Add Option to grey out watched videos

[yy-385]

What is it?

• Bugfix (user facing)
• Feature (user facing)
• Codebase improvement (dev facing)
• Meta improvement to the project (dev facing)

Description of the changes in your PR

• Updated the UI to include a toggle switch in the Audio/Video settings page, allowing users to control the grey-out feature for unwatched videos.
• Modified the updateFromItem method in the StreamInfoItemHolder class to apply the grey-out logic based on the toggle’s state (on/off).

Before/After Screenshots/Screen Record

• Before:

• After:

Fixes the following issue(s)

• Fixes Allow hiding/graying out watched videos in the channel view #10614

APK testing

The APK can be found by going to the "Checks" tab below the title. On the left pane, click on "CI", scroll down to "artifacts" and click "app" to download the zip file which contains the debug APK of this PR. You can find more info and a video demonstration on this wiki page.

I Tested the APK using the Android Studio Emulator with the following steps:

1. Installed the APK on the emulator running Android 13.
2. Verified the toggle in Audio/Video settings enables and disables the grey-out feature correctly.
3. Checked that the grey-out effect applies to watched videos when the toggle is on.
4. Ensured the toggle setting persists after restarting the app.
5. Confirmed no crashes or unexpected behavior during testing.

The feature works as expected in both light and dark modes.

Due diligence

• I read the contribution guidelines.

[TobiGr]

Thank you for your PR. Due to the influx of new PRs review might take some time. Please let me know if you are an ANU student for internal statistics and because I am writing my master thesis about open source contributions as part of learning computer science and computer science education at university.

[sonarcloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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[yy-385]

Hi, @TobiGr , I am an ANU student.

[Stypox]

NewPipe is currently in maintenance mode and is not accepting PRs for new features, as explained on top of the README, especially niche features like this one.
Moreover, I see various issues with the code:

• no theming is applied to the grey color
• why is the graying out happening only in StreamInfoItemHolder and not on the local items too?
• loading positions in list is currently not handled so well, the refactoring should improve that

Thank you anyway for your contribution!