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Hoides TV · Android TV & Google TV · v0.5

A calmer home screen for your TV.

A native launcher with your installed apps, your inputs and Continue Watching on one fast screen. No ads, no web views, and Google TV is never removed.

Android TV / Google TVAndroid 8.0+Built for the remote
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Good evening.Your apps. Your next watch.
Your apps
Streamer
Live TV
Music
Photos
Settings
Continue Watching
Illustration of the Hoides TV home screen. Your own apps show their real banners.
🚫 No ads, no web views ⚡ Apps row in the first frame ↩ Restore Google TV in one step 🎛 Made for the remote
Features

Everything on your TV, one press away

Written in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose for Android TV, with real apps, real inputs and nothing invented.

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Your apps, your order

Hold OK or press Menu to favourite, reorder, hide or manage an app. Full-size TV banners, with names only where an app needs them.

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Inputs at a glance

A visual Inputs page with a card for every port and a light that shows its state, opened with the TV’s own native switching.

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Continue Watching

Shared Continue and Next entries from the official Android TV provider, after you consent. Private histories stay inside their apps, and missing progress is never faked.

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Remote-first focus

Focus is always white, the selected page always accent. Up and Down cross rows by what you see; Back always takes you somewhere sensible.

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Motion you can choose

Full motion with a spring lift and frosted glass, a gentler Reduced mode, or Off. Tuned to keep frames smooth on an everyday TV.

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Settings that survive

Preferences are kept with backup copies and rebuilt automatically if the TV loses its settings file at power-off.

Home button

Works with TVs that prefer Google TV.

Some firmware, such as TCL’s, keeps sending the Home button to Google TV even after you choose another launcher. Hoides TV offers two optional helpers for that, both off until you turn them on.

  • Home button helper: watches only for the Google TV home window and opens Hoides TV instead. It cannot read the screen or filter keys.
  • Back button helper: handles Back from Google TV’s home and its results only; every other key passes straight through, unrecorded.
  • No microphone, audio, video or network access, and the native Assistant is left alone.
  • Settings › Startup & recovery › Restore Google TV turns both off and gives Home back to Google TV.
Your choice, always

Nothing is disabled or removed.

Google TV stays installed and enabled throughout. Hoides TV never disables system packages, changes firmware, or alters picture, sound and streaming apps. Recovery also works from a PC with the included Restore-GoogleTV.ps1 script.

Install

Sideload in three steps

Turn on developer options

On the TV, enable Wireless debugging (Android 11+) or ADB debugging.

Install the APK

Use adb install, or the included Install-HoidesTV.ps1, which also installs the start-up profile so the launcher opens fast.

Open Hoides TV

Try it from the apps list first. Make it your Home only when you’re happy with it.

Requirements

What you need

TV: Android TV or Google TV Android: 8.0 or newer Install: ADB from a PC

Developed and tested on a TCL Google TV running Android 14.

Good to know
  • On firmware that prioritises Google TV, Home briefly passes through Google TV (about half a second) before Hoides TV opens.
  • Continue Watching shows only what apps share with Android TV.
FAQ

Questions

Will it remove or replace Google TV?

No. Google TV stays installed and can be your Home again at any time from Settings › Startup & recovery.

Does it block ads in streaming apps?

No. Hoides TV doesn’t change other apps. For ad and tracker domains across the TV, see Hoides Filter.

I used it when it was called NEURO TV.

Hoides TV installs as a new app beside it. Set it up, then run Install-HoidesTV.ps1 -RemoveOld (or uninstall NEURO TV from Settings › Apps) to remove the old one.

Give your TV a calmer home.

Try it alongside Google TV. Nothing changes until you decide.

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