss-on-mobile/

It's going to be a great day of talks on AOSP, Mobile Linux and more; covering the full stack from SoCs to app ecosystems.

14 full length talks, 7 lightning talks, 23 speakers.

A mobile phone showing lots of logos on the screen: postmarketOS, MNT, AndroidOS, ubports, mobian, CalyxOS, NemoMobile, Sailfish OS, AOSP, PureOS and Droidian. The logos are just a selection; they don't represent the actual projects with talks in the devroom.
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The deadline for submitting to the FOSS on Mobile devroom, , is Monday 1st December.

Just a few more days! Don't forget to get your submission in 📮

It was a brilliant event last year, this year is a full day and even more topics.

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003687.html

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The FOSS on Mobile devroom is returning to FOSDEM in 2026! Always an amazing experience: great talks and a brilliant audience.

This year it's grown to a full day and all FOSS on Mobile topics, including AOSP.

Got an interesting mobile project or topic? It's a great place to share. Submission deadline 1st December.

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003687.html

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dev diary day 81. Mopping up the few remaining ownership errors 🧹

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1314&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 80. Repeated replies and my attempts to understand the Qt/QML memory ownership model: an unholy alliance between managed and garbage collected memory.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1313&list=newpipe

Four screenshots of the app. The first is captioned 'Select a video'; the second 'Long tap a comment to view the replies'; the third 'The replies populate the model' and the fourth 'Go back and the comments are wrong!'. In theory the comments shown on the second and fourth images should be the same, because the user went forwards and then back again. But become the replies page shares a model with the main video page, the comments have been incorrectly replaced with the replies on the video page.
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dev diary day 77. The intricacies of combining an expander with a context menu for comment items.

I'm taking a short 7 day break from posting these dev diaries, but rest assured I'll be back on Monday 2nd June to pick up where I've left off!

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1308&list=newpipe

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I am on holidays in Rome, and have roamed Rome too much - I won't be able to come up with a Weekly Update tonight.

Depending on how things go, I may be able to compile it tomorrow - if not, we're going to have a double feature next Sunday.

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@linmob Enjoy your very-well-deserved break! 🇮🇹

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dev diary day 75. Comparing the three different comment formatting options: fixed height; variable height; and expandable/collapsable! 🪗

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1306&list=newpipe

Four screenshots, all showing a video titled 'The Chemical Brothers - The Test (Official Music Video)'. From left to right the screenshots are captioned 'Fixed height comments', 'Variable height comments', 'Collapsable comments' and 'Collapsable comment expanded'.
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dev diary day 74. The third comment option: expandable comments! 🪗

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1305&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 71. Adding comments to the video page. Just the initial design.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1302&list=newpipe

A screenshot showing the video page. The video at the top is brightly coloured with the title 'Spam in Every Difficulty!' below which are three comments. The comments aren't real, they're are just random sentences.
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dev diary day 68. Proper quality-of-life improvements! Adding video controls so it's not necessary to watch videos from beginning to end without pausing, rewinding or forwarding.

Also C++ modules!

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1298&list=newpipe

A screen-captured video showing search for a video ("c++ modules") followed by a single video being selected (entitled "Demo C++20 modules"). The capture demonstrates video controls, including position slider, play and pause.

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dev diary day 66. Some kind of milestone: a video player that plays videos 🎞️ 😄

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1296&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 65. Adding a page to play the videos 📹

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1295&list=newpipe

Three screenshots. First the harbour-newpipe app showing the search page with 'newpipe' entered as the search term. The third item in the list has the title 'How to install NewPipe'. A red arrow links this video to the next screenshot showing the video page with the top half of the page showing the thumbnail for the video with the title underneath. The third screenshot shows the equivalent page in the NewPipe Android app, with info about the video underneath the thumbnail.
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dev diary day 65. Moving forwards with app permissions and adding the little thumbnail images in the search listing! 🖼️

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1294&list=newpipe

Two screenshots. On the left the NewPipe Android app showing results for the search term 'test'. On the right the same search using harbour-newpipe. Both pages show a list of results each with a thumbnail image to the left and the title of the video to the right. More detail is shown in the Android app.
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@fabrixxm I don't own a PinePHone (I feel like I really should do) so I've not been following along as closely as I should have, but @piggz has been doing amazing work.

https://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/documentation/wiki

I believe @dryak is running SFOS on a PinePhone Pro and may be able to share some experiences.

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dev diary day 63. Or 0b111111 if you prefer 😃

Today I got the search results hooked up to the front end, so the application finally has some functionality! It's still early days, but making progress.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1293&list=newpipe

Three screenshots showing search working in the app. The first shows the search term 'sailfish os' with nine search results showing. The second shows the search results for 'NewPipe'. The third shows the same search term but scrolled down the page and with the keyboard closed.
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I have a Lumbago, so in all likelihood, I won't be able to publish another installment of the "Weekly Update" tonight. Sorry about that!

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@linmob As others have said, your health is the most important thing. I hope you can stay comfortable and recover quickly. All the best!

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dev diary day 61. Finally an asynchronous YouTube search invoked from a Sailfish OS app.

There's no feedback to the user interface yet, no way to play videos, in fact no much of anything. But it's a base to build on.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1291&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 60. Some final cmake wrestling to be done.

Getting the executable to identify the library location at runtime.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1290&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 57. Finally a running app with a user interface and linked to the NewPipe Extractor library.

It's not yet functional, but it'll make for a good base to build on.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1286&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 56. Finalising the Docker build container (still using Debian Buster... maybe it'll be a proper Sailfish OS install in the future).

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1285&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 52. Time to rebuild the NewPipe Extractor library for aarch64 again, but this time my phone isn't gong to cut it!

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1281&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 51. Integrating the native-build Java library into the Sailfish OS sfdk build pipeline.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1280&list=newpipe

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My device is up to date, running version 5.0.0.57. I'm happy to see a bunch of bug fixes rolled out; thank you @jolla team for another smooth and straightforward update.

Sadly I forgot to capture a shot of the update screen summarising the changes beforehand, so here are the release notes for the curious:

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-tampella-5-0-0-67/22916

The Sailfish OS Settings app's update page. The image at the top of the screen is of the Tampella buildings in Tampere overlooking the Tammerkoski rapids . The text says "Sailfish OS Tampella Version 5.0.0.67. Up to date". There's also some advice about backing up: "It is recommended that you make a backup before updating your device."
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dev diary day 40. Finalising the Micronauts integration ⚛️ and finalising the comment viewing code 📝

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1269&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 39. Systematically checking which of the Micronaut changes are actually having an effect.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1268&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 38. Gradually getting to grips with Micronaut ⚛️

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1267&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 33. Good progress so far:

✅ Service select
✅ Search
✅ View metadata
✅ Download media
✅ Open media

Now it's time to move on to comments 🖋️

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1262&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 29. Building out the interface and drilling down into the metadata of an individual search result.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1258&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 24. Adding a menu to switch between the services: Bandcamp, MediaCCC, PeerTube, SoundCloud and YouTube.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1253&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 23. Plenty to cover today! Discussing the benefits of native builds; an upstream PR from @thigg ; and the genesis of an app built around NewPipe search.

Exciting stuff!

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1252&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 19. Json arrays 📜 and fruitful discussion with @thigg on reflection, localisation and search 🥝🍐🥭

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1248&list=newpipe

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dev diary day 17. Mostly I spent the day installing Android Studio!

Not what I'd call an exceptionally productive day!

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1246&list=newpipe