Upcoming improvements
- Sports Section: The Sports screen is currently available only in internal debug builds. A public release is planned once a reliable data source for up-to-date sports events and channel information is found.
Release Notes
Nexus Stream TV Changelog
Recent updates, improvements and fixes for the Android TV app. Nexus Stream TV is a media player only and does not provide or sell any video content.
Privacy controls, optional crash reports and backup security hardening
- Crash Reports: Added optional Firebase Crashlytics crash and ANR reports with explicit user consent before reporting is enabled.
- User Control: Added a Crash Reports switch in Settings → About, so crash reporting can be enabled or disabled at any time.
- Privacy by Default: Crash reporting is disabled by default, and the app continues to work normally if users decline.
- Legal & Privacy: Improved first-start legal onboarding and added direct Terms, Privacy and Imprint links inside the app.
- Backup & Restore: Improved full-snapshot backup behavior so restored backups preserve more account and provider setup data.
- Secret Storage: Improved encrypted storage for sensitive app data and removed plaintext fallback handling.
- TMDB Security: TMDB session data is migrated from DataStore into encrypted secret storage.
- Stability: Added further internal cleanup and verification for safer future updates.
- Xtream Playback: Fixed HTTP 403 playback failures on affected Xtream providers by applying provider-compatible User-Agent headers consistently across API and Media3 stream requests.
- Stream Compatibility: Added controlled User-Agent fallback handling for Live TV, VOD movies and series episodes.
- Provider Stability: Improved playback reliability for providers that use stricter security or request filtering.
- VOD Quick Actions: Add a context menu for movie and series titles in VOD overviews, allowing quick actions such as adding or removing favorites, adding or removing watchlist items, and playing trailers directly.
- Xtream Compatibility: Improved compatibility with Xtream providers that require different request headers or security handling.
- HTTP 403 Handling: Fixed connection issues where some valid Xtream accounts could be rejected with HTTP 403.
- Provider Fallback: Added automatic request fallback handling for different provider security configurations.
- Profile Login: Improved reliability when testing or adding Xtream and Xtream M3U profiles.
- Connection Stability: Added general provider connection stability improvements.
- Live TV Groups: Added support for hiding complete Live TV channel groups.
- Group Management: Added bulk hide/show actions for Live TV channel groups.
- Live TV Navigation: Fixed focus restoration issues across Timeline, Vertical Zapping and Horizontal Quick Zap layouts.
- Large Channel Lists: Improved performance and stability when browsing providers with many channels or groups.
- Stability: Added further under-the-hood fixes for Live TV, provider data handling and Android TV navigation.
- Live TV Recovery: Live streams now automatically try to recover when playback remains frozen or buffering for too long.
- Live TV Restart: Live streams that end unexpectedly are now restarted automatically when possible.
- Recovery Safety: Recovery attempts are limited and reset after stable playback to avoid endless retry loops.
- Player Cleanup: Improved playback cleanup when switching channels or releasing the player.
- Diagnostics: Live TV playback health, buffering duration and recovery attempts are now captured more reliably in diagnostic logs.
- Diagnostics Export: Rotated diagnostic log files are now included in exports for better troubleshooting.
- Live TV Recovery: Improved playback recovery and diagnostics for unexpected stream interruptions.
- TV Guide Stability: Fixed crashes in TV Guide and provider lists caused by duplicate channel or category IDs.
- Memory Usage: Reduced memory usage when loading cached metadata, improving stability on lower-memory Android TV devices.
- Provider Data: Improved handling of malformed provider data and invalid Xtream profile URLs.
- Player Stability: Prevented rare player initialization conflicts.
- Live TV: Fixed a crash in TV Guide mode when providers return duplicate channel or group IDs, such as multiple entries with ID “0”.
- Live TV EPG: Fixed an edge case where the currently playing channel could lose its EPG data after app startup or while scrolling far away from the active channel.
- Player Overlay: The Live TV overlay now prefers the selected channel data when it matches the currently playing stream, so the program description stays consistent.
- Provider Cache: Improved cache writing for very large provider and metadata payloads to reduce memory pressure on Android TV devices.
- Large Catalog Stability: Cache data is now written in chunks more safely, avoiding large temporary JSON strings that could cause out-of-memory crashes.
- Crash Protection: If a device runs out of memory while writing cache data, the cache write is skipped instead of crashing the app.
- Details Screen: Fixed an issue where Episodes were not loading correctly.
- Live TV EPG: Improved timeline performance for much smoother navigation, especially on 4K Android TV devices and large channel lists.
- Custom EPG: Fixed an issue where Custom EPG sources were not loading correctly.
