I wanted to automatically open youtube videos in tubular (a newpipe fork) on my tablet, so I tried enabling the links in the settings but none of them showed up in the menu and I simply got a message telling me “0 supported links” as shown below (the “add” button doesn’t do anything). It isn’t a bug with the app as it works fine on my phone and I tried it on other apps which showed the same issue (including ones installed from the play store instead of fdroid).

Things I tried:

  • Rebooting my device
  • Trying different permissions for the app
  • Resetting my device’s settings
  • I didn’t try reinstalling the app but, as I mentioned, I tried installing other apps which also had the same problem

For reference the tablet is a lenovo tab K11 on android 13, it was also issued to me by my school although I doubt that’s what’s causing the issue.
My phone is a pixel 7 pro running android 15 (grapheneOS)

Does anyone know what’s causing the issue and how to fix it.

  • EpheraEnglish
    4·
    11 hours ago

    I think, I once had it that another app had already registered being the default for all those links and that’s why they wouldn’t show up for another app. So, maybe you have to clear the default-association for the YouTube app?

    • DevCuber@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I already did that, I also tried deleting YouTube entirely (as mentioned by another commenter), but it didn’t change anything. I also get the same error on all other apps, so it probably isn’t an issue with YouTube links specifically.

      • EpheraEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        When you click a YouTube link in an app, it doesn’t either give you the prompt to open Tubular, does it (now that you’ve cleared the default)?

        Another rather hacky idea, is to use UntrackMe: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizeme/ If your OS allows you to select UntrackMe as the default app for YouTube, then that should allow you to manually select Tubular in the UntrackMe app picker.

        But yeah, it sounds to me like your OS is borked or maybe somehow locked down by your school.
        Each app declares the links it supports in its AndroidManifest.xml file, which seems to work correctly for Tubular, given your phone detects it. When you click a link in an app, this app sends a so-called “Intent” to the Android System, which the Android System then checks and sees that the app is trying to open a link and that it happens to be a youtube.com-link.
        Then Android either already knows the default app to use for YouTube links or it presents you an app chooser with a list of apps that support these kind of links. But yeah, that won’t work, if it fails to read the list of supported links from the AndroidManifest.xml in the first place, which is what it looks like, since that settings entry should simply show what’s declared in the AndroidManifest.xml.