Jellyfin AndroidTV Client Thread

Quick update, i'm well and ok and still plan to work on the app. I just had several things happen at once, new job, family emergency and the official v0.15 has major rewrites and i need to adapt my changes from the 0.14 version step by step and cant just merge my 0.14 into the official 0.15 branch. The family issue is ongoing and will occupy me until the end of January.
I also still use my Zidoo so i'm motivated too keep working on my version, so no worries.

 

Thank you and welcome back! family first.

 

Thanks for the update Andy, hope all is OK with the family.

 

Nice to see you back mate - as @Gilgamesh rightly said, family first, so I hope all is well.

 

No rush, no pressure. Just relieved that you're still with us.

 

Glad you are okay. hope the new job is a better situation for you and that your family situation calms down.

 

Glad to see you may have seen my email yesterday Andy22, and that you are healthy in the new year. WB to Zidoo Community. Take all the time you need. Family is everything.

 

I am a software development engineer but I have never worked on an Android app (or any mobile app). I think that I want to get involved here to help lighten your load and help push the project forward. Please let me know whether there is anything easy I can help with.

 

Hi all, I am looking at purchasing a Zidoo Z9x and from all my research I haven't quite found the answer I am looking for and hoping you can help.

Everything about the Z9x meets my requirements for use in home theatre room but I need it to work with a media server as I have multiple displays in other rooms that will all use the same library stored on a nas. I want a solution that will share the watched status across all displays and also be able to pause on one display and continue on another.

Will this fork of Jellyfin do this and if so, will it compromise anything on the Z9x?

 

Yes if you use Jellyfin server it works.

 

And to add, it does not compromise anything on the Z9X in any way.

 

Ok great, so do I need to use Jellyfin client on Zidoo or can I still use HT4 and just have Jellyfin as a server?

 

You need to use the Jellyfin app but it uses the built in Zidoo player.

 

Ok great, thanks for the confirmation.

 

Thank you so much for your help. I will be purchasing a Z9X and start learning Jellyfin.

 

Just a quick clarification. I don’t think jellyfin plays BDMV or ISO, but since Jellyfin client is using Zidoo as player, can BDMV/ISO be playable via app. Posts earlier seemed to suggest it isn’t possible, but I wasn’t clear if that was Zidoo client issue or Jellyfin issue, or both. Is there hope???, because this Jellyfin Zidoo client sounds promising. Thank you

UPDATE: I see on GitHub that this is a requested enhancement. Good news if it can happen.

 

Hi,

This Jellyfin client looks very nice, thank you for your work.
May I ask how does it compare to Jellyfin for Kodi add-on, used with ZDMC?

Thanks.

 

Kodi addons does not use the Zidoo player with ZDMC, already tried with Plex addon.

 

Thanks. I thought Jellyfin for Kodi was an exception, but I trust you on that.

 

Ok all, i'm officially back and working on the next version. All life/personal issues have been resolved and i made time in my schedule to work on the fork!
We had a mayor 0.15 official client release, we are still based on 0.14. The 0.15 only had minor feature/bug fixes, yet under the hood a lot was changed. So i need to manually merge the upstream version with my fork. So the only new feature planed for the next version is the relaxed layout, aka more spacious layout options for the wife-approval factor. After that i need to sort the old wish/bug list and can also accept new feature request.

@AngryVirginian While i have some personal beef with upstream, i still recommend to check if working on the official client makes more sense for you. If you specifically want to help on this fork, than sure there is a long bug/feature request list. You will mainly need to get into Kotlin, took me a few weeks to get into this language. I also switched to java-19 for the fork, so i could use some recent features, but try to avoid java at this point. Yet as noted, i need to merge the upstream 0.15 version first and manually adapt a lot of my changes, so we have a clean base to work for 2023.