Android TV Support and addition to TV Play Store?

[Pentaphon]

I'd like to be able to use this player on my Android TV device and for it to be on the Android TV Play Store. Can you add support for using this player on Android TV devices with full remote control support?

[darkj2k]

Same request.

[Learner00100]

@anilbeesetti yes much need one

[markg85]

Same request!
I suspect it's easy to enable usage on android/google tv, that's just a few manifest changes. But making it work with remote control input might require some more work.

[markg85]

Just wanted to notify you folks of this.
I just tried installing NextPlayer on a chromecast. It's a bit tricky but here's how to do it:

1. Make sure you're a developer in chromecast (for help, an article by tapping the os build version ~10x rapidly.
2. Connect to your chromecast using ADB over wifi (must be on the same network). You essentially connect to your chromecast using adb connect <ip>:5555 (yes, the 5555 port), when you make this connection the first time you have to authenticate it in the popup that appears on the chromecast

And now you can do a streaming sideload of the NextPlayer apk using a command like: adb -s <chromecast ip>:5555 install <apk file>

If you got this far, you have the app installed.
But you won't find it in the main android gui because the flags for chromecast aren't enabled in this APK. You can still start it, but you have to navigate to your system apps menu. Browse all apps and there you'll find NextPlayer. Click it and it gives you a menu of options to choose from, including open.

That's all there is to it, not that complex right? ;)
It works surprisingly well!

[Pentaphon]

@anilbeesetti this should be labeled as a feature, not a bug

[wyjek]

I would love to see Android TV support too.

For anyone wondering - it is possible to sideload it, but the interface is unusable by a remote, you need to connect a physical mouse and keyboard or use an app like Zank Remote.

Chromecast support would be great too.

[Pentaphon]

For anyone wondering - it is possible to sideload it, but the interface is unusable by a remote, you need to connect a physical mouse and keyboard or use an app like Zank Remote.

Yes. We need Next Player to work as an external player on TV devices. This is easily the top requested feature next to background playback.

[anilbeesetti]

I will try to prioritize this in the upcoming releases

[serrq]

Android TV support yeah!

[long76]

I will try to prioritize this in the upcoming releases

you can apply #1196 for now and mark ATV support like experimental?

[long76]

0.12.3 with my fix. universal apk inside.
nextplayer-v0.12.3-universal-ATV.zip
if you don't trust me:
install JDK 11, download apktool, build-tools 33.0.3 android

java -jar apktool_2.10.0.jar d nextplayer-v0.12.3-universal.apk
edit AndroidManifest.xml like in MR
java -jar apktool_2.10.0.jar b nextplayer-v0.12.3-universal
now we need sign apk
keytool -genkey -v -keystore my.keystore -keyalg RSA -keysize 4096 -validity 10000 -alias app
.\Android\sdk\build-tools\33.0.2\zipalign.exe -p 4 .\nextplayer-v0.12.3-universal\dist\nextplayer-v0.12.3-universal.apk nextplayer-aligned.apk
.\Android\sdk\build-tools\33.0.2\apksigner.bat sign --ks-key-alias app --ks .\my.keystore .\nextplayer-aligned.apk

and that's all)

P.S. happy new year and holidays)