How do I stop NewPipe 0.27.0 from playing videos in FULL screen? about newpipe HOT 10 OPEN

Under settings > video and audio as always.

-Start main player in fullscreen
-Autoplay

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Sorry for the late response (busy day).
Both "Start main player in full screen" & "Auto play" were already turned off. Turning them back on & then off again does not fix this behavior. It may be specific to tablets (but not phones) or even specific to only Samsung tablets (happens on both my "Samsung galaxy tab A7" & my "Samsung galaxy tab S9"). Tomorrow, I'll record a video of it & the relevant settings, post it on Youtube, & then post a link to it here.

Also, on a guess, I tried rotating my device (to portrait mode), but while that does work, it only fixes this behavior in PORTRAIT mode, which I do not want to use. (Plus, I haven't found any "portrait" (youtube) videos to test that on.) Rotating my device back to landscape mode brings the behavior back.

Does NewPipe have any way to produce a "Logcat" file or some other kind of debug file? If so, I could email that to you. I've heard that there's an (android) program that can do that for other (android) programs, so I'll investigate that too.

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Here is the link to the promised video. I muted the sound while recording it (for file size reasons), so you won't hear anything. Also, while the "Full screen" behavior is demonstrated in this video, it turns out that the "Auto-play" behavior was because I had that (relevant) setting set to "Only on wi-fi". Changing it to "Never" does fix that behavior. I added more information about the video in it's "Description".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kATk6b0tDps

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Settings > Appearance > Tablet Mode > On

should give you your desired "windowed view". 😉

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That does fix it (finally), but it also causes a different problem. It took me a while to find the link, but the problem that this solution causes is reported here (ironically, the solution to that problem was to set "Tablet mode" to OFF, thereby causing the full screen behavior).
#11020
Despite what I reported (in that bug report), both of my tablets (Samsung galaxy tab A7 (android 11, not rooted) & Samsung galaxy tab S9 (android 14, not rooted)) are affected if "Tablet mode = On".
Essentially, if "Tablet mode = On", then I have extreme difficulty making NewPipe 0.27.0 scroll down (for a video's description), although after several seconds of repeated swiping, it eventually does scroll down. (Sometimes it can take up to 30 seconds of swiping!) So I'm left with either a solution to the full screen behavior or a solution to the "resistance to scrolling down on a video's description", but either solution also causes the other bug!

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As a last resort, try adjusting your Smallest width in Developer options. There might be some threshold value that prevents either or both the bugs, combined with the Tablet mode toggle.

If even that doesn't work, it's possible you'll have to wait for the rewrite to fix this or both bugs.

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I can't find any setting that is named "Developer options", so where is it located? Also, I expected to have to wait for a future version for a fix since I didn't know that it is possible for a retroactive bug fix. All bug reports that I make (for anybody's programs) are intended to let somebody know that a bug exists, allowing them to fix it in a future update.

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I can't find any setting that is named "Developer options"

Oh, interesting, are you new to Android? Here's a guide: https://www.xda-developers.com/android-developer-options/

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Oh, you mean ANDROID'S developer options. I thought you meant that NewPipe had a setting with that name. It's late now, so I'll try that tomorrow.

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