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Let's be honest though, the Android app for jellyfin is so so buggy. My partner can't even use it because there are certain orders of starting a video, casting, closing the app, reopening to starting subtitles, recasting, just to get it working
Have you tried Findroid?
Never heard of it before. Thanks for mentioning it.
Says no Chromecast support. I'm also not sure why someone would develop a 3rd party app for jellyfin android when jellyfin is open source and they could just contribute to the main repo. Gives a weird feeling that makes me think it's either not going to be supported for long because it's an underplanned side-project or is doing something dodgy
Findroid is a complete rewrite of the Jellyfin app, merging it into the official one is unfortunately not feasible.
Don't go around calling long supported open source apps "dodgy". If you actually used the app you would know that its a completly different codebade. Feel free to audit the source code if its "dodgy".
Honestly, never touched the Android app. We use it exclusively on our TVs. I can see why that would be a breaking point for some people though!
Can you point me to the repository? I'm an android developer and looking to give back. Maybe I can fix a bug or two.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android
Not so hard to find, is it?
Not hard at all since you linked it. Hehe.
Seriously though, thank you.
Why be a dick? They were offering to help