After a 1 star Play Store review, I was asked to leave my feedback in the forum. The Android TV UI was revamped recently, and it’s so unusable, I consider switching to Jellyfin
- The fast forward UX is degraded. Previously, I could just tap the “right” button to skip 10 seconds forward, and then hold it to keep skipping forward, whilst the video frame updated, and then let it go to continue playing. Now, I can tap it once for 10 sec skip, then it goes to 2x and gets stuck there, i.e. letting go of the right arrow button doesn’t stop the fast forward, it just keeps going until I press the OK button. That’s not as precise, and my thumb has to move to more buttons which is a hassle. Also, the picture doesn’t update whilst it is fast forwarding. That scrolling feature being bad alone is enough of a bother for me to consider switching.
- The new UI is also buggy. When I click on a video that is partway watched, it starts from the beginning, where it previously continued in the middle. I realised now that is a bug, since when I go back to the home screen, and click the video again, it DOES continue where I left of. So, now I have to tap a video twice if I want to continue watching.
- Lastly, why oh why does everyone have to copy Apple’s UI (poorly) at every occasion. This is an Android TV app, it shouldn’t look like an Apple app nested into the wrong ecosystem. Plus, the previous UI had coherency and it’s own design choices. It wasn’t just echoing the design principles of liquid glass (which itself isn’t very well received for good reason) just for the sake of it. The app now looks really alien.
