sndstrm

A maintained fork of the Jellyfin Android TV client with enhanced UI/UX and additional features.

This is an unofficial, community-maintained fork. It is not affiliated with the Jellyfin project. The official client is at jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv.

Lineage

sndstrm continues the work of DUNE (by Sam42a), itself a fork of the official Jellyfin Android TV client. Full history is documented in FORK.md.

Features

Visual & Interface

• Redesigned home screen with improved content hierarchy
• OLED-optimized dark mode and multiple theme options
• Dynamic color extraction from backdrop images
• DreamView screensaver with smooth transitions
• Enhanced login screen with default avatars and visual feedback

Home Screen

• Customizable home sections and genre rows
• "Because You Watched" suggested content row
• Combined continue watching / next up row
• Vertical alphabet sidebar for grid browsing
• Launcher channel integration

Playback

• Episode selector in playback overlay
• Hardware acceleration toggle
• Audio downmix auto-fallback
• Chapter support in overlay
• Configurable skip duration

Subtitles

• Subtitle download functionality
• TX3G/MOV_TEXT subtitle support
• Default subtitle language preference
• Subtitle preview

Settings & Customization

• Configurable image disk cache size
• In-app language selector
• Genre manager with sorting preferences
• Preferences UI migrated to Jetpack Compose

Building from Source

Requirements

• Android Studio (latest stable)
• JDK 21
• Android SDK with API level matching compileSdk in gradle/libs.versions.toml

Build Instructions

git clone https://github.com/brianredbeard/sndstrm.git
cd sndstrm
./gradlew assembleStandardDebug

For the enhanced variant (separate package ID, can be installed alongside official Jellyfin):

./gradlew buildEnhanced

Install on Device

# Debug build
adb install app/build/outputs/apk/standard/debug/sndstrm-androidtv-*.apk

# Enhanced build
adb install app/build/outputs/apk/enhanced/release/sndstrm-androidtv-0.1.1.apk

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines. By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under GPL-2.0.

Acknowledgments

• Jellyfin — the upstream project and all its contributors (1,044 authors across 9,000+ commits)
• Sam42a — creator of DUNE, the intermediate fork
• OLED theme — basis for the OLED-optimized dark mode

License

Licensed under GPL-2.0. See NOTICE for full copyright attribution and FORK.md for fork history.