Any interest in a SwiftUI tvOS UI modernization?

[evertonstz]

I've been messing around with replacing the UIKit tvOS UI in Moonlight with SwiftUI. I didn't touch the streaming pipeline, just the UI layer. This started as something for my own Apple TV because I wanted a cleaner look and the current UI feels out of place when compared to the rest of the system, and it kind of snowballed from there.

What works right now (tvOS 26, Apple TV 4K simulator):

• Finding hosts via the network, pairing them, and having pairing actually survive across launches
• Browsing apps in a horizontal scrolling shelf
• Streaming — video, audio, controller input all work
• Settings hooked up to the tvOS Settings app
• The Siri Remote trackpad acting as a mouse

Under the hood it's a separate Xcode target that links the same static libs and ObjC sources. Nothing in the shared Limelight code changed.

What I haven't done, and why I'm asking before going further:

• Right now it's tvOS 26 only. Some of the newer SwiftUI stuff could probably work on older tvOS with availability checks, but I haven't tried. This was built for what I run at home.
• If this were to go anywhere, the idea would be to replace the tvOS UIKit UI entirely, and maybe eventually the iOS one too. But that's a much bigger conversation and I'm not going to pretend I have a roadmap for it.
• I'm not a SwiftUI dev. I'm a hobbyist who likes tinkering. There are definitely things here that a real iO developer would do differently, and I'd rather get that feedback now than after spending more weekends polishing something that doesn't fit the project's direction.

Would upstream be open to something like this, or are there architectural reasons it wouldn't make sense?

[Alex293]

I recently discovered the project and thought about doing something close to what you are suggesting. You would be open to share your experiment / fork ?

[evertonstz]

@Alex293 it would be awesome to have help from an actual swift engineer, thx! I have progressed to a UI that I think fits pretty well with what apple is doing with their apps currently, here is some screenshots:

Server screen shows the servers and the + buttom to manually add new servers, clicking one of the servers shows the apps just for that specific server This screen just shows all apps for all servers, like an aggregate and I am planing on making this the default screen for when opening the app Settings for now is just a button that takes us to the apple settings based system we have currently, my plan is to offload all settings to this screen and kill the applse settings based system.

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As you can see, I am focusing on liquid glass components for now until I nail the entire UI, after that if you are interested, we could start to create components for previous tvOS versions until we reach support parity with the current UIKit implementation. I will see if I can clean my branch and upload it so you can take a look in the next few days.

[evertonstz]

@Alex293 here https://github.com/evertonstz/moonlight-tvos

[adolgiy]

I would like to see updates for iOS user interface too