Install on Android

Video Tracker for Android is one app for phones, tablets and TVs with Android TV (on a TV it has its own screen — see Android TV). Everything it needs is already inside: install it and it works.

Ways to install

The Download section of the site lists every way available for your device.

From RuStore

Open Video Tracker in RuStore (on the site — Get it on RuStore) and install it. RuStore also installs its updates.

From Google Play

Open Video Tracker on Google Play (on the site — Get it on Google Play) and install it. Google Play also installs its updates.

The APK file from the site

This is the full version: it also downloads from YouTube and similar sites.

How the store and site versions differ

Most things are the same: every site with HLS and DASH streams, files and players on pages, sites behind a login, quality and audio tracks, the cloud, Free and Pro. The differences:

• YouTube and similar sites are downloaded only by the version from the site. Stores don't allow downloading from these sites, so the version from a store doesn't search there and says: Videos from this site are downloaded by the version of Video Tracker from video-tracker.ru. The home page of its built-in browser is video-tracker.ru.

• RuStore: Buy Pro opens the payment on the site; there is no Restore purchases — Pro belongs to your Video Tracker account. Update opens the app's page in RuStore, and RuStore installs the new version.

• Google Play: Pro is not sold in this version of the app — there is no Buy Pro and no Restore purchases. If your Video Tracker account has Pro (for example, bought on the site), sign in and it works here too. Updates come through Google Play.

• The file from the site: Buy Pro opens the payment on the site; updates come from the site, and the app installs them itself (Android asks you to confirm).

Which version you have is in Settings › About: “Video Tracker 1.0.42 (Store)” or “(Full)” or “(RuStore)”.

Sharing a link into the app

Where: Android · Plan: Free and Pro

In a browser, a messenger or any other app, choose Share on a link (or on text with a link) and pick Video Tracker. The page opens in the built-in browser and the videos on it show up as usual; from text, the first link opens. Where Android itself offers a choice of apps for a link (Open with), Video Tracker is in the list.

Video Tracker doesn't present itself as a browser: ordinary links and the sign-in to your account open in your default browser, without a choice window.

Logins to sites

Android doesn't let apps read the logins of other browsers, so sign in to a course or cinema once in the app's built-in browser. The login is kept between launches.

Downloads in the background

Where: Android · Plan: Free and Pro

Downloads carry on when you minimise Video Tracker, turn off the screen or swipe the app away from recent apps. While they run, a notification shows the progress and the phone doesn't fall asleep or drop Wi-Fi; when everything is downloaded, you get Download complete.

• If Android restricts Video Tracker in the background (battery saving, restricted background usage), Downloads shows a card Downloads may stop in the background with Open settings — straight to the right place. Once you allow it, the card disappears by itself.
• If Android stops a long download itself (Android 15 does it after 6 hours of background work), the download is Paused with the reason; Continue downloads the rest.

Notifications

Progress, Download complete and Download failed come as notifications. Android 13 and later asks once whether Video Tracker may send notifications. If notifications are turned off, the settings say Notifications are turned off for the app in Android settings. — turn them on for Video Tracker in Android settings.

Updates

Video Tracker checks for a new version at launch, when you come back to it and every few hours. How Update works depends on where the app came from:

• Google Play: the update downloads in the background, then Restart and update.

• RuStore: Update opens the app's page in RuStore, and RuStore installs it.

• The file from the site: the app downloads the new APK, checks it and opens the installation — Android asks you to confirm. The first time, Android asks you to allow Video Tracker to install updates: turn on Allow from this source in the settings that open and come back — the update continues by itself.

More, including the download tool for YouTube that updates by itself: Updates.