bigverm23 2 Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Cant seem to find how to enable thumb images for the main media screen on Roku. Seems to only want to show a primary image with no option to switch to thumb... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37008 Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Hi, are you talking about the app home screen? We don't currently have options for that, but it's possible for the future. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speechles 1917 Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 (edited) @@bigverm23 <3 You must have used Blue Neon Night on Roku. It allows this. The official Emby app does not.. yet. The official app only lacks this because we haven't had time to get there yet and keep consistency. The other apps have this so consistency dictates that the Roku app needs it too. We need this on our tracker. I checked and we never have had anyone request the ability to change between poster and thumb. So first off lets get it on the tracker. Then internally discuss and give it priority. Thanks for reminding us that everything in Blue Neon Night isn't there. There is the "Also Watching" as well we lack that Blue Neon Night has but that is on our feature tracker (issue #79 [Request] "Also Here" missing). Oddly the poster/thumb preference isn't. Lets put it there. Reference: Issue #566: [Request] Poster/Thumb preference for rows/screens Edited August 10, 2019 by speechles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigverm23 2 Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 Hi, are you talking about the app home screen? We don't currently have options for that, but it's possible for the future. thanks. Talking about once you are in a media folder like shown on the firestick here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14903 Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 We just don't have this in this app yet. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigverm23 2 Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 Ah man. The firestick app is sooo much cleaner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speechles 1917 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 (edited) Ah man. The firestick app is sooo much cleaner. The difference is the API the devices use. Android has a vastly superior API to write code with. So much off-the-shelf goodies that are open source for the taking. You don't need to build much from the ground up. Android allows off-the-shelf javascript library code to be used which allows "plugging" javascript into your code. It makes it possible to build your own Video Player or import MPV codebase, or etc... Roku has a custom API to write code with. Barely any off-the-shelf goodies that are open source. You must build 99.9% of things from the ground up. There is no javascript library. There are few pre-built components. It is not possible to build your own VIdeo Player or import MPV codebase, or etc... In other words on Roku it is a completely different game and it is difficult(but not impossible) to be as awesome on Roku as it is on Android. It is just harder. I am up to that challenge and Eric is right beside me. Edited August 11, 2019 by speechles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilgamesh_48 942 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Ah man. The firestick app is sooo much cleaner. I strongly disagree with this. I find the Roku app "cleaner" and "more intuitive" and even "more stable." Once they added the ability to show a synopsis while browsing "Next up" (optionally in the Roku beta app) the Roku app jumped ahead of all other apps for general functionality and usability. The Fire, and Android in general, is just kind of clumsy and the interface feels "jerky." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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