Android TV 'Free TV Channels' app rolling out on homescreen
Android TV 'Free TV Channels' app rolling out on homescreen
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Android TV adding 'Free TV Channels' app that shows up on your homescreen
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Free as in riddled with ads probably?
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There are a lot.
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Anyone can link this "app" separately? Cause I disabled my AndroidTV launcher in exchange for a customizable launcher on my box and since that not only opened the box completely to me but also got rid of all the nasty "built-in" annoyances the company providing it added, I'm definitely not switching back.
Might even eventually return the box like this to my ISP in the end, cause I didn't do anything wrong: I didn't need root to get the above done, just used unrooted wireless adb... 😅
Edit: nm, I'm not American, so it won't stream here anyway. 😅
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Yah choosing a set top box is like picking the best of the worst. For me it’s sideloading that makes me choose android. But I should not have to choose a launcher to get rid of ads.
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Sadly that's not just an AndroidTV thing, regular cheap Androids have been known to include system-placed spyware even. But that doesn't mean I don't agree. I just first installed another launcher (which my topbox forcefully ignored of course and it ran it like an app (pressing home still went to their modded AndroidTV launcher)), so I then adb-disabled the AndroidTV-app (cause the option to do so inside Android was removed) and from that point I was as free as I could be without actually rooting it. It now boots, finds no launcher except my replacement so then boots that.
The risky part is that I am able to just uninstall this launcher, but if I ever would the device could become unusable. (Though then I could still adb-enable that AndroidTV app again, I suppose). Always best to have at least 1 launcher installed at all times, so first add, then remove... 😅
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What launcher did you use and how did you get it working?
I might get a TV soon and I wanted to know how you can do this
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