I wrote my own streaming app for Android TV. Do you want me to open source it? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by adonis@kbin.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've been using my own streaming app for the past few years now.

I decided to rock my own thing because of the following reasons. Since many of the existing ones are closed source, you never know what data is collected. Kodi is fine, but I prefer nice UIs to browse my favorite content. And lastly, I'm a passionate developer.

The app consists of 3 parts:

the TV app itself
a backend service to fetch data from trakt/tmdb
a backend service for openscrapers (real debrid)
external player of choice (nova, vlc, ...)

To get it up and running, you'd need to run the two backend services on your own server and install an external player like Nova, since it doesn't provide a built-in player.

Would you guys be interested in it so I make my repos publicly available?

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[-] DeJaVu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Always a good idea to open source imo, you never know who will jump in and what potential that will bring to the app and what and how big it will become.

Could be a good idea considering adding usenet support(Easynews), they allready have a search engine on their website and i figure it shouldnt be too complicated to implement. And theres not too many kodi addons that do support easynews(afaik its only fen and umbrella), so that should help with it getting some popularity amongst EN users.

Could you share some screens or short video of the app in action? Would be curious to see that pretty ui you mention.