Applying CSS to Android/Android TV app

[MediaIntelNUC 32]

Hi!

Are there any plans to insert some CSS-like ability to the Android and/or Android TV app and not only webb app?

Im under the impression that Android TV apps are not as customable as regular android apps, so perhaps the universal android?

 

Thanx!

Edited 20 hours ago by MediaIntelNUC

[yocker 1360]

3 minutes ago, MediaIntelNUC said:

Hi!

Are there any plans to insert some CSS-like ability to the Android and/or Android TV app and not only webb app?

Im under the impression that Android TV apps are not as customable as regular android apps, so perhaps the universal android?

 

Thanx!

No.
Android apps are pretty much locked down.
I think there exists custom apps out there but i am not sure.

[MediaIntelNUC 32]

10 minutes ago, yocker said:

No.
Android apps are pretty much locked down.
I think there exists custom apps out there but i am not sure.

Gotcha!

I know there are apps out there with native support for for Emby, jellyfin and Plex, and the layout is different from both Emby apps for Android.

With the difference that its a pure videoplayer app but when it comes to my Shield thats all i need.

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[yocker 1360]

14 hours ago, MediaIntelNUC said:

Gotcha!

I know there are apps out there with native support for for Emby, jellyfin and Plex, and the layout is different from both Emby apps for Android.

With the difference that its a pure videoplayer app but when it comes to my Shield thats all i need.

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You can set up Emby as a DLNA server.

[MediaIntelNUC 32]

Ok!

Since I have no idea how to do that i have to try, for learning purposes if nothing else.

Do you have some tips on where to start reading up?

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[visproduction 328]

MI,

I believe that CSS styles on Android app has to pass review before the app is accepted into the store.  So, that means everything has to be styled to their specs and that is probably very arduous.  Trying to do anything very customized can maybe cause the app to not pass review.  I think this is why the CSS style options on the web is wide open and allowed, so users can come up with all sorts of styles, but Android and iOS is very restricted because it is a lot more work to get any styles accepted.

Look here for style code and review policies:

https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/theming/themes
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9859455?hl=en

Be aware that any work you do with Android, takes much longer to test.  In web - html and css, mobile does not like updating changes in code and typically locks a cached copy of the style sheet.  Forced page refresh or incognito browser won't force a new copy of CSS style sheet.   So, it's very hard to see changes you make in the styles for mobile. You may run into a similar problem with Android apps.  That's a guess.  I don't do Android apps.  Also, obviously, any work you do, will only end up changing an Android app that gets accepted to the store, if Emby uses some of the code you create in a release.  I am not sure you can even load a test Android app that is not approved.

 

[MediaIntelNUC 32]

Hi

Yeah, i know that i can use Android Studio to do that, and i have done it by either removing the device needing a Store signature, or adding a signature to the app(s) after decompiling, and recompiling it again for programming purposes but also to modify appereances in the past. I have for example taken a theme already in an app, prefferably white/light or dark/black and used those settings to push my own theme. These are apps with open soure and have fullfilled no other purpose than satisfing mu own desitre to learn new things.

I am fully aware that Google hads a pretty high bar when it comes to certain things, but getting something approved in an app store have never been an option.

I would never distribute an app that i have done this with and its quite the process, so my query was if there would be a way that emby devs implemented this into an option within the official app itself.

 

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[speechles 2060]

Android and Roku do not use CSS. This is why they do not honor the CSS of the web app. They cannot.

https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/layout/declaring-layout

https://developer.roku.com/docs/developer-program/core-concepts/scenegraph-brightscript/brightscript-xml-markup-equivalence.md

Edited 27 minutes ago by speechles

[MediaIntelNUC 32]

No,not the CSS code sheet,thats right, its features must be implemented elsewhere.

I realize now that CSS whas a bad choice of words, should have gone with the classic "Themes"

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