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[Android Apps and Games] brackenhill_mob:
@spocky12 This is doing my head in

I've got an old Firestick Lite 3rd Generation and the latest Fire TV Cube and ProjectIvy works like a dream. Thank you.

But I have a Fire TV Stick 4k (code name "mantis") which refuses to co-operate. The ProjectIvy icon in the Apps spaces is the Androind man rather than the proper one and the adb command above to enable accessibility does nothing and

and shell settings get secure enabled_accessibility_services

returns nothing/a null string.

I've tried using Accessibility Manager and this does get something to "stick" but it is not the full path to ProjectIvy as in the adb shell settings set comment in your post - the adb "get" command returns

com.spocky.projengmenu/.services.ProjectivyAccessibilityService

I have restored defaults and let it upgrade multiple times and only installed ProjectIvy so I'm confident that there is no other app interfering (unless it is a default installed one).

Any ideas what I can try next?

TIA
[Android Apps and Games] Qutayba Khader:
Thanks for the best Android Tv launcher ever, everthing is working on my nvidia shield, just a small useful features like (local backup/ weather widgets / date / clock ) will be grate ,

Thanks again :)
[Android Apps and Games] rb1213:
Question : Did anyone Root his Android TV to get the features from the Premium version of Projectivity Launcher?

(display manager).
[Android Apps and Games] HunterNet:
Tested the best launcher and the best solution for lasts android home tv upp. to 2.3.1ver. with shame adds , thanks to google and increible service .

Some remarks seen on last apk:

-noticed the same problems reported b4 with some gray icons on some apks.

-missed the old option on old tv launchers pressing the left arrow can't push the apk icon for open the main apk on videos . One need go up and press the correct apk window.

-the running videos like on Haystack News and similar, don't show on live windows , showing the static window only on launcher.

-Maybe a wifi Icon connection status at upper right should help more than a battery icon on a smart tv and finally i see much space lost on upper screen.

For the rest i wanna say you have maked the best tv launcher i never seen . Congrats sincerely , i start using it today and i wish i'll use thill my smart tv or me dies. Tank you so much , sincerely.
[Android Apps and Games] djdrumz:
on your thumbnail setting in Syncler do you currently use the "fan made" feature for your covers? Try turning off all the sideways settings so they are vertical and resync your android home settings and let me know. I dont have any issues with Syncler but mine are are all normal posters that arent sideways and they are from TMDB i bel6.
[Android Apps and Games] djdrumz:
I would try using a different epg source that is more universal
[Android Apps and Games] ivannns:
That was the problem. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] HunterNet:
you can use other apk file like

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with no option for choose nothing and you will see the results.
[Android Apps and Games] HunterNet:
My main idea of changes on Projectivy Launcher , my ideal number one Android Tv Launcher interactive .

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[Android Apps and Games] djdrumz:
No problem, I haven't any issues since I tried that. I've tried on the Nvidia Shield, Onn Box, TVision Box, and a few Chromecast w/ Google TV. I haven't been able to get the thumbnails to appear w/ Syncler while using the Google TV box though. :(
[Android Apps and Games] djdrumz:
It looks like its only doing it with image's that aren't https btw... I tested it out yesterday with a different service. I may be wrong but any like that was for http and they didn't work then.
[Android Apps and Games] djdrumz:
I've been trying everything... I have found a tool to even refresh all the cached images which makes things run faster
[Android Apps and Games] djdrumz:
BTW this is on the Shield @ivannns above
[Android Apps and Games] loznic89:
hi., how to get premium version in fire tv??
[Android Apps and Games] rb1213:
@spocky12 ... any plans for a new Build? (with Dutch language)
[Android Apps and Games] :
Don't ask for eta on builds. These devs do this in their spare time. It is rude to ask for eta on builds when they have life to attend to first. Just wait...
[Android Apps and Games] Olesya13:
I, unfortunately, do not know such a way.
[Android Apps and Games] myxamatosis:
I want to be Premium on my Android TV but there's an error.
[Android Apps and Games] Racle90:
Added Finnish translations: https://crowdin.com/project/projectivy-launcher/fi