- Last Channel Restore: The last played Live TV channel now restores the correct source group, such as “All Channels”.
- Search Performance: Improved search scalability with optimized indexing and reduced repeated work while typing.
- M3U Performance: Improved M3U series lookup performance by avoiding repeated full playlist parsing where possible.
- TMDB Caching: Improved metadata caching and request deduplication to reduce repeated TMDB lookups during browsing and details navigation.
- Provider Caching: Improved Xtream and Stalker cache handling with clearer fresh/stale cache behavior and better fallback handling during provider issues.
- Playback Progress: Improved playback progress storage to reduce unnecessary background writes while keeping resume behavior reliable.
- Network Shares: Improved network-share scan and poster loading behavior with more efficient background work.
- Diagnostics: Added better performance diagnostics for slow catalog loading, search, EPG, metadata and provider operations.
- Stability: Reduced blocking background work and improved performance consistency across large IPTV, VOD and series catalogs.
- Performance: Replaced expensive real-time scrim rendering with optimized PNG-based overlays, significantly improving UI performance on Android TV devices.
- 4K Browsing: Improved smoothness on lower-powered devices, especially when browsing poster-heavy screens in 4K.
- Poster Scrolling: Added debounce handling for background refreshes while scrolling through posters, reducing unnecessary image and backdrop updates.
- Localization: Updated app translations and improved localized text across supported languages.
- Stability: Added further under-the-hood cleanup and performance refinements for a smoother Android TV experience.
- Player: Added an optional setting to hide Skip Intro / Skip Recap buttons for movies while keeping them available for series.
- Player: Aspect ratio changes are now saved, so the selected display mode no longer has to be adjusted every time.
- Playback Fix: Fixed an issue where some titles with 8 audio channels, such as 7.1 audio tracks, could fail to play correctly when passthrough and stereo downmixing were involved.
- Performance Options: Added Appearance settings to disable smooth poster scrolling and poster edge fades for better performance on lower-powered Android TV devices.
- Network Security: Added a stricter network security configuration for known API services while keeping HTTP compatibility for IPTV streams, local network sources and provider playlists.
- API Traffic Safety: First-party and metadata service connections are now better protected against accidental cleartext usage.
- Android TV Focus Handling: Centralized repeated DPAD focus retry logic into a reusable TV focus helper to improve long-term navigation stability.
- Details Screen: Continued decomposition of the Details screen into smaller, more maintainable UI components for episodes, cast and similar titles.
- Home & Metadata Architecture: Continued internal cleanup by moving catalog and metadata orchestration toward reusable domain use cases.
- Maintainability: Reduced architectural complexity in large UI and ViewModel areas, making future updates safer and easier to debug.
- Stability: Added further under-the-hood fixes and cleanup to improve reliability across Android TV devices.
- Hardened Backup Security: Reworked backup encryption to use Android Keystore-based key handling instead of a static internal backup password. Existing legacy backups remain readable through a compatibility path.
- Room-Based User Data Foundation: Added Room database support for core user data such as favorites, watchlist entries and playback progress, preparing the app for safer and more scalable local storage.
- Safer Data Migration: Added a startup migration path from the previous DataStore-based JSON storage into Room, with row-count verification and source fingerprinting to avoid unnecessary repeated migration work.
- More Stable Provider Caching: Moved Xtream VOD and Series catalog caching toward Room-based storage, with support for fresh-cache reads, stale fallback on temporary network failures and legacy file-cache import on first use.
- Improved Stalker/Ministra Cache Handling: Stalker Live, VOD and Series catalog caches now use the same Room-backed cache layer, while existing legacy cache files remain available as a read-only fallback.
- Large Catalog Stability: Large provider catalog responses are now stored in chunked cache rows to avoid Android CursorWindow limitations and improve reliability with very large IPTV catalogs.
- Improved Cache Cleanup: Clearing provider caches now removes both legacy file-based cache data and newer Room-based Xtream/Stalker cache entries.
- Reduced DataStore Pressure: Continued work to move large object lists away from DataStore JSON blobs, reducing memory pressure and lowering the risk of slow serialization or data corruption.
- Architecture Groundwork: Continued internal preparation for future Details screen and Home screen performance work, while keeping this release focused on persistence, migration safety and cache stability.
- Faster App Startup: Modernized the internal app architecture to reduce unnecessary work during launch and improve cold-start performance.
- Smoother Live TV EPG Navigation: Improved Live TV guide handling for smoother scrolling, better responsiveness, and fewer slowdowns while navigating channels and program data.
- More Reliable Metadata Cache: Improved local movie and series metadata caching for better memory efficiency and more reliable offline loading of previously opened details.
