Media Bar in Android TV

[Jamie Chapman]

@niels,

Would it be possible to incorporate @M0RPH3US Media Bar into the Android TV app? 

He has put a lot of effort into making this an incredible addition to the Jellyfin Home page (starting with some previous work from others that he gave a huge shout-out to), for web clients, JMP, Android mobile app, and even a report that it looks great in the WebOS client as well.

I can attest that it is solid, though it is a WIP that he is continuing to refine to get object placement just right across screen resolutions. At the moment, with all of the recent changes, it looks fantastic and really spices up the home page in a way that makes the entire Jellyfin experience feel just right.

The forum notes on the project are here, with a lot of movement in the past few days of @M0RPH3US making some needed adjustments so that it displays well in all of the standard clients noted above:  Jellyfin Media Bar

And the GitHub page is here:  MakD/Jellyfin-Media-Bar: A Jellyfin Featured Content Bar to show off your media collection

Some screenshots showing off the media bar in various environments:

@M0RPH3US, yes, I tweaked my button container to bring them closer together, now that you made this possible with the adjustments from yesterday. I am using 13em, which seems to look great in all clients, as opposed to the 16em the css is defaulting to, which felt a little too far apart IMO. 

Chrome (4K screen):

   

Edge (4K Screen):

   

JMP (4K Screen)

   

Android Mobile Landscape (I cheated here, since my Pixel 9 landscape does not do the full layout justice. Screenshot taken from sideloaded Jellyfin 2.6.2 apk on Android TV 14 virtual machine at 1080p):

   

Android Mobile Portrait:

   

[niels]

Our official clients (Android TV app included) have a "no third-party integrations" policy. Which means, we will ONLY support the official Jellyfin server and no-more. The "mod" you mentioned (we call is "web client hacks") is something we do not support, we do not endorse web client modifications at all and we'll definitely not take those over in other clients.

If this feature became part of Jellyfin itself (e.g. API added to the server, making it work with the existing home section code etc.) it will become a candidate for the ATV app. Unfortunately the way the home page works needs a bigger overhaul so it won't be an easy change and will need proper discussion in our meta discussion repository on GitHub.

[Jamie Chapman]

Sounds good, thanks for the quick reply and details. Understood. In short, it's complicated, and no shortcuts. I'll put in a feature enhancement request, after I figure out where the best place to do this is.

I'm also looking to get involved. Heading over to the main site and doing some reading so I don't waste anyone's valuable time on questions that have already been answered on the site.

Thanks again.

[Rubén Navarro López]

That is definitely the feature I'm looking for on Android TV, but I have a question about what you mentioned.

Why is the Android TV version different from webOS?

If I'm not mistaken, the media bar should be visible on webOS.

[niels]

The Android TV app is not a web wrapper client.

[Ted Hinklater]

"mods"