(And if someone has better translations, feel free to edit)
[Android Apps and Games] rb1213:
We can always ask .. .maybe the project is dead who knows ;-) , I am not asking for new features like others ;-)

AND I did the translation my self
[Android Apps and Games] oguzkaan78:
I hide one of my apps and now I can't find it. How can I unhide apps ?
[Android Apps and Games] Gantori:
Hello,

I am using one these AndroidTV 11.0 S905W2 boxes from Amazon and I could not make my APK the Home Activity via ADB.exe

I need a launcher to make my APK

(A) the MainActivity (the only and only app to run on boot) and

(B) have the option to rotate the screen to Portrait on boot for *some* boxes.

I have been using Launcher Manager (LM (FOS) - 1.1.8.apk com.wolf.lm) to configure manually my APK as the home activity but it has nothing about (B) screen rotation.

FYI, there is NO screen rotation mention/option in the "Developer Options" menu of this box.

Regarding "MainActivity" aapt.exe output reveals there is a launchable-activity: name='org.mumti.MainActivity' so I don't know why adb does not succeed??

adb -s 192.168.1.120:5555 shell cmd package set-home-activity org.mumti/org.mumti.MainActivity

The reason adb fails setting my APK MainAcitivity may have to do with a post I read relating to the possibility that my APK is made of Java classes that are spread across more than one DEX file (Dalvik EXecutable) I am don't direct control over the building of my APK as it is developed with a hybrid framework (JavaScipt/HTML) and an Android/JAVA wrapper is put around it in the build process.

Reading here about your "Projectivy Launcher" sounds it does a lot of stuff I really don't need perhaps you can point me to a light sample app or code preferably Kotlin application that would launch my APK as the home screen.

FINALLY: let me know if I missed totally and there is a better forum for my questions. Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] zzcool:
I would love to slightly move the cards down so it looks exactly like Google TV right now they are too high up which makes it look slightly off to me as they aren't on Google TV

I would also like to be able to move the clock and hide the settings icon at the top

I would also like am option to get rid of the darkened second row Google TV doesn't darken the cards like that

An option that would be nice is to change the entire wallpaper after the card you're in similar to Google TV but rather than showing screenshots of movies it uses the current card

I would also pay for live wallpaper support that uses Screensaver apps l would pay 5 dollars to unlock that
[Android Apps and Games] rb1213:
the purpose of this launcher is to have a light TV launcher that is still functional for a TV, if you all keep asking to add features it will Use a lot more RAM & cpu !

....if you really need all those features , you can just use google TV launcher. (or another one)

so please leave this launcher Light.
[Android Apps and Games] talksickisil:
I love this launcher and bought premium months ago. Does anybody know why the app doesn’t always realize that I bought premium? It’s always when i see a really cool wallpaper that I want to set as user wallpaper. This doesn’t happen all the time but I am always on wifi with it so idk what causes the app to not verify I bought premium. Thanks in advance for any insight
[Android Apps and Games] Peat1980:
I think its not the goal to look exactly like Google TV and hopefully never will be... 🧐😀

I personally like the dim (or transparency) effect.

However, if you set the category line opacity to 90% for example there should be no dim, but minimal transparency instead. Should almost look like you want it. 😎👌
[Android Apps and Games] nyteryder79:
I absolutely love this launcher and just paid for premium. Thank you for all your hard work! I have a few suggstions/requests:

Add the ability to backup and restore all launcher settings. Backup could just be a json or xml file on the sdcard. This would make it simple to apply the same settings to multiple devices or setting Projectivy back up from scratch.

Add the ability to move the first/top row up or down as needed to be able to fill the "whitespace" above the top row.

When clicking the back button on the homescreen to return to the first icon of the first row, prevent the splash screen for the launcher from displaying.