- Improved Internal Stability: Refactored dependency handling and cache access to make the app more robust, easier to maintain, and safer to extend in future updates.
- Security Hardening: Moved sensitive configuration out of the app source code and improved internal handling of build-time configuration.
- Under-the-Hood Improvements: This release focuses mainly on performance, architecture, security, and long-term stability without changing the familiar TV interface or remote-control navigation.
- Perceptual Dynamic Backgrounds: Enhanced "Partial Backdrop" mode in Appearance Settings. Colder colors (blue, purple, cool green) now stay rich and vibrant, accompanied by a new, soft bottom-left "ambient aurora glow" behind details text.
- Xiaomi TV & Mi Box Voice Input: Restored missing Voice Search/microphone button functionality on all Xiaomi-based Android TV and Mi Box devices.
- Seamless Menu Reordering: Completely refactored the Top Navigation Bar. Customizing your main menu now features butter-smooth sliding animations for both menu tabs and helper hints.
- Butter-Smooth Episode Scrolling: Fixed visual jumps and stuttering in the Series Episode list when rapidly scrolling with a held-down DPAD remote button.
- Globally Localized UI Hints: Added full translations for all main menu customization hints across all 13 supported languages (including German, French, Spanish, etc.).
- Optimized Live TV EPG & Logo Loading: Smoother Live TV navigation behavior and significantly reduced duplicate EPG and channel logo loading.
- Cleaner & More Maintainable Codebase: Deep internal refactoring of larger screens (Details, Settings, and Player) to improve loading speed, reduce redundant metadata, and ensure rock-solid remote DPAD navigation stability.
- Improved Live TV zapping info with a more compact view while switching channels, while full details remain available when opened manually.
- Improved translations.
- Improved focus visibility for title cards across Movies and Series screens.
- Improved actor filmographies with more complete title results.
- Added new background styles, including partial backdrops and dynamic color.
- Improved TV channel logo fallback when provider logos fail to load.
- Added Auto Skip Intro / Recap and Auto Next Episode options.
- Added an optional Last Channel button for Live TV.
- Improved speech recognition compatibility on Android TV devices.
- Improved autostart after device boot.
- Fixed Live TV startup metadata for the last watched channel.
- Fixed localized episode titles in series details.
- Improved Vertical VOD navigation and focus restore.
- Improved playback history management, including clear history and per-title removal.
- Improved metadata source settings for VOD titles, plots and episode titles.
- Episode lists now keep focus correctly when scrolling up.
- Fixed external app search buttons when no matching title is found.
- Actor search posters now load faster and more reliably.
- VOD details can now show either TMDB metadata or IPTV provider data.
- Episode lists are less likely to show outdated cached data.
- VOD group navigation now supports wrap-around at the end of the group list.
- Search has been improved and now finds more related results.
- Top navigation items can now be hidden for a cleaner layout.
- Fixed Continue Watching behavior.
- Added TheIntroDB support.
- Improved stability.
- Added general improvements across the app.
- Adjusted diagnostic logging.
- Improved title cleanup for more accurate matching and search results.
- Improved handling of missing episodes when some Xtream providers return incomplete or empty series data.
- Added an FPS indicator in the Player screen.
- Added general stability and navigation improvements.
- Settings are now easier to browse with clearer sections for Appearance, Playback, Live TV, Movies & Series, Behavior, Integrations, Support, and About.
- VOD and Live TV settings now have their own dedicated area.
- Added a separate Live TV option for collapsible groups, independent from the compact EPG timeline setting.
- Added new Back button exit behavior options.
- Added voice input support in the Search screen.
- Improved Android TV remote navigation across Settings, Search, and Live TV.
- Added a debug mode with anonymized logs and secure upload to help with troubleshooting.
- Added an option to disable automatic playback of the last viewed channel.
- Added customizable seek steps.
- Added flexible channel switching controls.
- Added custom OK button behavior in VOD.
- Extended parental controls.
- The quick info box now includes more details.
- Added actor search.
- The player can now display stream resolution instead of tags.
- Local backups now export to Downloads.
- Added a setting to refresh the playlist and EPG when opening Live TV, or use cached data instead.
- Improved Polish translations, especially for Catch-up / Replay TV.
- Fixed a white flash during app launch.
- Fixed movie and series seeking jumping by more than 10 seconds on single DPAD taps.
- Fixed channel focus jumping back while scrolling through long Quick-Zap channel lists.
- Improved channel logo rendering in Live TV and Replay TV.
- Improved scrolling stability for channel lists with more than 100 channels per group.
- Hardened profile creation and connection handling.
- Source tag is now hidden when only one source is available.
- Live TV vertical layout now closes with DPAD Left while navigating groups.
