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LTvLauncher

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🚀 Overview

LTvLauncher is an open-source, private, and ad-free launcher designed specifically for Android TV, Google TV, and Fire TV devices. Built with Flutter, it delivers a responsive, remote-friendly interface focused on simplicity, speed, and deep customization.

With native D-pad navigation, recency-sorted Continue Watching rows, customizable categories, dynamic weather & status bar widgets, TV input source switching, system-wide notification overlays, and OLED screensavers, LTvLauncher gives you total control over your TV home screen without intrusive ads or algorithmic noise.

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📸 Screenshots

Home Screen	Settings Overview	Category & Layout	Accessibility & Remap	OLED Screensaver
Home Screen	Settings Overview	Category & Layout	Accessibility & Remap	OLED Screensaver

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✨ Features

🎬 Continue Watching & Channels

• Smart Recency Sorting: Automatically aggregates and sorts Watch Next program cards by their latest playback timestamp, ensuring your most recently watched shows and movies always appear first.
• Theme-Adaptive Cards: Media cards automatically adapt to the active visual style, including glowing focus indicators, border outlines, and corner radiuses.
• Clean Settings Configuration: Toggle the Continue Watching channel directly from Settings without cluttering the home screen with persistent permission warnings.

🌤️ Status Bar & Weather Integration

• Breezy Weather Integration: Seamless support for local weather forecasts via Breezy Weather and Open-Meteo.
• Smart Unit Conversion: Automatic Kelvin-to-Celsius/Fahrenheit auto-detection and conversion to prevent temperature anomalies.
• Weather Indicators: Configurable precipitation/rain warning icons and customizable refresh intervals.
• Live Data Consumption Tracker: Monitor daily network bandwidth (WiFi, Ethernet, or Mobile) directly from the status bar.
• Quick WiFi Shortcut: Network status icon doubles as a 1-click shortcut to system WiFi settings.
• Stable Focus Traversal: Precise remote focus alignment preventing focus jumps when navigating the status bar.

🔔 System Notifications & TV Keypad Control

• Global Floating Overlays: Receive real-time notification alerts overlaid across any running TV app.
• Notification Drawer: Dedicated remote-friendly panel to view, inspect, and manage system notifications.
• Intuitive Blocked Apps Manager: Clean TV remote D-pad controls (Up/Down navigation, Left/Right quick removal, and Clear All) to block unwanted notifications.

🎨 Themes, Customization & Banners

• 4 Distinct Visual Themes: Choose between Modern / Default, Premium, Classic, and Capsule card styles.
• Accent Color Engine: Personalize the launcher with multiple vibrant color swatches and presets.
• Dynamic Wallpapers: Time-based automatic switching between day and night backgrounds, or a true pitch-black background for OLED displays.
• Custom Banner Support: Assign custom banner images to sideloaded and unthemed Android TV apps.
• High-Visibility Focus Indicators: Double-border focus indicator ensuring sharp cursor visibility on any background, complete with edge bump resistance.

📺 TV Inputs & Accessibility

• Hardware Input Source Selector: Quickly switch between HDMI 1, HDMI 2, AV, and component inputs directly from the launcher.
• Built-in Home Button Fix: Seamless accessibility remapper service for Google TV and Fire TV devices that override default launchers.
• Burn-in Protection Screensaver: Minimal OLED screensaver with 30-second clock position shifting.
• Audio Feedback: Remote key navigation sound feedback.

💾 Privacy & Data Management

• 100% Ad-Free & Private: No analytics, no ads, no trackers, zero network telemetry.
• Multiple Backups & Restore Dialog: Export configuration backups with timestamps and restore them via a D-pad friendly picker.
• Category Customization: Reorder, rename, hide, and organize apps in grid or row layouts with remote arrow keys.

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📥 Download

Get it on GitHub

Get it on IzzyOnDroid

Downloader Code: 7259827

Pre-release

Architecture Matrix

File	Target Devices	Architecture
LTvLauncher-universal-release.apk	Recommended for any Android TV or Fire TV device	Universal
LTvLauncher-arm64-v8a-release.apk	Chromecast with Google TV (4K/HD), Nvidia Shield TV, newer smart TVs	64-bit ARM (arm64-v8a)
LTvLauncher-armeabi-v7a-release.apk	Fire TV Stick (Lite, 4K, 4K Max), older smart TVs, budget boxes	32-bit ARM (armeabi-v7a)

[!TIP] Fast Installation via the Downloader App (Fire TV & Android TV):

1. Open the Downloader app by AFTVnews on your TV (available on Amazon Appstore & Google Play Store).
2. Enter quick code 7259827 in the URL / search box.
3. Downloader will automatically download and prompt you to install the latest LTvLauncher release.

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🛠️ Setup Guide

Method 1: Via Built-in Settings (Recommended for Android TV)

This is the easiest and native way:

1. Open Settings -> Accessibility -> Set as default launcher.
2. Select LTvLauncher from the system home app picker or default apps list.

[!NOTE] On Google TV, the stock launcher (com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx) registers its HOME intent with priority 2, which overrides third-party launcher selections. If your device returns to Google TV when pressing Home, use Method 2.

Method 2: Home Button Fix (Google TV & Fire TV)

If your device blocks changing the default launcher, use LTvLauncher's built-in Home Button Fix:

1. Open Settings -> Accessibility.
2. Select Home Button Fix (Google TV).
3. Turn on the accessibility service for LTvLauncher in your system settings.

Once enabled, LTvLauncher automatically intercepts Home button presses and brings you straight to your custom home screen.

Method 3: Remap the Home button via Key Mapper

If you prefer key remapping:

1. Install Key Mapper.
2. Create a trigger for your remote's Home button.
3. Bind the action to launch LTvLauncher.

Method 4: Disable the default launcher via ADB

[!WARNING] Disabling system packages carries risks. Proceed with caution and ensure you have ADB debugging enabled on your TV.

Connect your computer to your TV via ADB (adb connect <tv-ip-address>) and run:

# Disable the default Google TV launcher
$ adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx

# Disable setup fallback to prevent auto-reenabling
$ adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith

To re-enable the default launcher at any time:

$ adb shell pm enable com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
$ adb shell pm enable com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith

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🤝 Community & Contributing

• Bug Reports & Feature Requests: Open a GitHub Issue
• Discussions & Feedback: GitHub Discussions
• Official Telegram Channel: @LeanBitLab

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💖 Support the Project

Building and maintaining a lightweight, ad-free Android TV launcher requires hardware testing across various TV chipsets, display profiles, and continuous development.

If LTvLauncher improves your daily TV experience, please consider supporting our work!

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📜 Credits & Acknowledgments

• FLauncher by etienn01 — The original TV launcher project.
• FLauncher (Fork) by osrosal — The foundation for this fork.
• All contributors and open-source supporters!

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⚖️ License

LTvLauncher is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0).
See the LICENSE file for details.