Leaderboard

Don't ask that too loud. There's a large cult, I mean crowd of power users, many from the early days, who would probably love nothing more than have all other clients work the way the ATV app functions. It's still the "go to" app many feel everything else compares to. So I wouldn't be worried about it disappearing any time soon. Obviously newer app releases have a bit different different design and more consistent functionality that is more menu oriented vs having to remember special key codes or patterns that have special meaning. The newer app designs have a more elegant and modern look to them with better thought out navigational designs that equally work for new users to the more experienced existing users (but might have an extra click or so). The newer apps use a converged or dynamic UI that adapts to different size device screens including smartphone, tablet, desktop to TV. Not only does the UI change based on size but also adjusts to different methods of interaction. The new Android app for example works with taps, swipes and gestures to keyboards and mice, blue tooth and TV remotes as well as voice command. It support communication via WIFI, WIFI Direct, Blue Tooth or Ethernet. Not to mention receiving or sending streams to other devices and Chrome Casting. A converged app that works in this manner brings the same feature sets to all members of the OS family which might be hard to do otherwise. It should be able to simplify support, allow parallel testing of different device types leading to better testing before release. Not only will the OS rollout at the same time giving all our users the same set of features so what they do on their tablet, phone or TV will work the same. It will allow the same set of features for all OS clients if possible, so it won't be just your Android Mobile that can download and watch media offline. Little things like this go a long way from a consistency standpoint as well as user expectation.

And another. This app is useless on the Shield - it's very slow and clunky. Nowhere near as refined as the ATV app is. I understand the reasoning to have just 1 Android app, but this has a long way to go to be usable on a daily basis. Sorry, just saying.

Here's one.

When I check in the google playstore, it says I upgraded to 3.2.43 on December 2nd. Was this update already out for some phones?

Emby grows more every day. The success is that Emby Support listens to its customers and improves every day. Thank alot.

Emby android app is best.

Two - well maybe for cult, not so much power user...

Amazing quality-of-life and feature-rich update! Hats off for the Android team