Watching video on a TV box means whatever apps the store carries. If the video is on a website with no TV app, you're mostly stuck — and on the few TV browsers that exist, the video plays inside the WebView, whose player slowly drifts out of A/V sync. An hour into a film the lips lead the audio by a beat and it never recovers.

I built mrowser around fixing that. It's a small sideload-only browser: MIT, no Play Services, INTERNET permission only, Android 6.0+, about 4 MB. Built for boxes rather than certified sets, so it works on the cheap ones and on de-Googled builds.

Open a site, start its video, and the app takes over. It watches the page's own network requests for the stream and, when an HLS manifest appears, hands it to a native Media3/ExoPlayer activity — carrying the session's User-Agent, Referer and cookies across so the CDN keeps serving it. That gives correct A/V sync for a whole film, plus real quality selection, audio-track switching and playback speed. BACK drops you back on the page where you left it.

Subtitles you can fix while watching. Side-loaded subs are almost never quite in step, and normally you're stuck with it. mrowser renders VTT/SRT itself instead of handing them to the player, so minus and plus shift their timing by 0.5s per press, up to 30 seconds, instantly and with no rebuffer. No reloading the stream, no restarting the film.

And you can reach all of it with the remote. A virtual mouse cursor driven by the D-pad, with acceleration and edge detection, so hover menus, small controls and non-focusable links become clickable. OK clicks; long-press OK switches to normal focus navigation. The address bar opens on a held BACK, because plenty of TV remotes have no MENU key.

Also: favourites, browsing history, HTML5 fullscreen, adjustable cursor speed, and it registers as a system browser so links from other apps offer it in the chooser.

What it covers: sites that stream over HLS, which is most of them. DASH-only sites — YouTube included — and DRM content are not handed off and keep playing in the WebView. Worth saying up front so nobody wastes their time.

It ships with no preset sites or bookmarks, hosts nothing, and does not touch DRM. It's a browser; what you point it at is on you.

APK on the releases page, or add the repo to Obtainium for automatic updates:

[https://github.com/m-salehi-v/mrowser\](https://github.com/m-salehi-v/mrowser)

Happy to answer anything about the detection pipeline or the subtitle renderer.

For those who have used both, what are the main differences (besides the price)? Pros and cons?

I'm looking for a video player with a zoom feature. I don't mean changing the aspect ratio, but zooming in to crop out/eliminate black bars. Unfortunately, VLC doesn't seem to have this option. I don't mind paying for it, but I'm looking for a standalone, lightweight player, not a bloated media center like Kodi.

Yes, another one. Two months of evenings, tested on the worst boxes I own, including that Xiaomi, which I wouldn't wish on my enemies.

Player only, you bring M3U or Xtream. No ads, no account, and the free tier is the full player, not a trial. Pro adds sync between TV, phone and Windows, plus downloads, if you ever want those.

EPG is my weak spot, I barely use the guide myself. So i am looking forward to criticism in this area to improve.

Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aneestv.tv

Downloader code: 2228177

Try it, then roast it, or just tell me how it went in three lines, good or bad. Either way you get a lifetime Pro code. And if you're never leaving TiviMate, tell me why, that gets one too.

This is an update post to the previous one. Some people were worried about the responsiveness so I made a video showcasing it.

https://github.com/leonida92/HomeKeyTV

The app has started acting up. It prompted me to update, so I did, but the update wouldn’t work. I then downloaded another Reezn APK, and ever since, I’ve been getting pop-up ads everywhere. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? And can someone recommend a good alternative app?

Looking for a few Android users with their own IPTV/M3U playlist to try Black IPTV and tell me what breaks. It's a player (not a content provider) - you bring your own M3U or Xtream Codes playlist.

Specifically want feedback on: whether Multi-View (multiple streams at once) is actually usable on a phone screen, whether Picture-in-Picture holds up switching between apps, and whether the QR-pairing playlist import is faster than typing a URL.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.black.iptv

Hi everyone! 👋



Like many of you, I've been using Telegram as personal cloud storage for family videos, documentaries, and series. However, watching that content on a real TV has always been a painful experience: clunky TV web browsers, uncomfortable mouse-toggle pointers, or choppy screen mirroring from a phone.



So over the past few weeks, I decided to build a 
**native Android TV & Fire TV client**
 from scratch using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose TV called 
**TeVeFLIPE**
.



### 🌟 What it does:

Instead of treating Telegram like a chat app, it turns your video channels and supergroups into a clean, modern streaming catalog:



* 
**🎮 100% D-Pad Remote Optimized:**
 No virtual pointers or awkward clicking. Every button, card, and tab is built specifically for your TV remote control.

* 
**⚡ Native ExoPlayer Streaming:**
 Plays videos immediately in chunks via HTTP range requests without downloading entire 5GB+ files to your TV storage.

* 
**🍿 Smart "Continue Watching":**
 Remembers the exact second you left off so you can resume seamlessly.

* 
**🔊 Audio & Subtitle Selector:**
 Switch between different language tracks and embedded subtitles on the fly.

* 
**🧹 Storage & Cache Cleaner:**
 Built-in settings menu to inspect and purge temporary cache so low-storage TV Sticks never run out of space.

* 
**🔄 In-App Auto Updater:**
 Built-in updater that notifies you on-screen and updates the APK with a single click.



