Xbox client

[seasharpuser]

Hello all! I was interested in writing a UWP for both windows as well as Xbox. I was curious to hear some thoughts and ideas regarding this, specifically in the form of functions people would like to see. I have already started this idea, but have received some negative feedback from users, so I thought i would create a forum topic to try and consolidate opinions.

This app will be written in C#, as a UWP to aim to support both platforms.

The primary push to me doing this, is that the current Jellyfin xbox app has no longer fit my standards of use, and seems to now be inactive.

[Venson]

Hey,

As of lately i started to take over the xbox app. That might take some time to bring up to speed.

The app itself is functional, mind a few smaller bugs here and there but out of curiosity what are you missing in features?

[seasharpuser]

Hey,

As of lately i started to take over the xbox app. That might take some time to bring up to speed.

The app itself is functional, mind a few smaller bugs here and there but out of curiosity what are you missing in features?

I was experiencing issues with the white borders along the xbox app. Ive since created my own app, as when I started this project, there were no commits being made to that app. I may have to take a look back into the original xbox app in that case if you have started work on it.

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Hey,

As of lately i started to take over the xbox app. That might take some time to bring up to speed.

The app itself is functional, mind a few smaller bugs here and there but out of curiosity what are you missing in features?

But the biggest goal I have in mind, vs the app you're referring to would be full controller support. I plan to map each button to its own function.

[www]

I joined this forum specifically to volunteer to tackle the Jellyfin on Xbox issue. It's *really* bad, and I'd love to make (or participate in) a remake of the app, maybe even from scratch as a native/DirectX application rather than WebView (which is the source of many of the problems present).

[Venson]

I joined this forum specifically to volunteer to tackle the Jellyfin on Xbox issue. It's *really* bad, and I'd love to make (or participate in) a remake of the app, maybe even from scratch as a native/DirectX application rather than WebView (which is the source of many of the problems present).

We have a few updates in the pipeline that will soon be released, namely an upgrade to WebView2 which will solve quite a lot of issues.
However PRs for features and issues are always welcome, https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-uwp

If you want to discuss new features, either start a discussion on GH or come in chat and ask in the client-development channel.

[seasharpuser]

I joined this forum specifically to volunteer to tackle the Jellyfin on Xbox issue. It's *really* bad, and I'd love to make (or participate in) a remake of the app, maybe even from scratch as a native/DirectX application rather than WebView (which is the source of many of the problems present).

We have a few updates in the pipeline that will soon be released, namely an upgrade to WebView2 which will solve quite a lot of issues.
However PRs for features and issues are always welcome, https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-uwp

If you want to discuss new features, either start a discussion on GH or come in chat and ask in the client-development channel.

Where is there a jellyfin client-development channel? The only reason I have yet to post on GH is due to the lack of time to create a proper formal write up.

[theguymadmax]

https://jellyfin.org/contact

[seasharpuser]

Thank you everyone for your feedback. I will continue to use my standalone application myself, and will remove it from the Microsoft store. I apologize to the 1.7k users of the application for the sudden removal, however I plan to just submit PRs to the main project as that seems to be preferred by the jellyfin organization. If anyone has additional information on the preferred way to submit an application (NOT ENDORSED BY JELLYFIN), I would appreciate it if you could point me in that direction. I have no interest in using Matrix anytime soon and want to make it abundantly clear that my apps are made specifically for me and should not be confused with an official Jellyfin app.