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jellyfin / Swiftfin

Swiftfin

Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS

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17Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
4.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS

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I love Jellyfin, but its inability to Chromecast from iOS is a dealbreaker. I think they’re working on a whole new iOS app though that has a working chromecast button -…

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Observed mentions: 2021-06-10 18:24:35 UTC to 2026-07-24 04:27:26 UTC.

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I'm not even sure I'd only see the fault with the vendors in this case, as I could very easily imagine that feature to be buggy (From Apples side) or not supporting some use cases that they might want, as no large streaming service seems to do it. It's a bit similar to them not supporting Apple TV's "Continue Watching" feature as they don't want to hand over all their watch data to Apple. In any case, once you have a good setup the pirating UX is very hard to beat (I'm looking forward to the day that Jellyfin on tvOS has feature parity with Plex, not a big fan of Infuse personally. That's the issue to follow for that: https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/discussions/1294).
In New iPad Air, powered by M4
One suggestion I’ll make to the Jellyfin team is to post this call at the point where users are requesting things too. In the example in the blogpost (Chromecast support), in the issue I was asking a bit about how I could help implement the feature (https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/issues/271#issuecomment...). Even if there’s nothing I could have productively done to contribute to that feature, I would absolutely have gone to those getting started features. So, I’d encourage the team to have a pretty quick hand in issues when people are asking to help to link to this blog post and getting started resources. Finally, none of this is in anyway a criticism of how any interaction was handled. I super appreciate everyone that works on Jellyfin, and I know onboarding developers can often feel like/be more work than not. Just a suggestion f
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or a good spot to add some CTA links that I think would convert reasonably well
In A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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