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Shore is a plainer home screen for Android TV and Google TV. It shows your apps, the devices on HDMI and a photo you chose, with the time, the weather and a headline in the corner. Hold Home and you are back in Google TV.

New here? Start with Installation. Something not working? See Troubleshooting.

Get started

Page	What it covers
Installation	Install Shore with adb, once.
Home button	Make the Home key open Shore; the TCL auto start fix.
Updates	How Shore updates itself, and what release APKs leave out.
Verified devices	The TVs and devices Shore has been run on.
Troubleshooting	Common problems and their fixes.

Using Shore

Page	What it covers
Home screen	Dock, List and Shelf, your apps, icons, Continue watching.
HDMI inputs	A tile for each device that is switched on.
Search and settings	Search, the Settings pages, language.
Wallpapers	Bundled, online, animated and your own photos; rotation.
Under the clock	Weather, headlines, calendar, now playing, widgets.
Music view	The cover, controls and synced lyrics.
Screensaver, night and sleep	Shore's screensaver, night mode, sleep timer.
Remote buttons	Give any remote button a job.
Parental lock and screen time	A PIN and daily limits per app.
Performance	Auto, High end, Balanced and Potato.
Phone companion	A web app on your phone, served by the TV.
Add-ons	Home Assistant, Pi-hole and AdGuard, weather effects, headlines, widgets.
Top Shelf	Recommendations above the Shelf layout.

For developers

Page	What it covers
Build from source	Gradle, API keys, GitHub Actions, the browser preview, the repository layout.
Credits and licences	Who made what, and the terms of the pictures and data.

Questions and support

Discord is usually the fastest way to reach the maintainer. Bugs and TV reports go to GitHub issues. Shore is free; if you would like to support it: Ko-fi · GitHub Sponsors.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with TCL, Google or any streaming service. Everything here is reversible, and each step says how.