[mythtv-users] fixing themes on Android Mythfrontend?

[David Engel]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 07:44:09PM -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 5:50 PM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 03:12:14PM -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
> > > My backend and frontends are on MythTV fixes/32. I have patched my
> > favorite
> > > theme, Functionality, to work on V32 and have this included on all my x86
> > > frontends.  However, I don't have a clue as to how to get the same theme
> > > onto my Shield TV and FireTV 4K versions of mythfrontend.
> > >
> > > Anyone know?
> >
> > I beleve you pretty much have two options.  One, you can upload your
> > theme to the public repository so it can be downloaded by
> > mythfrontend.  Two, you can build your own apk with your theme patched
> > into the builtin, themes directory.  I do the latter.
> >
> > David
> > --
> > David Engel
> > david at istwok.net
> 
> 
> I tried recently to build the Android apk but without success. The
> instructions must be dated as I'm always missing some build dependencies.
> It would be great if the owner of the Functionality theme would merge the
> recent pull request into the official theme on github. The changes to the
> theme for them to work in v32 are really minor and would take minimal
> effort to implement.

Yeah, building the dependencies has always been a rather fragile
process.  I know one of them has a syntax error in its cmake file that
needs to be fixed manually.  I should take a stab at fixing that.
ONce the dependencies are built, we tend to not touch them for fear of
them braking.  Out of sight, out of mind.

What's the liense on Functionality?  It's likely one you can fork and
maintain yourself under another name.

David
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David Engel
david at istwok.net