If you have a question or feedback, head over to the Discord channel: https://discord.gg/zmNjK2S

v1.5.10 (2024.05.20)

Deep Link support added

To open a live stream: s0undtv://stream/<channel's name>, exp: s0undtv://stream/lirik
To open a VOD: s0undtv://vod/<VOD Id>, exp: s0undtv://vod/1199379108

General

'Paste token link' field is hidden by default on the 'Login (Preffered)' activity while using the Google Play version of the app. If you need it, you can turn it back on from the settings. Settings -> Device specific settings -> Show 'Paste token' field

Fix:

VOD: fixed an issue when VODs published after May 16 did not play
Search: reduced the search result count to 5, which ironically improves the "quality" the 🟪🐍's search results. 🤷‍♂️
VOD: sub-only VODs Source resolution should be available

v1.5.9 (2023.11.11)

Fix:

Slow BTTV animated emotes after a while

v1.5.8 (2023.11.04)

Settings:

Chat: new font sizes added
Chat: new emote sizes added

Fix:

7TV emotes
Peekview Audio issue (Thanks t430anc)
Stream navigation preview card don’t get hidden when controls are toggled rapidly (Thanks takoid)
Channel Follow state correctly shows
In case of a Raid the stream switches over to the target channel

v1.5.7 (2023.07.28)

Settings:

Chat: Hide deleted messages: this setting got a new option, change the removed message color to grey and italic. Your previous setting was reset to the default.

Fix:

VOD chat: Timestamp setting was not respected. (Thanks Tears!)

v1.5.6 (2023.07.27)

Stream:

Auto stream refresh: previously added feature didn't work well (as expected), so I've fixed it. Also added a few options in the settings. The app tries to reconnect 5 times, the timeout between tries is customizable, but 5 seconds is the default.

- Normal mode (default): Before the refresh, it checks if the streamer is still online. Use this if you have a good internet connection. This should handle those moments when the streamer has a small "F".
- "Aggressive" mode: It will restart the stream regardless if the streamer is online or not. Use this if you have a BAD or spotty internet connection. This also means if the stream ends normally it will still try to reconnect.

Settings:

Chat: Show Timestamp
Stream: Stream auto refresh
Stream: Keep the screen on (off by default): previously the app kept the display wake even when the stream stopped. With this setting, you can control this behavior. If it's ON, it will keep the display awake all the time (old behavior), if it's OFF, it will be controlled by your TV's display timeout / screen saver.
Stream: Stream Navigation settings have their own sub-menu, nothing new here.

Fix:

Followed channel is back. Streamer's follower count is removed, also the banner image is no longer accessible inside the Streamer's profile.

Known issues:

VOD: video quality can stuck at 480p30 for certain devices. Right now, you either set it to higher quality manually every time or set the quality to 'Source' in the VOD video quality settings.

v1.5.5 (2023.05.31)

Fix:

Source error issue.

v1.5.4 (2023.05.06)

Stream:

Auto stream refresh: if the stream stopped, but the Streamer is still online the app automatically refreshes the stream. One attempt right after the 'Stream stopped' message, and 4 more times with 3 seconds of delay between each attempt. I couldn't test it properly, because it's a bit difficult. If you're experiencing any weird behavior report to: Discord -> Forum -> "Retry on failed stream/source error"

Fix:

Various rows didn't loaded (exp.: Followed Channels), VOD chat stopped.

Blog time!

Twitch recently deployed a tool to combat bots. This broke some functionality of the app. They did this months ago, but the app was not affected by it, until now. I've managed to fix it with the cheapest and fastest solution, but I wouldn't be surprised if this "fix" will last for a few days, or weeks.

I would like to take the opportunity to remind all of you that with every day we're getting closer and closer to the point where it's not possible FIX things. I might have to cut back on features, and those won't come back. And there WILL be a time when watching Live Streams and VOD won't be possible anymore in the app. I'm not here to fearmonger, this is just a reality check, a reminder. I'm living with this fact for 2-3 years now.

But until then, have fun, and enjoy the ride!

v1.5.3 (2023.04.17)

Fix:

Fix for VODs, which I managed to break in the rush! (Thanks Ersan)

v1.5.2 (2023.04.17)

Stream:

Bottom bar: 'Send chat message' button got a long press function: It opens a QR code which will open the Official app in 'Chat Only' mode
Volume Control: volume steps changed from linear to exponential

Settings

Stream, Stream Navigation: Show the Bottom Bar when you switch between Streams (ON by default)

Fix:

Fixed live streams
Chat: slightly improved chat performance on low end devices
VOD chat: show/hide Sub/Gifted Sub message settings are correctly respected (Thanks ja_som)

v1.5.1 (2023.03.15)

Fix:

Fixed a bug that made the UI slow and laggy, also caused slow stream startup in a rare case (Thanks Ersan)
Chat: FFZ emote fix
Chat: 7TV emote fix
'Recent messages' service working again
VOD: sub-only VODs should be playable once again
Chromecast: Multiview should correctly open when long pressing on a card in the PeekView. This will work on other devices if they had a similar issue.
Chromecast: resolution didn't go beyond 480@30 in Auto quality

v1.5 (2023.01.04)

Following streamer / game is back!