When selecting a background image, the file browser that is used requires a mouse to navigate. At least this is how it behaves on my devices (Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 and Onn 4k). Perhaps build a custom browser to browse files on the sdcard using just a remote. Doesn't need to be fancy, just list the files and allow the user to navigate directories and select an image. Remote control navigation being the key point here.
[Android Apps and Games] zzcool:
Well i would personally love if it didn't start to cover the entire wallpaper as you move down I want the cards at the bottom not the middle I like Google TV without the bloat and ads but the card arrangement of Google TV looks cleaner to me and I would like to replicate that, right now if you move a row down it pushes the top row up covering the wallpaper it could just move down without moving the cards and the top row could be where the second row is then it would be logical to have that movement as it would have to move then it would look so much cleaner, you have a wallpaper because you want it to be seen not covered.

And the dynamic wallpaper is nice but too subtle for my taste I want more colors, but personally I would love to take a random Screensaver app as the thousands available and have it play in the background I wouod pay a good price for that option.

Would also be nice if everything could darken after a moment or when there's no movement this would be great for oled tvs ontop of all other standby measures
[Android Apps and Games] backcountrymountains:
This is a great project! It works and looks amazing!

I actually don't need it for a TV, but I'm using it on my slightly hacked Lenovo Clock 2 because it is the _only_ method I've found to start an app on boot. The clock reboots daily (not the best device) and I need to open up my browser app after reboot.

Would it be possible to share the launch an app on boot code with the world as a standalone app? Is that code only effective when it's run from a launcher? I just need to start a browser every time my device starts, without user interaction.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] Peat1980:
Then you should set line opacity to 0%. This way projectivy will only show the active row at the bottom. So you could stare at your lovely wallpaper all the time until you can't see it anymore and have to replace it. 😁😁😁
[Android Apps and Games] brackenhill_mob:
You can do this with apps like Tasker or Automate (I use this method to load a VPN when the device boots)
[Android Apps and Games] juliatan:
I don't need premium features. I like setting wallpaper none most, looks clean. Also don't understand and care what display profile does. BUT I STILL BOUGHT PREMIUM VERSION OF THIS LAUNCHER BECAUSE IT IS WORTH IT SUPPORTING.

So much better than stock launcher with recommendations (= ads in my distionary). To me useless recommendations of things I would not watch with a gun to my head. And also some recommendations I considered highly unfit for children to see by the way, And reports by people now seeing product ads (such as for perfum and cars). I HATE ADS!!!

So thanks for this finally good enough Android TV launcher that also supports channels (for my TVQuickActions row) and other features that other 3rd party launchers do not support.
[Android Apps and Games] izanaghi:
Hi Guys, I have a wemax one pro and when watching HD content I get blurry images when there is movement in dark scenes.

The video projector is 1080p but supports 4K playback and in 4K this issue disappear completely .

what do you think could be causing this ?

thanks,
[Android Apps and Games] rb1213:
wrong topic...this is about the launcger not a projector (but it could be bad compression in the video)
[Android Apps and Games] Bobbis2000:
I installed it on my CCWGTV and think it's great. However, adding my smarttube feed to the home screen was not an option (just youtube). Also, some of my "Next Up" programs were opening in TVBro, which I don't want.

I uninstalled TV Bro and I thought that fixed it, but when I click on an HBO show , it says something like "There's no app to open that."

Also, Netflix isn't an option to display as a channel with upcoming programs
[Android Apps and Games] tlanelabs:
has anyone found a way to completely "lock down" all the settings. From what I can tell the parental controls only prevents opening actual apps but not the settings for the launcher itself

Example I don't want anyone to be able to rearrange the apps, categories, etc. Basically if there is a way to prevent the opening of the "gear" menu at the top and maybe the left side panel that would be great.
[Android Apps and Games] DoctorMoon:
Notifications are not showing on my NVIDIA Shield TV Pro using the Play Store version of Projectivy.

I would like to have less empty space at the top of the screen when looking at the top categories.

When looking at my top category, the top half of the screen is just empty space currently, and I can only see the top category and half of the next category.

If it was moved up towards the top of the screen, we could see more categories below, which I would prefer.

EDIT: Looking through the thread a bit more, I see this has already been suggested.

