Bring an Emby for Android TV's design to the Emby Universal App

[chuwz 21]

Hello @Luke@ebr I'm using the Emby for Android TV 2.1.51g. 

I found that the design of Emby for Android TV was exactly what I was looking for. 
As shown in the video, when I select Episode 3 and press the down arrow on the remote, the following happens: 
Episode 3 is selected in the “More from” section.

 In other words, on Emby for Android TV, the poster displayed under “More from” is always the current episode.

I know

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the "more from" section is not intended to show information about the current episode. It's there to help you get to the next episode.

But the fact is that Emby for Android TV is designed to display the current episode's poster.

 

Because Emby for Android TV has a lot of issues, such as this bug, I gave up on Emby for Android TV and switched to the Emby Universal App.

However, the design of the Emby Universal App is odd—it’s far inferior to the “always display the current episode’s poster” design of Emby for Android TV.

Here's how Emby Universal App is currently designed: When I enter Episode 3 and press the “Down” button on the remote, the “More from” section moves the cursor to Episode 4 or Episode 2. (as shown in the video).

This design prevented me from seeing the poster for the current episode, so I enabled "Show a poster on the detail screen".

Then I noticed a BUG on my Android TV

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1. I go to the episode 1.

2. Then I press the down arrow on the remote.

At this point, it should select the episode 2, but it selects the episode 3 instead.

In other words, the cursor selection is messed up... I'm reporting this BUG here (I recorded a video; you can take a look.); please fix it as soon as possible.

 

 

 

Therefore, the Emby Universal App currently does not support the feature where “the poster displayed under ‘More from’ is always the current episode,” unless you port this design from Emby for Android TV to the Emby Universal App.

 

By the way, this design by Emby Universal App is quite illogical, because both Plex and third-party Emby clients use a design that “displays the poster for the current series.”

Plex does

Yamby does (this is a video)

Hills does

 

So could you please bring this Emby for Android TV's design to the Emby Universal App? 

Thank you very much! 

 

[ebr 16530]

5 hours ago, chuwz said:

such as this bug,

Hi.  A feature that you would like that doesn't exist is not a "bug" .

Our apps are designed to use the internal player within them.  We provide the ability to use external players for odd situations but do not intend to support every feature in every external app.