... sort of
You will need to use official app to actually do the follow/unfollow
Clicking the Follow 🤍 button will open a QR code, reading it should open the official app

Notification

New notification type added: Detailed, it has the channel's name, badge image and the current stream title
Optional: "Display over other apps" permission added.
Since Android Oreo and up, Notification duration was broken due to API changes. Granting this permission will restore this feature.
On FireOS you have to grant the permission manually though ADB: 'adb shell appops set com.s0und.s0undtv SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow'
Animation Style added (only for Android Oreo and up) (permission needed). Name of the animation and the actual animation can missmatch on custom android OSs.

Stream

Low latency LITE ™ mode added: it's not on par with the official app, around 2-4sec behind.
Bottom bar: Swap Audio button renamed to Volume Control (represented with a speaker icon). From now on, you can use it all the time - previously you could only use it when the MultiView was active. Why would you want to control a stream volume when your device has it's own volume control? Let's say you want to stream music and watch a stream muted or on a lower volume.

Chat:

Full 7TV emote support
Updated "User-Type Chat Badges"

VOD:

You can open sub-only VODs regardless if you're subbed or not
Playback speed added
Vod Chapters added (tip: Long press on the button sets the playback speed to 1x)

Settings:

Stream: Show/hide incoming raid notification.

On top of this, i've added a filter that ignores the raid notification if the raid's viewer count is <= 3. This is to combat "1 viewer andy raids" spam.
Chat: Chat background opacity: you can set this in the Settings or change it with the Remote Shortcut. You can't access it from the UI, YET.
Stream: Remote shortcuts: Chat background opacity
Device specific settings: No Peekview card selection animation. When a card is selected and the inside of the card plays a video correctly, but the outer edge acts weirdly, lags behind with the playback. Amazon devices has this issue, for them it's ON by default. If you experience similar issues on your device, turn this ON.
Proxy server: Tokyo proxy server added for our 720p Korean frog frens . So they can get 1080p once again.
P.S.: only use it when you actually need it.
Stream - Buffering settings removed

Context menu

Menu button (3 horizontal lines) will open the Context Menu. LONG PRESS Back button is still an option, if you don't have a Menu button.

Standalone

Beta: a newly installed Beta version will default to the 'Beta' 'Update channel', previously it defaulted to 'Stable'.

Fix:

Login: previously the app asked for re-login even when it wasn't necessary.
Login (web): fixed, but this won't change the fact that it's still "Login (Preferred)" is the recommended way to login
Chat: raid event correctly switches over to the raid's target channel
VOD: Chat should be visible once again
Recommendation channels: empty rows will be correctly empty, instead of showing outdated cards (Thanks p0k33m0n)
Settings: Changing the theme should restart the app once again
Peekview: sometimes it stuck and stopped loading new elements (Thanks Dev8)
VOD: if the channel didn't had custom sub icons, sub messages didn't showed up in chat (Thanks alchemistfm)
VOD: Chat stopped and didn't loaded new messages on low chat activity channels in a rare case
Followed Channels: fixed a bug which caused the most recently followed channel didn't showed up in the list
Fixed the black screen when the app is resumed from the background but the streamer is offline
When a language row was opened, StreamNavigation incorrectry treated this as a Game category row, instead of a Language row. (Thanks Harlock)
Peekview: if a streamer changed the Game category during the stream, Peekrow's Game row showed the previous game instead of the newly set one.
Peekview: Top Games shows viewer count
Stream: correctly show if the Stream is offline
Channel profile: 'Past Broadcast', 'Highlights' and 'Uploaded' VOD rows load correctly in all situations
Chat:'INVALID NICK' message after first install / update
Top Games row: it can show more then 100 elements
Fixed a crash, when the user logged out and tried to log back in
Rows didn't load new items in a case when the user used extensive amount of filtering (Thanks Dev8)
Search: multi word search queries (Thanks tony67893)
Mobile: Phone notch support is back
Mobile: Auto rotate should work correctly in landscape mode

v1.4.2 (2022.06.11)

Next version with proper fixes and features is in the works.