Also wanna say thanks for making this app. I just discovered it yesterday and I'm really liking it.
[Android Apps and Games] manolodf:
I would love to see a Backup/Restore feature on this. I recently came upon the launcher for a need to restrict settings and once I get my homescreen perfect I need to replicate it, and that would be so time consuming on all of my devices, a backup, save to network folder and restore would really help out in getting my config to all my android tv devices way easier.

Is there a workaround to be able to be able to get this done manually somehow? I just have a few devices for my vacation rentals and I need them to be identical after I finish setting up one device. So same locks, same app positions etc.
[Android Apps and Games] IronMan1977777:
Running Premium 4.24 on my Xiaomi 4k UST - there is no Option for Installaing Third Party Apps under Applications. Is this a bug?
[Android Apps and Games] corrsea:
Used Projectivy Launcher on my Chinese Xiaomi UST projector which it was originally designed for. Was really pleased to see it was available as a launcher when I purchased my Nvidia Shield TV Pro. It works almost perfectly. I have noticed it runs into some issues if i fully reboot the shield. It loses the ability to overide the native launcher and its accessibility service gets switched off. The first time it happened the only way i could get it to work again was to uninstall and reinstall it again. It would be great if there was a way to back up settings in case this happens sgain. I think this has already been suggested before.

It would also be nice if there was an option to increase the size of the font on the categories titles.

Finally, when scrolling left on a category I often overshoot and enter the list of categories. I would prefer not to do this unless I actually want to edit something. Perhaps this could be changed to a long press on the scroll left buttom.

Anyway this is only nit picking. Overall this is a great app. Keep up the good work.
[Android Apps and Games] ErAzOr2k:
Hi,

any plans for adding tabs like in google tv launcher (Live, Movies, Shows, ...)? With the ability to add apps and/or channels individually to each tab?
[Android Apps and Games] Dixkg:
Great app! please add the weather module, and please add the WiFi Icon
[Android Apps and Games] PuckBass:
That would beat the purpose of using a custom launcher.........

It's what everyone on here is using the launcher to escape from ....
[Android Apps and Games] hungz92:
Thank you for this great software

most features work on my redmi x65t

It would be perfect if there were some features

- custom time zone display time different from device time zone

- live wallpaper, video wallpaper

- watch next add stube next , steamio ...

- widget

- suggestions from video apps like google tv ( youtube , google tv , netflix , stube next , steamio ...)

- I would like to have more support for the language - Vietnamese (i can support )

really will be a perfect and complete application

sorry if i'm too greedy
[Android Apps and Games] hungz92:
I'm willing to pay for the premium version, pay from outside of google ,google service not working on my tv
[Android Apps and Games] Darkoholic:
Hi all, is it possible to Disable the animations in the launcher?
[Android Apps and Games] Zereus:
Love how fast the launcher is and that i can sort all apps in categories.

But I have one big problem. There is an app called "Toggo", de.toggo (german kids TV). Installed from play store. It doesn't show up in the launcher.

In the nvidia shield launcher i can see it.
[Android Apps and Games] PuckBass:
again people asking for soo much stuff that would make using this launcher useless..... use the stock one if you want all that stuff !

we are using third party custom launcher to go away from bunch of tabs and suggestion

and smartube (both beta and stable) is supported just install it correctly ( both the app and the bridge for global search)
[Android Apps and Games] hungz92:
I think everyone needs these ,Beautiful and convenient to use
[Android Apps and Games] hungz92:
ok i see <3
[Android Apps and Games] yorfa:
@spocky12

hi spocky,its me Eray

i updated new Turkish strings

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we are still waiting about TV+ app preview good news.

