jellyfin-android vs fdroidclient

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jellyfin-android		fdroidclient
	Project
58	Mentions	55
1,206	Stars	-
5.8%	Growth	-
9.3	Activity	-
7 days ago	Latest Commit	-
Kotlin	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

jellyfin-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of jellyfin-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.

Is there a guide for remote access for complete idiots like myself?
2 projects | /r/jellyfin | 7 Jun 2023

I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing though, because as far as I recall, many client apps currently do not support the usual authentication protocols. Which authentication are you referring to? If you only use the WebUI client maybe this works.
Android Remote Control
1 project | /r/jellyfin | 29 May 2023
⟳ 4 apps added, 28 updated at f-droid.org
6 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 27 May 2023

Jellyfin - your media in your hands! (version 2.5.2): Mobile client for Jellyfin, the free software media system
mp4 freezing at same spot; can I benefit from Nvidia Quadro P400 2GB GGDR5 PCI-E Video Card Dell F2NVH?
4 projects | /r/jellyfin | 20 May 2023
When will jellyfin-android 2.5.2 will release? Is there a way for me to get latest version on github and not wait for the release on google play store?
2 projects | /r/jellyfin | 20 May 2023
Terrible quality through Jellyfin Web (Firefox)
2 projects | /r/jellyfin | 19 May 2023

Someone else mentioned this about 2.5.0.. they said it seemed fixed in 2.5.1, but you can go back to 2.4.x https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android.... Jellyfin Media Player is a windows/Linux client https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player
Thank you for adding jellyfin to Material You
1 project | /r/jellyfin | 15 May 2023

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/releases for people want the apk early
Jellyfin transcoding a video but its unwatchable
1 project | /r/jellyfin | 15 May 2023

It's a bug in the web player on Android: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/issues/853
[Jellyfin] Sous-titres Jellyfin Ass pour Android TV
1 project | /r/enfrancais | 10 May 2023
Jellyfin Android (Mobile) crashes when using VLC as external player
1 project | /r/jellyfin | 4 May 2023

fdroidclient

Posts with mentions or reviews of fdroidclient. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-20.

F-Droid: Android FOSS app store
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2023

This is the discussion on implementing a popcon-style feature in F-Droid if you want to read through where the project got to: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/396
First fully commercial, paid app requiring a key to function at all in main F-Droid repo! (Or is a free ad for the app?)
1 project | /r/fdroid | 30 Apr 2023

Meanwhile, the Latest tab "highlights good descriptions" (meaning in other words that it "hides" apps not meeting certain metadata criteria, even if they're completely free - as in speech and in beer - apps), which was not free of some irony, and was discussed at length with apparent consensus to change it but then every time it was back to square one. Because "Latest" apparently doesn't mean "Latest" and people don't get the nuances of English. Not kidding. Read the issue.
# of app downloads
2 projects | /r/fdroid | 23 Apr 2023

Basically, not at present, I think. It's happened for some time, and for a longer time in the past, it's been discussed multiple times, but I don't think right now there's any effort in this direction.
⟳ 0 apps added, 1 updated at f-droid.org
1 project | /r/FDroidUpdates | 7 Apr 2023

F-Droid (version 1.16.3): The app store that respects freedom and privacy
Receiving message when attempting to update repository
1 project | /r/fdroid | 3 Apr 2023
All my Open Source App Alternatives
31 projects | /r/fdroid | 29 Mar 2023

Play Store → Aurora Store, Fdroid, Neo Store
is this normal when installing Fdroid?
1 project | /r/fdroid | 13 Mar 2023

Yep, that is the hard part: - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2037 - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/2145
New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2023
f-droid seems to have stopped working on grapheneos
1 project | /r/GrapheneOS | 16 Feb 2023
Android 14 adds new features to make third-party app stores work even better
1 project | /r/Android | 13 Feb 2023

With the speed they're pursuing targetSDK updates? https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/1440

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jellyfin-android and fdroidclient you can also consider the following projects:

findroid - Third-party native Jellyfin Android app

Neo-Store - An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.

finamp - A Jellyfin music client for mobile

droidVNC-NG - VNC server app for Android that does not require root privileges.

Exoplayer - An extensible media player for Android

Aurora - Non-official Library Genesis (Libgen) Android mobile client.

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

client - F-Droid client with Material UI.

jellyfin-androidtv - Android TV Client for Jellyfin

andOTP - [Unmaintained] Open source two-factor authentication for Android

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