- Fixed an issue in the horizontal Live TV layout where channel lists were limited to 100 channels.
- Improved subscription handling and purchase reliability.
- Improved EPG loading and prefetch behavior.
- Improved Series loading for providers with non-standard season or episode data.
- Added customizable top navigation order via OK long press.
- Added genre and full release date information to movie and series previews.
- Added Search filters for Movies and Series.
- Added an option to start the app automatically after Android boot.
- Replay now supports multiple archive days.
- Replay opens real timeshift streams with proper duration.
- Replay view now includes groups and categories.
- Improved TMDB metadata loading for more accurate ratings and faster updates.
- Added a cleaner Live TV group list with folder icons removed.
- Live TV channel switching now supports Channel+ and Channel- buttons.
- Fixed background playback issues on some devices.
- Movie and Series categories can now be reordered manually.
- Fixed an issue where the EPG grid could show "No EPG" for certain channels even though program data was available.
- Added automatic detection and correction of shifted EPG timestamps from providers.
- Added Replay TV / Catch-Up support.
- Program descriptions are now shown below the program title in Live TV by default.
- Added a new option to hide ratings on posters.
- Improved EPG overlays.
- Updated localization.
- Added Replay TV / Catch-Up support.
- Program descriptions are now shown below the program title in Live TV by default.
- Added a new option to hide ratings on posters.
- Improved EPG overlays.
- Updated localization.
- Added custom EPG support for external XML/GZ source URLs.
- Adjusted EPG timeline window behavior and forward-time navigation.
- Added a Collection tab in the Details screen for related titles.
- Fixed a sticky metadata issue in the Search to Details flow.
- Fixed hidden groups showing in the right-side grid in Movies/Series vertical layout.
- Added source category tags in the Details screen for better title identification.
- Added genre metadata in the Details screen.
- Added new VOD poster size presets: Compact, Default, and Large.
- Added TMDB rating badges across Home, Discover, Movies, and Series.
- Added a new Random Picks row on Home.
- Recommended for You is smarter now and uses local watch behavior for better picks.
- Added a program description panel in Live TV overlays for quicker info without opening details.
- Added translation and quality fixes.
- Added a new Live TV Program Info overlay with program description support.
- Added a Description button in the Live TV player overlay.
- Added an option to use the OK button in fullscreen Live TV to open Program Info.
- Added subtle program separator lines in the Live TV EPG grid for clearer schedule boundaries.
- Adjusted translations.
- Fixed EPG Timeline pagination so it is no longer limited to the first 100 channels.
- Fixed the EPG Timeline channel counter.
- Added a new App Behaviour settings section.
- Added an option to show the profile selection screen on app launch.
- Added an auto-refresh setting for playlists.
- Added audio track and subtitle selection in the Live TV player.
- Added a new layout option for VOD with a vertical category menu.
- Added optional EPG info in Zapping list - vertical (no EPG) mode.
- Added time marks on the Time Header Row.
- Reorganized behavior-related settings into the new App Behaviour category.
- Fixed channel names being cut off at the bottom.
- Added Croatian language support.
- Added Arabic language support.
- Static groups Favorites and Hidden are now only visible when they contain channels.
- Changed the default sorting mode for Live TV groups.
- Added support for custom Live TV group ordering.
- Improved VOD navigation by separating options, filters, and groups.
- Reworked the Network Shares screen for WebDAV and SFTP.
- Refactored Network Shares integration in the Details screen.
- Titles in Network Shares can now be searched via the Search screen.
- Fixed focus loss on app start when no profiles were added.
- Improved TMDB title cleaning.
- Improved billing diagnostics and logging for failed purchase queries and entitlement verification.
- MoviesScreen category switching now uses local/background filtering and removes the expensive category-switch fetch path.
- Favorites can now be filtered by type, such as Movie or Series, and by profile.
- Added more performance fixes.
- Improved title cleaning.
- Reworked compressor and EQ.
- Reworked poster fetching and added fallback to TMDB.
- Reworked Favorites.
- Fixed TV shows disappearing from the Continue Watching section.
- Adjusted Settings order.
- Added Catch-Up.
- Added audio loudness normalization.
- Added a Skip Intro button with custom time setting.
- Favorites now lists items from multiple playlists.
- Home now lists items from multiple playlists in Continue Watching.
- Refactored code.
- Added a setting to start the app in Live TV instead of Home.
- Added HLS or TL preference toggles for VOD and Live TV.
- Added channel search in Live TV.
- Added cross-profile title search.
- Added a manual preferred language setting for OpenSubtitles.com.
- Added multiple translations.
- Reworked channel visibility management.
- Adjusted title matching.
- Added general bug fixes.