Devlog #5 THE BIG REHALL :

this might’ve been the largest update since the beginning of the project, simply put I have done a FULL UI redesign along side completing the streaming functionality along side other cool features , also the project has matured as a real project with commits to github and tests instead of just remembering what i have changed, unfortunately i can’t upload videos directly because of network issues so i have to upload to youtube
So the main changes are :

• A heavily apple tv / apple music inspired design , I took a bunch of ss from my phone and tried to copy them as close as possible

• Added a watchlist and continue watching with progress parse , so you can get back from where you left off
  A side note here FOR SOME REASON when i tried to force it to start the video from the saved last time , the player got stuck on that specific timestamp BUT when i removed the code and returned it just to play the video from the start IT SOMEHOW WORKED , the player API FOR SOMEREASON hates when you try to force it to play from a specific time stamp , and have it’s down continue function IDK man :/

• Did some Bug fixes that i didn’t notice before , it’s quite hard to find bugs since I am the only play tester and the app is not really complete so I can’t use it for a daily user case yet

• Performance improvements since I was working before with an android emulator so i thought performance issues were with the emulator but got to try it on bare metal now and THIS APP STILL MANAGES TO FREEZE MY S22 so i can only think what it will do to lesser phones

There is just so much added I cannot talk about all of it the video should be more informative

To do :
The next thing is most def going to be downloads, but i am quite sure it’s the thing that’s going to take the most amount of time cuz I am going to have to somehow curl or fetch them since there is no api or somehow implement torrenting , but that’s going to be my last resort , I already have a good website in mind that acts more like a directory and it have everything in it , exactly like torrenting , but since it’s a WEBSITE , i am gonna have to try find a way to get only the stuff i am going to need
I think i am going to work on the UI first
Yes ik i am procrastinating but it’s HARD yk :)
also here is a dancing lain since i need to upload photos

Devlog #4:
It seems that i was able to upload vids after all :D oopppssieee , Anywayssss the main Changes in this devlog where

• Adding a search screen, Ik it’s UI looks awefull rn i just wanted to check that everything is working rn
• created a github repo (ik i am a real developer now)
  The UI of the whole app looks a bit bad , I started looking on the UI of the popular streaming apps and apple tv’s rllyyy looks good but it’s not that different tho soo i might borrow sm ideas from them :)
  I am leaving the downloads page last thing cuz it’s gonna have it’s own API (it’s not rlly an API but ill explain when i get to it ;)
  update; Umm it seems that the vid was too large to upload sooo here it is link
  enjoy this photo from a random folder for now :)

Devlog #3:
The fact that i can only upload one photo is really bugging me , ik that i am meant to devlog each 30m but tbh most of the time i spend setting up the services and models for the API so the full UI additions will still happen in a single devlog but now there are 3 filler ones of repetitive backed work
So added a detailed screen for movies and tv shows and yes i am separating them because they are separated in the code because simple TMDB doesn’t have a unified ID var but the movies have their own set of IDs so do TV shows and these IDs can overlap so to save on headache i just copied the page changed the backend to correspond to tv shows and even added the Seasons var to the text
The page when loaded shows the cover art of the movie for a hardcoded 3 second (might be 6 in the code i am lazy to change it back now) and then does a fade in transition for the trailer which is taken from youtube with the youtube explode which allows me to show the vid without any overalys
then comes movie title , release year , rating, runtime, and in the right the providers to it , there is an issue where a lot of the time especially is it’s a single or 2 providers it shows duplicates it’s because of the API i can fix it but it’s low priority now
then under it shows the genres
play add button which are placeholders now
a description
the cast with photos their real names and roles
and finally but it’s not showing a related section that is stolen code from the home screen sidebars with correct api backend
next would be probably getting to either search or fixing all the issues at one , once for all so they never bother me again
prob gnna go for the search

Devlog #2:
Sooo Home screen front end mostly done, it fetches data from TMDB but i have my own api key inserted i should add a way for users to give their own api keys
So all buttons and icons are there just for show and don’t do anything yet
The home screen consists of 3 main parts:
-The header at the top with logo and 2 buttons
-The main Box which have all relevant stuff like tv shows and movies ext
-The Lists which are very modular so i can add or change them very easily later on now i have Trending Movies and Tv shows along side most popular movies from each genre
The UI might not be the greatest but it works for now at least

Devlog #1:
Since I got the proof of concept working now it’s time for a real UI , So i started working on a navbar , the app is gonna be simple with a home screen , search and downloads , I might add settings later if I found a good reason , but for now it’s staying simple :D
Next thing the home screen , I found some projects with TMDB integration so I know it’s possible so no need for no proof of concept

Devlog #0:
The start
Soooo it seems that there is no good FREE streaming app for IOS/Android (especially IOS) and the ones that so either lack extremely important features or have complicated Setup, So the idea of Libera is to fix all of that and no I am not making big claims out of nothing
So the implementation is already decided
I am going to use TMDB api for movies/tv shows indexing since they have a free api , Vidking Player for https streaming which convininently integrates with TMDB and I think i am gonna try to find a way to curl a cool website i found with a collection to all tv shows
What happened so far
I got the Streaming part working fine , the api is nothing more than a customized fancy iframe that you add to websites , I just added a webviewer in the app with the ability to fullscreen , but it seems that there was an issue at first sine sometimes it would just send me to google or give me a Webpage not available , it seems that these where ads mostly which i fixed by adding a check if the website adress changed to something different and blocker the intent:// protocol which seems to only be used for ads
These 2 quick fixes resulted in the player working great without ads too :D and now the player works great