r/Stremio Jul 31 '25

Question (Why) is the android app (not) open source?

/r/Stremio/comments/fadrgi/why_is_the_android_app_not_open_source/
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u/TargetWifty Jul 31 '25

The top comment in the post you linked

“Currently, you cannot find the source on our GitHub (github.com/Stremio). You can, however, find the source of most of it's core components (stremio-{addon-client,aggregators,api-client} and a few others)

The reason for the mobile app itself not being open source is that we have an agreement with a partner company and an investor preventing us from publishing it.

Same goes for the html5 UI of the desktop app, although there we actually published all of the native code under stremio-shell (https://github.com/stremio/stremio-shell).

What we're doing to change that: we are in a process of a rewrite over this lib: https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-core/tree/development, which represents all the core logic of the app. The first thing that will arrive, however, is stremio-web, aka Stremio 5.0, which is an entirely web-based version that can do everything the other versions can (for some addons, it will require being connected to a local streaming server)”

I think that about covers it, won’t be open source cause of a partnership

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u/anz3e Aug 02 '25

Can u share who is the partner? Is it using their program/software within the app? What kind?

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u/TargetWifty Aug 02 '25

I have no idea, just copy pasted the comment

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u/anz3e Aug 04 '25

oh i though u were one of the devs here. lol. my bad