SwiftUI?

[anthonylavado]

I was thinking about moving the UI to use SwiftUI which will only work for iOS 13+ but it’ll be cleaner and simpler. I haven’t gotten around to writing it all yet though.

Originally posted by @r0arkin in #5 (comment)

[anthonylavado]

Obviously this will be dictated by the Jellyfin iOS Roadmap (which is still pending).

Just some points for reference:

• Our current iOS app is https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo
• The Expo app wraps a web view to the interface already on a Jellyfin server and thus takes advantage of design changes there
• The Expo can run on iOS devices as old as 10.0 or later (though that may not be accurate)
• We should review the iOS Device Support Timeline here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_devices#Timeline

[anthonylavado]

Without going in to further details at this time - do it.

[loligans]

Is this the repo were the tvOS app would go?

[anthonylavado]

@loligans That's correct. Right now it's a basic shell of an iOS app. Login to a Jellyfin server works, and playback for video items works.

[anthonylavado]

@r0arkin Let me know if you want to talk about the app's design at any point :-)

[s3rverro0m]

@r0arkin Let me know if you want to talk about the app's design at any point :-)

Definitely! Sorry, I’ve been crazy busy and haven’t gotten around to working on the UI.

[loligans]

@r0arkin @anthonylavado I’d like to help out with this project. Are there things that are ready to be worked on?

[s3rverro0m]

@r0arkin @anthonylavado I’d like to help out with this project. Are there things that are ready to be worked on?

I’m not working on anything specific right now since work has ramped up. 😕

[anthonylavado]

@loligans I haven't written up the iOS Client Roadmap yet, but it was discussed internally with some other Jellyfin project team members.

The basic goals here:

• Update the code with iOS 13+ as a target
• Fix API calls to return Video (Movies, TV Shows) and Audio (Music) properly
• Ensure basic playback of common formats
• Ensure communication with the server (playback progress, etc)

After that, we can get in to more things, like design, adding more format support/transcoding requests, adding download support, etc. Right now, it seems to work well enough for most video.

We're on the verge of releasing 10.6 for the server, so our time outside of that has gotten a little more limited. I'm happy to still answer questions though! You can always stop by the chat rooms too :-)