pilipala

PiliPala is a third-party mobile app for BiliBili, the large Chinese video platform, built with Flutter. Flutter is a toolkit from Google that lets developers write one codebase and produce apps for both Android and iOS from it. PiliPala is a personal hobby project, not an official BiliBili product.

The app covers most of what a regular BiliBili viewer would want. You can browse recommended videos, trending content, and hot livestreams. There is a ranking chart, a drama series list, and a search page with history and sorting by duration or other criteria. The video player supports gesture controls: swipe vertically on the left or right side to adjust brightness or volume, swipe horizontally to seek, double-tap to fast-forward or pause, and long-press to play at two-times speed.

For signed-in users, the app handles follows, watch history, favorites, and a blocklist for hiding content from specific accounts. On video detail pages you can like, coin, or favorite a video, read comments sorted in different ways, reply to comments with emoji, and save screenshot images from videos. Dynamic posts from creators can be read and replied to as well.

Settings let you pick default video quality, audio quality, and decoder format, choose light or dark theme, enable high frame rate, and control whether the phone vibrates on certain actions. The current focus is phones running Android and iOS; tablet, desktop, watch, and web layouts are not yet covered.

The app is available through the Releases section on GitHub or through F-Droid, an open-source Android app store. The project uses publicly available BiliBili APIs and does not provide any means to bypass paywalled or locked content. It was made for learning and personal use.