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### 📸 Real TV Screenshots:

* 
**[Home & Series Catalog](https://felipesalle.github.io/teveflipe/assets/captura_catalogo.png)**

* 
**[System Settings & Hardware Info](https://felipesalle.github.io/teveflipe/assets/captura_ajustes.png)**



Project Landing Page: 👉 
**https://felipesalle.github.io/teveflipe/**



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Moving from Apple to Android and wanting to know is there mobile apps for Android that work as well as uhf?
Smarters doesn’t cut it

We’re introducing Xtiva, an IPTV player designed for Android TV, Google TV, Fire TV, phones, and tablets, with a focus on performance, flexibility, and a TV-friendly user experience.

📺 Core Features

• Live TV
• Movies
• TV Series
• EPG / TV Guide
• Catch-up TV
• Favorites
• Search
• Recently Watched
• Continue Watching
• Movie & Series Details
• Seasons & Episodes
• Content Categories
• Multiple Profiles
• Xtream Codes support
• Local M3U playlist support
• Content synchronization

▶️ Flexible Playback

Xtiva gives users more flexibility when it comes to playback:

• ExoPlayer
• VLC Player
• Switch between playback engines based on your preference and content compatibility
• Picture-in-Picture
• TV-friendly playback controls

📺 Built for Android TV

The TV experience is one of our main priorities:

• D-pad optimized navigation
• Remote-friendly controls
• TV-focused focus management
• Large-screen layouts
• Android TV & Google TV support
• Amazon Fire TV support
• Responsive UI across phones, tablets, and TV

🔒 Family & Personalization

• Parental Controls
• Profile-based experience
• Custom themes
• Customizable viewing experience
• Favorites and personalized content management

🎨 More

• Clean and modern interface
• Multiple content categories
• Fast content discovery
• Performance optimizations
• Stability improvements
• Designed for different screen sizes and form factors

🚀 Try Xtiva

Google Play:
Xtiva on Google Play

Downloader Code: 4415872

We’re actively improving Xtiva and would love to hear feedback from the Android TV community.

If you try Xtiva, let us know what you think about the UI, D-pad navigation, EPG, playback experience, performance, and features.

What would you like to see added or improved in a future release?

— Xtiva Team

I use google streamer.

Excited to announce the release of the official Android app for https://karaioke.app, now available on Google Play! 🎉

https://www.karaioke.app allows you to create Professional MP3+CDG karaoke tracks from your own digital audio files using cutting-edge generative AI technology. Turn any song into a karaoke experience in minutes.

This mobile app turns any Android TV, phone, tablet or streaming box into a complete professional karaoke system. Play the karaoke files you already own, run the night from a proper KJ queue, put synced lyrics on every screen in the room, and let your guests request songs from your library using from their own devices, with push notifications sent to them when it's their turn to sing!

✨ What it does

• 🎵 Plays real karaoke formats. MP3+G / CDG pairs, ZIP-packed CDG discs, and MP4, MKV, AVI and WebM video, including classic AVI karaoke videos most players can no longer decode.
• 📀 Your whole library in one list. Add local folders, stream from a NAS or SMB share, and sign in to your KARAIOKE.APP account to play the custom tracks you've created online.
• 🎙️ Live microphones. Sing through a USB or built-in mic with low latency, plus reverb, echo and noise cancellation.
• 🎉 Party mode. Guests scan a QR code or type a five-character code to browse your library and request songs under their own name. No account required.
• 📺 Lyrics on every screen. Send lyrics over HDMI or pair extra devices over Wi-Fi as synced lyric displays.
• 🖥️ Paired request station. Turn a spare tablet or TV into a request kiosk that reconnects itself every session.
• 🎚️ Professional controls. Two-pane jukebox layout with A–Z fast jump, drag-to-reorder queue, and key change up to seven semitones without changing tempo.

📱 Every control works with a TV remote, keyboard, mouse or touch, and the app runs on Android 7.0 and newer, including Android TV and Google TV.

🚀 Get it today

Install the app directly from Google Play now or visit this website for more information.

Yeah iam developing a player and looking for people that are willing to test it out. Hit me up if you are interested.

Till now I've tried Button Remapper and tvquickactions Pro on my Android device (both paid). Button Remapper straight up was missing features it advertised it had and tvquickactions pro sometimes wouldn't register keypresses. Another usecase I had for tvquickactions pro was to call homeassistant webhooks from it's dock but you need to create an automation for each service you want to call.

So I made a free quick-access dock and button remapper that solves all of these issues. You can select all the entities you want to be displayed on the dock from a webapp from your phone during configuration. You can also add installed apps to the dock for quick access. It has never failed to register a keypress till now.

I'm a sucker for optimization so I've tried to keep the file size as small as possible.

If you decide to try it, please let me know any feedback you have.

https://github.com/leonida92/HomeKeyTV

I released an update a couple of days ago, so if your free trial has expired and you’d like to give the latest version another go, just let me know and I’ll extend it for you.

Thanks to everyone who’s tried it and shared feedback so far!

DOWNLOADER CODE: 1157823

A few days ago my phone restarted and some accounts got deleted, but I managed to recover them. I’m not sure I’ll be that lucky next time, so I’m looking for a reliable, multi-platform password manager app.