jluce50 118 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Came across this reddit post yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/4agx65/after_driving_away_the_only_android_dev_a/ I'm not sure how this will play out, but it looks like there is some serious infighting among the Kodi team about whether to keep developing for Android. I actually understand their reasons, but this would be terrible news for a LOT of people (including me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnappo 1593 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 I kind of doubt it will happen. But it is a big problem. These companies selling $70 Android boxes and saying 'comes with Kodi! Watch free movies!' is completely toxic to their credibility. At any rate, if it did happen people would just fork it. xnappo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 At any rate, if it did happen people would just fork it. Someone has: http://spmc.semperpax.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_slayer 103 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Haha, nearly the only dev driving/maintaining Kodi Android development for about the past year revived his old fork. Hopefully SPMC keeps library versioning down to the releases that are supported by the Emby add-on. I had problems with SPMC and the old sync add-on but the add-on has come so far since then. As to the devs and Android, I can't tell that there are any more than two actual contributing devs who would rather not see Android included unless (until) it is able to work the exact way they understand their linux boxes to work. I can't tell which is what, but it seems knowledgeable other devs have advised them against creating a rube goldberg architecture that doesn't adapt to anything other than linux or windows with desktop class processing. Most of the in fighting seems to spring from language barriers, but a few knowledgeable devs get overly annoyed with "bikeshedding" (which I had to look up the meaning of and then laugh at) by the main architectural driving dev. You can see a lot of this in-fighting sprinkled through different PRs and a few public posts. Hopefully they work things out, or at least SPMC continues to work with the Emby add-on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_slayer 103 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 One other thing, the few who publicly whine foul play about android "diminishing" their name or credibility with sponsors on one hand will promptly remind all users that kodi is not a "product" or "company" and they don't give a crap about funding, etc. I think they may be a little on the young side or the language barrier makes them seem juvenile in a lot of their arguments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jluce50 118 Posted March 18, 2016 Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 Hopefully they work things out, or at least SPMC continues to work with the Emby add-on That was my main concern. So it does currently work with the Emby addon then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnappo 1593 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 That was my main concern. So it does currently work with the Emby addon then? Yes, it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37113 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 emby theater for android? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redshirt 1487 Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 Tiamat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazgulled 11 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Yes, it does. Do you have it working with the latest (16.1.2) SPMC? Because I can't get it to work... I got a popup stating that the "Kodi" version is not supported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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