Making navigation easy on android tv

[Naonga]

Describe your suggested feature

If by any chance you could make navigation easy to use with a remote and if possible you also add in an android tv icon, it doesn't show in Chromecast with Google tv.

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[EfeDevirgen]

AFAIK no one is planning on making a TV UI but you can always do it yourself:)

[elvistony]

I would like to help out, I'm not an expert in android development (just barely made a tiny app few years ago) but if anyone would like to work on it together feel free to drop by.

Seeing this has been raised multiple times here (#114, #162, #229, #854, #751, #1347 ,#1006), we could make this work. If we make it stable enough, we could have a pull request made and @jmir1 could review and merge it in no time!

I believe the task should be relatively straightforward:

• Set Focus Handling properties for the UI Elements Android Docs This should help the remotes move around the selection without integrating a mouse.
• Add an appearance theme to the library to show selected items in a more brighter colour

[elvistony]

I've started to work on the app on my fork, I've tried adding NextFocus Properties (firstly) to the player_controls.xml but the DPAD interactions doesn't navigate correctly even after disabling the KeyDown events in the Gestures function.

Anybody knows what's going wrong?

Idea references:

• Focus Events - Android Docs
• Making apps TV friendly - Amazon Dev

[Dark25]

I've started to work on the app on my fork, I've tried adding NextFocus Properties (firstly) to the player_controls.xml but the DPAD interactions doesn't navigate correctly even after disabling the KeyDown events in the Gestures function.

Anybody knows what's going wrong?

Idea references:

• Focus Events - Android Docs
• Making apps TV friendly - Amazon Dev

What happens is that aniyomi is divided by modules, you must specify where it should jump when it reaches (x) or (y)

[elvistony]

True! But since it's not a mouse pointer based solution, it just tells where the next selection box needs to go when the DPAD arrow keys are pressed.

I tried this out, and some stuff seem to work, but I need an expert 😂 to help me out. I'm editing the xml file of the layout and adding the NextFocusRight ... to the attributes, but for some reason the focus finding algorithm ignores these properties.

[Dark25]

True! But since it's not a mouse pointer based solution, it just tells where the next selection box needs to go when the DPAD arrow keys are pressed.

I tried this out, and some stuff seem to work, but I need an expert 😂 to help me out. I'm editing the xml file of the layout and adding the NextFocusRight ... to the attributes, but for some reason the focus finding algorithm ignores these properties.

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[sBaydin]

Hello, I don't know if this is the right place, but I would like to raise a small issue.
Yes, control with the remote control is a bit of a problem. Mouse control is better. But there is a problem in scrolling down by dragging the lists while controlling with the mouse. I would like to make a notification about this issue. Maybe this is not the place for this, I apologize in advance.

[deenodadon]

aniyomi works on android tv kinda with the cloudstream extension but i don't think its actively maintained a lot of aniyomi extensions don't work on it rn but i believe its because webview is not implemented in this extension but im no expert maybe this could help https://github.com/CranberrySoup/AniyomiCompatExtension

[abdallahmehiz]

Duplicate of #162