Android Video and Audio Downloader app with browser, player and custom downloaders

Disclaimer

This project was created for research and educational purposes to explore the downloading of a wide variety of video formats and stream types. The developer does not take any responsibility for illegal actions performed by users of this application.

Developer Support. Donations.

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Features

• Extensive Site Support: Download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Dailymotion, Vimeo, and over 1000 other sites.
• Advanced Stream Interception: Intercepts and downloads complex stream types like HLS (.m3u8) and DASH (.mpd), in addition to standard .mp4 video streams.
• Live Stream Downloader: Capture and save live video streams and live audio (e.g., radio) broadcasts as they happen.
• High-Performance AdBlocker: Integrated Rust-based ad-blocking engine for a cleaner browsing experience.
• Full-Featured Browser: A built-in browser to easily find content, with support for history, bookmarks, and cookies.
• Powerful Download Manager: Manages all your download tasks in the background.
• Offline Playback: Play downloaded videos and audio offline with the integrated player.
• Advanced Networking:
  • Proxy Chaining: Route your traffic through multiple proxies (HTTP, SOCKS) for enhanced privacy.
  • Encrypted DNS: Secure your DNS queries with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT), supporting standard and encrypted sdns:// URLs.

Thanks to @cuongpm, @yausername and @JunkFood02

Inspired from cuongpm/youtube-dl-android

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Major technologies

• Language: Kotlin first
• Architecture: MVVM (ViewModel, LiveData) with Repository Pattern
• UI: Android Views with DataBinding
• Dependency Injection: Dagger 2
• Concurrency: Coroutines & RxJava
• Database: Room
• Networking: OkHttp, libv2ray (Go)
• AdBlocker: adblock-rust (Rust)

How to run

A compact set of copy-paste commands to build the app on different OSes.

Prerequisites

To build this project, you need the following tools installed:

1. JDK 21
2. Android SDK & NDK (r27d recommended)
3. Go 1.26.0 (for networking components)
4. Rust:
   • Linux/macOS: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
   • Windows: Download and run rustup-init.exe from rustup.rs
5. C/C++ Build Tools:
   • Linux: sudo apt install build-essential
   • macOS: xcode-select --install
   • Windows: Install Visual Studio Build Tools (Select "Desktop development with C++") also ensure the following individual components are checked: ◦ MSVC v143 - VS 2022 C++ x64/x86 build tools (or latest) ◦ Windows 11 SDK (or Windows 10 SDK)

Build Commands

• Initialize Git Submodules (Required after first clone):

git submodule update --init --recursive

• Build debug APK (macOS / Linux):

# from repository root
./gradlew :app:assembleDebug

• Build debug APK (Windows CMD/PowerShell):

# from repository root (PowerShell)
.\\gradlew.bat :app:assembleDebug

• Build Go dependencies only:

./gradlew :app:buildAllGoLibraries

• Build Rust AdBlocker only:

./gradlew :app:buildRustAdblock

• Clean build artifacts:

./gradlew clean

• If go is not on PATH, override the detected go binary:

# macOS / Linux
export GO_EXECUTABLE=/opt/homebrew/bin/go
./gradlew :app:buildAllGoLibraries

# Or pass as Gradle property
./gradlew -PGO_EXECUTABLE=/opt/homebrew/bin/go :app:buildAllGoLibraries

License

This package is licensed under the LICENSE for details.