AerialTV - Open Beta and a big thank you.
First: thank you for your patience, support, and honest feedback over the past couple of weeks, as solo dev I’ve been humbled by how generous people have been, spending time to try the app out and provide feedback - this has directly shaped what items have worked over the last 2 weeks since the Android closed beta started.
Mostly I’ve been focused on stability, sync, and quality-of-life improvements across devices. Here’s what’s been improved:
- Better cross-device sync reliability (playlists, favorites, and continue watching)
- Faster and more reliable playlist loading/validation - better ordering and management of categories
- More customisation options eg. Reorder sections on Home Screen, choose categories as vertical or horizontal menus
- Improved coverage for Skip the Intro (lots more coming in this space)
- TV Guide improvements including better channel grouping, quick channel change, guide overlay with video playing in background
- Better error handling during provider setup and login flows
- Recording improvements (series/repeat behavior + storage handling)
- In-App Family group management across Apple & Android devices*
- Player stability improvements and Chromecast support
- LOTS of bug fixes (thanks for folks reporting those)
Pleased to announce that Android Open Beta Is now Live (so no more messing around with Google groups!) you can download from Google Play for Android TV, phones, and tablets.
If you want to join and help test:
- Play Store through browser: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.jet27labs.aerialtv
- Play Store on android device: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jet27labs.aerialtv
More details/screenshots: https://aerialtv.app/
Next up :
- Support for non Google Play devices eg. Amazon, etc
- Multiview
- Audio offset
- Much greater Skip the intro coverage
Look forward to your feedback, still no discord - please just reply here or on private chat.
Thanks again
*the in-app family sharing across Android/Apple is waiting on App Review on Apple side, so please bear with me if looking to use that (you can still achieve this if using same cloud sign-in account in both Apple & Android)