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Easy fullscreen #5594

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Describe the feature you want

Add a new fullscreen button to the row of big buttons below a channel name on a video preview screen.
Button bar should look like Fullscreen, Add To, Background, etc.
This new button should:

This new button should:

  1. Switch to fullscreen.
  2. Start a video if it is displayed as preview (not loaded, not paused)
  3. Hide on-screen controls.

Also, this button should improve the UI consistensy as all play modes will be grouped on the same button bar.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe it

With 0.20.XX version, you need to do 4-6 clicks to play video in fullscreen:

  1. Tap a video in a feed (channel, playlist, etc)
  2. Tap the video preview area for a video to start to play.
  3. Tap again for controls overlay.
  4. Tap a small fullscreen button (some pixel-hunting skills required)
  5. Tap again to hide controls (bug Controls remain on screen after switching to fullscreen before video has loaded #4950)
  6. Double-tap to rewind if I want to watch in fullscreen from the beginning.

Additional context

Other people also want easy fullscreen mode access.
Related issues (not full duplicates for my issue):

How will you/everyone benefit from this feature?

Fullscreen mode is the most natural way to watch videos. A lot of people prefer to watch videos in fullscreen. So, ability to quickly switch to this mode should greatly improve app usability.

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