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beyler uygulamanın türkcelestirmesini ben yaptım.kullanıp eksik gördügünüz yerler varsa bana iletin lütfen.

ayrıca ana ekranda TV+ uygulamasının kanallarının önizlemesi gelmiyor şimdilik ama geliştiriciyle mailleşiyorum çözmeye çalışcaz.
[Android Apps and Games] hungz92:
i found an bug, smart tube next suggestions do not refresh even when i have restarted tv and refresh many times in the apps

steamio shows new content, but stube next doesn't
[Android Apps and Games] jhedfors:
@spocky12 Request: While in another app, pressing Home should continue to bring focus back to current position on Home screen. However, if already in the launcher and pressing Home (currently it does nothing), can we have it reset the icon positions (scroll to first icon on row) and put focus back on top row left-most icon?
[Android Apps and Games] spocky12:
Hey,

Sorry for the silence. Next release is approaching. There wont be live wallpapers (not even sure this is possible on android tv) or widget support in this version. Grey channels thumbnails should mostly be fixed.

I'll throw a look. Are you sure you enabled the accessibility service ?

Thanks for all the suggestions ! Some wil be added in the next release. Several might come in a future build.

I've simplified the ability to add/remove apps on categories. Next version should be much easier to customize.

Projectivy displays the battery if the system tells it that a battery is present. That's a bug on your rom.

Regarding mobile/tv sections, they are split for a reason. But you could still make a custom category with all of them.

I think I have a Mantis (that's the only fireTv I have), I'll have a look (maybe it's been updated since I checked).

What's the message ?

You can find a few Android Tv launchers on Github, there you should be able to compare with what you've done and fix your app.

There's no wallpaper manager in Android Tv, so not sure I can support live wallpapers, but it's on my todo list.

Don't worry, I keep on optimizing Projectivy. Features I add should not impact perfs and/or ram (or at least if they do, you should be able to enable/disable them)

This is weird. I'll check the code, but I think the checks are dynamic (there's not only 1 check at launch), so if internet is available on your device, Google Play should report you have premium (it does here).

1. next release ;)

2. next release ;)

3. Looks like a bug

4. That's not so easy. I became hard to develop a file browser (at least, Google play won't validate the app if it's not its main purpose). They say you should rely on other apps to do such things (apps should only acces their own folders), but unfortunately, Android Tv doesn't offer many options for file browsers, galleries... PErhaps you can try installing anothe rfile manager ?

The most reliable way I found to do it is by using the Accessibility Service.

I've fixed a bug related to this. Sometimes, android doesn't find the appropriate default app to launch a channel.

Next release ;)

You need to enable notifications for projectivy in the system settings.

Next release

Google Play doesn't support apps the instal other apps. You need to install the xda version.

which animations are you talking about ? apps appearing ?

I'll have a look

does it work on stock launcher ?
[Android Apps and Games] zzcool:
If you force the Screensaver to run behind the app as an app in itself then maybe I also hope you'll consider copying the tiles of Google TV so it looks exactly like it in size and placement
[Android Apps and Games] DoctorMoon:
I do have notifications enabled, they're just not working.
[Android Apps and Games] Darkoholic:
Yes exactly friend, the apps appearing. I would like the apps to appear instantly with no animation. Best regards 🙏🏻
[Android Apps and Games] spocky12:
Not that simple.

Usually, apps that don't have focus (which would be the case for the screensaver in your workaround) stop most of their work, so they will probably not animate anymore.

Worst, Projectivy background would have to be transparent to appear above the screensaver. This is something that Google forbids on Google play (the 1st ever release of Projectivy tools was refused on Google play because of this).

Anyway if there's a workaround, I'll find it, but this will have to wait for a future release. And due to its total uncertainty, it has a lower priority than widgets, which is another big thing to add.
[Android Apps and Games] jhedfors:
I am using Launcher Manager to make Projectivy my default launcher.

https://xdaforums.com/t/app-firetv-...-change-launcher-without-root.4176349//unread

Many of the buttons don't function (app shortcuts, settings button, etc). Are button mappings part of Projectivy code? I don't want to enable Accessibility as that messes up the Live Channels app, which I use the most.
[Android Apps and Games] hungz92:
sad that new versions of smart tube stable and beta are not supported to show suggestions on launcher , it only shows when old smart tube versions are installed a long time ago , and error does not refresh suggestions , other apps show normal suggestions
[Android Apps and Games] hungz92:
that before i install the new smart tube , delete the old smart tube app , it doesn't refresh the suggestion