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JRiver on Android -- Development Discussion, Questions, & Answers
styxx10:
If you have an Android Phone, or tablet, with JRemote connected to your network.... what benefit or difference or useability will be gained by JRiver for Android ? It seems to be a bit like reinventing the wheel.
I saw a comment that JRemote is the past, which I think might be unsettling for many given that JRemote is for many users the most useful add on to their using JRiver.
JimH:
It's the JRiver engine ported to Android, so anything JRiver Media Center can do will be potentially available on Android. Playback of any media file, for example. Serving files through DLNA or with Library Server. Playing files as a Renderer.
Most people think of Android as an OS for a phone, but Android is moving to television and laptops. It's a major OS and JRiver is starting to support it.
slerch666:
Issue 1:
JRiver uses the default web browser, not Chrome, for rendering the web page. I say this knowing that 99.97% of all Android users are likely just using what Google gives them. I am not normal and actually use Firefox, Chrome and Edge at times and switch often. Edge renders the page but has oddness. Firefox seems OK for now. And yes, I realize that every browser in the Play Store has to use Google's rendering engine. That doesn't change the fact that, for some things like this, there are odd things that don't look right in those browsers.
Your fix will likely be "just use Chrome." My response will be, who are you to tell me how to use my phone? I don't tell you to use Internet Explorer on your Windows 10 PC, don't tell me what browser to use on my phone please. ;)
My current workaround is to just copy the URL and open the browser I want to use. I do not know if there is a way per app to require a specific app be spawned, in this case, Chrome, when you try to open JRiver. If there is, I would say might be a good idea to configure that.
Issue 2:
I have seen it asked several times but not answered. Will JRiver use the default audio path on Android devices or can it use the advanced audio options afforded to devices like LG G6? Or if I plug in a USB-C DAC, can it use that? My understanding is that app have to be specifically coded to allow this capability and not all apps offer it. If JRiver can do today or will be done in the future to offer this, then I would say it could be close to the 1:1 player we have on Windows (eventually). If it doesn't or won't, then I would say the name should be changed as the pedigree will be lost with this new product. My opinion, of course.
Sorry if it sounds like I am bitching. I am not. I can work around the issue I experienced but not sure I should have to.
Awesome Donkey:
--- Quote from: slerch666 on December 04, 2018, 01:32:39 pm ---And yes, I realize that every browser in the Play Store has to use Google's rendering engine.
--- End quote ---
No, that's Apple and iOS. Android browsers can use their own rendering engine (Gecko/Quantium for Firefox, EdgeHTML for Edge... until they switch to Chromium/Blink, etc.)
On iOS all web browsers have to use Safari's rendering engine, WebKit, instead of their own they use on other platforms.
slerch666:
--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on December 04, 2018, 02:20:18 pm ---No, that's Apple and iOS. Android browsers can use their own rendering engine (Gecko/Quantium for Firefox, EdgeHTML for Edge... until they switch to Chromium/Blink, etc.)
On iOS all web browsers have to use Safari's rendering engine, WebKit, instead of their own they use on other platforms.
--- End quote ---
Ah. I was thinking Google had a similar requirement.
Though for the record, Edge on Android already uses Blink. The announcement was blah blah blah, browser is like an OS in and of itself, blah blah blah, we'll use what we know works on Android, blah blah blah.
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/10/05/microsoft-edge-ios-android-developer/#ppPAY3EWG06siI1S.97
And now it is irrelevant as they move to Blink for Windows 10 Edge.
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