Pakflix v0.3.0 - Cinematic Home Hero
Current stable release.
Pakflix v0.3.0 begins the v0.3.x visual identity work with a cinematic Home hero row designed for TV navigation.
Highlights
- Added a cinematic Home hero row.
- Hero starts as row 0 and participates in the Home row stack.
- Fire TV remote support: OK/Enter opens Details, and left/right cycles hero items.
- Added a 7-second slideshow.
- Balanced movie/TV hero candidates, targeting 3 movies + 3 series when available.
- Episodes resolve to parent series and are never shown directly as hero slides.
- Uses global background/backdrop behavior to avoid boxed duplicate artwork.
- Normalizes odd resolution badges like 816p to user-friendly labels like 1080p.
- Preserves updater, playback, signing, package name, and existing Home rows.
Known Deferred Work
- v0.3.1 Home IA: Collections row, Movies/TV top nav, and Other Media page investigation.
- v0.3.2 genre rails.
- v0.3.x polish: startup sound, splash polish, and transition polish.
- v0.4.x player/playback engine work.
Verification
- Fire TV hero behavior was tested successfully before release prep.
- Local release build passed.
- APK package verified as
com.pakflix.tv. - Version verified as
0.3.0 / 300. - Release signer verified against the canonical Pakflix certificate.
Preserved
- Updater logic is unchanged.
- Playback behavior is unchanged.
- Direct Play, Direct Stream, and Transcode behavior are unchanged.
- Compose player remains disabled.
- Release signing and package name are unchanged.