2018-03-12, 20:51
...Sadly, only for MrMC: https://github.com/MrMC/mrmc/commits/master (look at feb 2018 commits and around that point...)
They're a Kodi fork, and their code changes are fully allowed to be copied/ported back to Kodi (they say so themselves).
Here's what I'll say about the focus engine: Oh my god. Kodi finally feels like a native AppleTV application. Perfect siri remote control support, with slick, intuitive scrubbing (with AppleTV-like preview of the timeline landing location), native feeling menu navigation, etc. It's so great that I hope some hero wants to backport it to Kodi itself. Because wow... there's no way to go back to old-shool navigation after trying this method.
Best of all: The code to achieve it seems to have been pretty small. I don't understand much of the "focus engine" commits I looked at but they looked pretty tiny! I think they create an invisible AppleTV GUI on top of the app window, with virtual buttons where every Kodi navigation element sits. That way the siri remote knows how to natively navigate the maze of Kodi's GUI!
There's a lite (free) version of MrMC for those who just want to try the new v3.5 or higher to see what I am talking about regarding the amazing remote control feeling with the new Focus Engine code... and I pray that some hero wants to bring it back to the big, full Kodi!
Take care everyone!
They're a Kodi fork, and their code changes are fully allowed to be copied/ported back to Kodi (they say so themselves).
Here's what I'll say about the focus engine: Oh my god. Kodi finally feels like a native AppleTV application. Perfect siri remote control support, with slick, intuitive scrubbing (with AppleTV-like preview of the timeline landing location), native feeling menu navigation, etc. It's so great that I hope some hero wants to backport it to Kodi itself. Because wow... there's no way to go back to old-shool navigation after trying this method.
Best of all: The code to achieve it seems to have been pretty small. I don't understand much of the "focus engine" commits I looked at but they looked pretty tiny! I think they create an invisible AppleTV GUI on top of the app window, with virtual buttons where every Kodi navigation element sits. That way the siri remote knows how to natively navigate the maze of Kodi's GUI!
There's a lite (free) version of MrMC for those who just want to try the new v3.5 or higher to see what I am talking about regarding the amazing remote control feeling with the new Focus Engine code... and I pray that some hero wants to bring it back to the big, full Kodi!
Take care everyone!