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## Description

This PR adds the ability to customize the home page in-app

### Features
- Add, remove, & reorder rows
- Persist the configuration locally
- Save the configuration to the server, allowing to pull down on other
devices
- Adjust view options for rows such as card height, image type,
preferring series images, or aspect ratio (similar to libraries)
- Pull down the web client's home rows (no plugins are supported yet!)
- Preview of the home page which is usable & updated as changes are made

### Row options

These are row types that can be added in-app via the UI:
- Continue watching
- Next up
- Combined continue waiting & next up
- Recently added in a library
- Recently released in a library
- Genres in a library
- Suggestions for a library (movie & TV show libraries only)
- Favorite movies, tv shows, episodes, etc

Additionally, there are more row types that don't have a UI to add them
(yet):
- Simple query to get items from a parent ID such as a collection or
playlist
- Complex query to get arbitrary items via the `/Items` API endpoint

### Dev notes

Settings are loaded in order:
1. Locally saved
2. Remote saved
3. Fallback to default similar to Wholphin's original home rows

The remote saved settings are stored via the display preferences API.

I know some server admins would prefer to push a default setup to their
clients. This PR does not have that ability, but it does define a
straightforward API for defining the settings. Something like the
potential server plugin work started in #625 could be slimmed down to
expose a URL to be added in the load order.

I'm also investigating integration with popular home page plugins to
allow for further customization, but will take more time.

### Related issues
Closes #399
Closes #361
Closes #282
Related to #340
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Wholphin - an OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin

"Never half-phin two jellies. Always wholphin one jelly."

Wholphin is an open-source Android TV client for Jellyfin. It aims to provide a different app UI that's inspired by Plex for users interested in migrating to Jellyfin.

This is not a fork of the official client. Wholphin's user interface and controls have been written completely from scratch. Wholphin supports playing media using either ExoPlayer or MPV.

Current Release Translation status
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Features

User interface

  • A navigation drawer for quick access to libraries, favorites, search, and settings from almost anywhere in the app
  • Integration with Jellyseerr to discover new movies and TV shows
  • Option to combine Continue Watching & Next Up rows
  • Show Movie/TV Show titles when browsing libraries
  • Play theme music, if available
  • Customize subtitle style for plain text subtitles
  • Search & download subtitles (requires compatible server plugin such as OpenSubtitles)
  • Customize layout grids for libraries
  • Multiple app color themes
  • Protect user profile switches with PIN code

Playback

  • Different media playback engines:
    • ExoPlayer w/ optional extra audio & AV1 software decoding
    • MPV for direct playing anything plus ASS subtitle support
  • Plex inspired playback controls:
    • Using D-Pad left/right for seeking during playback
    • Quickly access video chapters & queue during playback
    • Optionally skip back a few seconds when resuming playback
  • Live TV & DVR support
  • Auto play next episodes with pass out protection
  • Option for automatic refresh rate & resolution switching on supported displays
  • Trickplay support
  • Subtly show playback position along the bottom of the screen while seeking w/ D-Pad

Roadmap

See here for the roadmap

Installation

Using Google Play or Amazon appstore are the fastest way to install. But you can follow these instructions to install without needing an app store

Downloader Code: 8668671

  1. Enable side-loading "unknown" apps
  2. Install the APK on your Android TV device with one of these options:
    • Install a browser program such as Downloader, use it to get the latest apk with short code 8668671 or URL: http://aftv.news/8668671
    • Download the latest APK release from the releases page or http://aftv.news/8668671
      • Put the APK on an SD Card/USB stick/network share and use a file manager app from the Google Play Store / Amazon AppStore (e.g. FX File Explorer). Android's preinstalled file manager probably will not work!
      • Use Send files to TV from the Google Play Store on your phone & TV
      • (Expert) Use ADB to install the APK from your computer (guide)

Upgrading the app

After the initial install above, the app will automatically check for updates. The updates can be installed in settings.

The first time you attempt an update, the OS should guide you through enabling the required additional permissions for the app to install updates.

Note: if installed via an app store, the app store will handle updates.

Compatibility

Requires Android 6+ (or Fire TV OS 6+) and Jellyfin server 10.10.x or 10.11.x (tested on primarily 10.11).

The app is tested on a variety of Android TV/Fire TV OS devices, but if you encounter issues, please file an issue!

Jellyseerr integration is tested with v2.7.3. Older versions may not work.

Contributions

Issues and pull requests are always welcome! Please check before submitting that your issue or pull request is not a duplicate.

If you plan to contribute, please read the contributing guide!

You can help translate Wholphin!

Acknowledgements

  • Thanks to the Jellyfin team for creating and maintaining such a great open-source media server
  • Thanks to the official Jellyfin Android TV client developers, some code for creating the device direct play profile is adapted from there
  • Thanks to the Jellyfin Kotlin SDK developers for making it easier to interact with the Jellyfin server API
  • Thanks to numerous other libraries that make app development even possible

Additional screenshots

Movie library browsing

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Movie page

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Series page

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Playlist

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