[Fire TV Themes and Apps] sphinx02:
Hey [MENTION=5728225]Kramar111[/MENTION] first of all, thank you and [MENTION=4971768]sem_top7[/MENTION] for your great work regarding the russian and ukranian translations. It makes the App an even better tool. But yes indeed it is hard to coordinate releases if I have to notify and wait for all tranlators before releasing a new version. I already tried this in the past which resulted in a delay of over a week only due to the whole coordination of contributors. I therefore decided to go on like I did it the last few releases, which means that I release the "feature-version" as soon as I have finished my work. The translators have now the time to translate and the community has the time to find problems with the new features. After a short time, when all translations have been arrived, I will release another version containing the translations and potential bug fixes.. The alternative would be to have two release channels (like a beta-channel and a stable-channel) but I guess the App is too small for something like this..

I really hope you understand my motivation for doing it like I do it at the moment. Hope you keep up the good work!!

If you are happy with Kodi, I suggest to stay on Kodi (like I do at the moment). If you have any problem with your current Kodi installation or in future you want to use features which are only given in SPMC, you can install SPMC in parallel to Kodi and check if it satisfies you needs ;)

There are two ways how the App can detect home button presses. You can switch the home button detection mode in the the App Settings. The both methods (with or without ADB) work slightly different but are not inconsistent at all.

Home Button Detection via ADB (Default):

Home button detection / observation via ADB which works no matter in which App you currently are. For this option to work, it is important that ADB is enabled. If you are already on FireOS5 (Android v5.1), you have to make sure that no other device is connecting via ADB in parallel (In FireOS5 only one ADB connection in parallel is possible). If you want to use tools like adbFire, Amazon FireTV Utility App, Apps2Fire or similar, you should disable the ADB observation of the App and disable/enable ADB before you try to connect. If you want to use ADB observation of the App again, make sure you disable/enable ADB before using it (Shortcut to ADB settings is below this Setting).

Home Button Detection without ADB (automatic fallback):

The new option to toggle “Home-Detection via ADB” off in the App’s settings. With this setting off, home button detection will only work on the Fire TV’s home screen. This means that pressing the home button while inside an app will always take you to the Fire TV home screen, where then you can single or double press the home button to launch the apps you’ve configured in the App. This adds the interesting behavior which lets you toggle back and forth between the Fire TV home screen and an app by just pressing the home button. You’ll have to decide for yourself if this new home button behavior is worth having uninterrupted external ADB access.

Fallback to Non-ADB Observation:

This setting (which is enabled by default), causes an automatic fallback to the home button detection without ADB if the home button detection with ADB is not possible (e.g. because you are currently connecting via ADB from your PC or you are using tools like adbFire, Amazon FireTV Utility App, Apps2Fire or similar.

I personally prefer the home button detection without ADB, with the App set as single click application. This enables me to easily toggle between the App and the Default-Launcher with the Home-Button which is really convinient (small disadvantage: when coming from another App like Kodi, I need two home button clicks to open the App again). This also brings the advantage that I do not have to change anything if I want to connect via ADB.