LTT Ghosted Me, So I Made A Better Floatplane App (Background Play, PiP, & More!)
I'm a big fan of Floatplane, which was created by the Linus Tech Tips team to give creators an alternative place to host their unique content. However, the Floatplane iOS app was lacking some features I wanted, such as background play, picture in picture, and more, so I decided to build my favourite Floatplane app for myself...it snowballed pretty hard, and long story short there's even an Apple TV Floatplane app now 😅 (but I'm calling the app FloatNative).
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Links
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Download FloatNative through TestFlight: https://coulterpeterson.com/floatnative
FloatNative Features List
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Clean, streamlined, native iOS design
Watch Later and Playlists (through supplementary API)
"Enhanced LTT Search" (through supplementary API)
Auto Re-Login
Token login and QR code token login (to workaround the shut down V2 auth)
Native Picture-in-Picture support
Background play
Video download
Tappable timestamps
Light/Dark mode
iPad styles/support
Full-featured tvOS app from same codebase
tvOS Long press menu
tvOS Custom player controls
Screen stays awake during playback
Pretty icon that supports clear/tinted variants
Watch progress is saved very regularly (maybe too regularly as I think I get rate limited sometimes)
Live support (Untested though)
Chapters
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Why Rebuild Floatplane?
1:26 Starting Simple with Swift
2:33 Adding Native iOS Features
2:53 iPad Support
2:58 The Apple TV Version
4:05 Building the TV Experience
4:38 Adding Playlists & Watch Later
5:36 The Supplementary API
7:23 Building for Multiple Platforms
9:06 Speed Coding with AI
11:38 The LTT Story
12:18 Apple's App Store Roadblock
14:30 Open Sourcing & Final Thoughts
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