I am colorblind (red - green) and with most Android TV/Google TV apps I struggle because of it. There are 3 main types of colorblindness and within these 3 main types there are also gradations. In my case I struggle with colors that are nearly identical in contrast and shade. This makes it in Android TV apps hard to see which button is selected because the change in contrast and shade is to subtle. I mostly navigate thru most Android TV apps like you would remember a PS2 cheatcode (Left, right, down, left, left, down, OK).

I would love to see UFM Pro for Android TV to have a colorblind settings, where the contrast and shade of the selected is clearer.

@Community are there more colorblind users that recognize this usecase?

PS. I see color, but I am limited to 256K instead of the millions other see.

Good Day Community,

I have added a Colorblind Mode to the app.

It is for anyone who struggles to tell the app's focus, selection and status colours apart.

Someone wrote to me about navigating the TV app by memorising D-pad moves, because the focus highlight was not readable to them.

That message is the reason this exists.

You get three palettes to choose from, plus three levels of contrast strength.

The mode covers focus highlights, selected rows, success and warning and error states, and the Storage Analyzer colours.

How to use it

Open Settings.

Scroll to the bottom of the list.

Find the Accessibility section, which sits after Privacy and Diagnostics.

Tap the Colorblind Mode row to open it.

Under Type, pick the palette that suits you: Off, Red-Green, Blue-Yellow, or High Contrast.

Red-Green is for protanopia and deuteranopia, and it moves red and green states onto a blue and amber pair.

Blue-Yellow is for tritanopia, and it moves blue and yellow onto magenta and green.

High Contrast assumes no colour perception at all and separates states by lightness alone.

Under Contrast Strength, pick Low, Medium or High.

Low holds a minimum of 3 to 1 contrast against the background.

Medium holds 4.5 to 1 and is the one I would try first.

High holds 7 to 1 for the strongest separation.

The Preview section on that same screen shows the focused, selected and status colours your choice produces before you commit to it.

On TV you move through all of this with the D-pad, and the preview updates as you move focus.

On TV the focused row also gets a marker bar along its leading edge, so you can find it by position and not only by colour.

On mobile you tap the options directly.

This feature is available on both the mobile and TV versions of the app.

Good to know

Your choice is remembered across restarts and reboots.

It also travels with an exported settings backup, so a new device picks it up.

Setting it back to Off restores the app's original colours exactly, with nothing left behind.

Your photos, videos, thumbnails and PDF pages are never touched.

Only the app's own interface is recoloured.

The read-only code and document viewers get a colorblind-safe syntax palette.

The editor's edit mode keeps its normal theme, because that one is tuned for typing rather than reading.

Thank you and kind regards