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jarnedemeulemeester / findroid

Third-party native Jellyfin Android app
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Support for older SDKs (like v24) for older TVs? #866

Closed thcrt closed 4 days ago

thcrt commented 1 week ago

I have an Android TV that's a little bit older but still works perfectly well. I'd love to install Findroid on it, especially given that the official Jellyfin app doesn't work at all on it. This would require support for older SDK versions, namely 24 in my case. Since a lot of TVs only have limited software updates, support for older SDKs would greatly improve TV support.

I'm not experienced with development for Android/Android TV, so this might be much more work than it seems. Obviously, I'd understand if that were the case.

Cheers!

jarnedemeulemeester commented 4 days ago

At the moment there are no plans to lower the min SDK. I do understand that most TVs run older software and rarely get updates.

The TV version will be initially released with the current min SDK of 28. Once it is stable I may look into lowering the min SDK.

thcrt commented 4 days ago

That makes sense, I totally understand.

Thanks for your work on Findroid :)