TellyGrid v0.8.0-alpha.8

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TellyGrid 0.8.0-alpha.8

TellyGrid is a UK home screen for Android TV: recommendations from your apps, a live TV guide, and one click straight to the show.

New in alpha 8

• Favourites tab. Works like a Sky or Virgin record list. Hold OK on any Home card or the banner (or press Menu/Info) and pick Add to Favourites, or just press the Record button on your remote. Saved shows get a red dot. In the Guide, programme details have an Add to Favourites button, and it follows the series on any channel.
• In-app updates. Settings → App updates checks for new versions, downloads them and opens the installer. No more sideloading every release. TellyGrid also checks quietly at launch and tells you once when something new is out.
• Home button goes straight to TellyGrid. Pressing Home no longer flashes the TV's built-in launcher first.
• Guided setup screen. The first time you open TellyGrid it walks you through turning on the Home button override, and it comes back if the TV ever switches it off.
• Apps list refreshes itself. Install or remove an app and the Apps page updates straight away.
• Tidier Settings. The old discovery+ accessibility workaround is gone. discovery+ channels open through their direct links.

Installing

• Updating from alpha 7: download the APK below and install it over the top. Your settings are kept.
• New install: sideload the APK, open TellyGrid and follow the setup screen.
• For future updates: allow Install unknown apps for TellyGrid when asked (or in your TV's Security settings). After that, Settings → App updates does the rest.

Tested on a Philips Android 11 Freeview Play TV. Please report problems, and which TV or box you use, in Issues.

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This discussion was created from the release TellyGrid v0.8.0-alpha.8.