DR-247. The desktop suite cannot reach ExoPlayer: it needs an Android Context and a Looper, so it exists only inside an app process. These are the same behaviours, asserted against the engine itself. Writing them forced the same gap open that mpv had. JellyTauPlayer.load(url, mediaId) had no way to express a start position, so every caller loaded and then seeked — the test could not even be written against the old signature, which is a stronger statement than a failing assertion. The position now goes to ExoPlayer with the media item via setMediaItem(item, startPositionMs), and the two-argument form delegates to it, so nothing else had to change. Running one suite against both engines settled something guesswork could not: seekWhileOpeningIsHonoured passes on ExoPlayer with no fix ExoPlayer already queues a seek issued before prepare() completes. So the lost-seek half of DR-241 was mpv-specific, and only the missing vocabulary for a start position was shared. That is the difference between "both engines have this bug" and knowing which one does. All seven cases pass on device (ROD2-W09, arm64). The fixture is a silent WAV synthesised in the cache directory at setup rather than committed or pushed: no binary in the repo, no adb step, and an exact duration, which the seek assertions depend on. Also adds the instrumentation runner to defaultConfig and teaches sync-android-sources.sh to mirror src/androidTest, the way it already mirrors src/test — so the canonical tree stays the only place tests are edited. Run: ./gradlew :app:connectedUniversalDebugAndroidTest -x :app:rustBuildUniversalDebug

JellyTau
A cross-platform Jellyfin client built with Tauri, SvelteKit, and TypeScript.
Business logic lives in a Rust backend; a UI-rich Svelte frontend handles presentation and talks to it over Tauri's IPC. Targets Linux (libmpv) and Android (ExoPlayer).
Getting Started
This project uses bun as its package manager.
# Activate the Rust environment (fish shell)
source "$HOME/.cargo/env.fish"
# Install dependencies
bun install
# Run in development
bun run tauri dev
# Type-check the frontend
bun run check
# Build for Linux
bun run tauri build
# Build for Android
bun run tauri android build
For the full set of build, test, and Android helper scripts, see scripts/README.md.
Documentation
| Topic | Location |
|---|---|
| Architecture overview & subsystem docs | docs/architecture/ |
| Requirements, traceability & technical debt | docs/requirements.md |
| Build & release process | docs/build/build-release.md |
| Docker builds | docs/build/docker.md |
| Traceability tooling & CI | docs/traceability.md, docs/traceability-ci.md |
| Release checklist | docs/release-checklist.md |
| UX flows | docs/ux-flows.md |
| CI operations (builder image, secrets, runner) | docs/build/ci-operations.md |
Contributing
CONTRIBUTING.md covers the setup, the gates a change has to pass, and the two rules that catch people out (bug fixes start with a failing test; Jellyfin's taxonomy stays in Rust). Please also read the Code of Conduct.
Found a security problem? Do not open an issue — see SECURITY.md.
Verifying a download
Every release publishes SHA256SUMS covering all of its artifacts, plus an SBOM
of what went into the build:
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
Desktop builds update themselves from Settings → Updates, verifying each payload against JellyTau's signing key before installing. Android installs are handled by the system installer, so the app links to the releases page instead.
Recommended IDE Setup
VS Code + Svelte + Tauri + rust-analyzer.
License
MIT