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+---- Thread: Is there any interest in a 'Built for Jellyfin' Kodi build for Android? (/t-is-there-any-interest-in-a-built-for-jellyfin-kodi-build-for-android)
Is there any interest in a 'Built for Jellyfin' Kodi build for Android? - tmsrxzar - 2023-11-17
Without a doubt Kodi has all the playback/codec features one could need for Android but has downsides on the platform.
I was working on a stripped version of Kodi for the sole purpose and use for Jellyfin and I got curious if anyone else might be interested in a slim Kodi strictly designed for use with Jellyfin.
So far I've been able to build minimal components but there are still many more that are simply not useful to me.
Removed
Web Interface (keep json-rpc)
Metadata addons; Jellyfin handles this
NFS
SMB
UPNP
MariaDB
MySQL
Apple AirPlay
Working on removing integral components but they are Very integrated and it takes time to trace.
PVR*
Games*
RE: Is there any interest in a 'Built for Jellyfin' Kodi build for Android? - TheDreadPirate - 2023-11-17
I'm not, but I know there are a lot of Kodi + Jellyfin users here that would be.
RE: Is there any interest in a 'Built for Jellyfin' Kodi build for Android? - tmsrxzar - 2023-11-17
In that case I'll work on putting together something repeatable, less "Hack" and more "Production"
Building from v21 master so who knows what bugs might show up but it's getting close to v21 being a release so I don't really want to spend the effort on the last stable 20.2.
RE: Is there any interest in a 'Built for Jellyfin' Kodi build for Android? - tmsrxzar - 2023-11-20
Removing the entire "Games" subsystem is a f'n nightmare, it's retroplayer+games+controllers+service entries+listitem entries+infotaggame+peripherals.
With that much integration I can see the benefit of removing it already but it's taking a long time to work through everything while trying to be sure not to break everything and make it so I can perform the changes to a new git pull any time I wish.
Still working on it though.
RE: Is there any interest in a 'Built for Jellyfin' Kodi build for Android? - mcarlton00 - 2023-11-20
Before you get too deep into that, you might should consider that some people use a controller as their control point for Kodi. I generally use a remote, but sometimes I'll pick up the 360 controller depending on what I'm doing.
RE: Is there any interest in a 'Built for Jellyfin' Kodi build for Android? - tmsrxzar - 2023-11-20
Yea I sort of arrived at that too, I will need to go in depth into the Games and try to separate out the Controllers/Joysticks in order to leave them intact while removing the actual games support. "Games" might be more minimal than I am thinking and removing it's service entry as well as the RetroPlayer core might be enough to do what I want.
Initially I just removed games.txt from the cmake/treedata/common to see what all it broke.
RE: Is there any interest in a 'Built for Jellyfin' Kodi build for Android? - tmsrxzar - 2023-12-11
i have all but abandoned this for the time being, it really only benefits my "Kodi on Android" installations and i have dropped those in favor of CoreELEC which is a completely different build
(dropped because kodi on android is simply not a good experience)