Fix:

xQc's FFZ emote fix

v1.4.1 (2022.03.18)

Fix:

v1.4 (2022.02.27)

✅ shows the changes since RC_1

Twitch API changes:

You MUST be logged in to use the app in the future!
Following channels not working anymore. Twitch: Today, we are announcing that we will permanently shut down the Follow Channel, Unfollow Channel, Create User Follows and Delete User Follows endpoints in the Twitch API and V5 on July 27, 2021. They did this to combat "Follow bots".

Removed / changed features due to API changes:

Featured row
Global viewer / streamer counter
✅ Past Broadcast
✅ Channel Profile: previously you could see if the selected channel is hosting someone. This has been removed.

General:

New login method has been added, you can find under it the "Login (Preferred)" button on the home screen. As the name suggests this is the recommended way to login into the app from now on. With this you can login using ANY web browser on the same WIFI network, this means you can use your phone/tablet/laptop/desktop/fridge. If you're on a phone/tablet, you don't need an other device, just follow the instruction, login to twitch, copy the link, in your browser switch back to the login page, paste the link, press Submit and the app will be logged in, when you switch back to it. As a backup i've kept "Login (Web)" option, which was the old login method.
Context Menu (Long press BACK on a card): Add, Remove to/from History buttons added. You can use the 'Add to History' as a "bookmarking" tool. Let's say you browse through a row of streams, you find something interesting, but you don't want to watch it immediately. You can add it to the History, and later on it will be in the Live Stream History. Using 'Add to History' on a stream in the Live Stream History moves the stream to the front of the row.
Updated ExoPlayer to 2.15.0

Live Stream History

A new row is added to the Main screen and the Peekview, this row contains the previously opened live streams
As the name suggests, it only shows the currently live streams
Stream Navigation (Dpad LEFT/RIGHT) works with these row items, but the selected stream will be not re-added to the History

Stream:

Bottom bar: how long you're watching a stream is now visible, it's next to the Streamer's Up Time.

Context Menu:

✅ Button added to Favorite (⭐) channels
As a reminder you can open the Context Menu by LONG pressing the BACK button on any card. Pick a card, any card!💿

✅ Past Broadcast changes:

Due to API changes the PB row's behavior has changed. With the old API only one request was necessary to grab all your followed channel's new VODs. With the new, i have to make a request for each of your followed channels. So if you follow 150 channels, that would be 150 API requests. This is just dumb!
From now on, the app only gets the Past Broadcast for those channels that you Favorite (⭐). There is no limit on how many channels you can Favorite, but be sensible for the aforementioned reason.
The row will have the last 5 VODs for each streamer
I might explore an option to grab the PB for all of your followed channels, automatically update it exp.: once every day

Chat:

7TV emote support
Twitch GIF emote support added
Chatter's name is bold
New default Chat height added (Horizontal chat, 10%, 15%)
New Chat mode: Horizontal chat: Chat will be 1 chat message height, full screen width and messages are scrolling to left->right or right<-left depending on if the chat was originally on the left or the right side of the screen
Long pressing on a message will automatically opens the 'Send chat message window', with user's @Name as a mention. If the send chat window is already open, it just adds the @Name to the text field. Targeted usage: mouse or touch
'recent-messages' service added: "Normally, on Twitch chat, you can't see any messages that were sent before you joined a certain channel's chat. This service fills that gap. It continuously listens to a large number of channels - and when somebody wants to open a channel's chat, their chat client can use this service to fetch a list of recent messages."
more info: https://recent-messages.robotty.de/
It's OFF by default, you have to manually Opt-in to use this service. This is the request of the service's developer.
Highlight message support (used with Channel points)

PeekView:

CHANGE: affecting PeekView and the MultiView interaction!
From now on, selecting a stream (with single click) in PeekView will always open in the Main view, selecting a stream (with long press) will always open in the MultiView.
Previously this worked like: if no MultiView was visible, single click opened the stream in the Main view. If MultiView was visible, single click always opened the selected stream in the MultiView.
The point of this change, to unifiy the experience. Single click will always do the same thing, just like long press. Also depending on the press delay you can decide where the stream should open when the MultiView is visible.

Settings:

Remote shortcuts: DPad Left, Right and Down are now customizable.
General: Live Stream History: Clear History
General: Stream Preview: Preview quality added (720p, 480p, 360p) The setting won't be applied immediately
General: Favorites in front of Followed streams: Your 'Favorited'(⭐) channels will be in front of the Followed streams section.
General -> Filtering: Filter out rerun streams
Stream: PeekView: Preview quality added (720p, 480p, 360p)
Stream: Stream settings / VOD settings: max 480p added. Your previous setting is reseted
Chat: new Default Chat Height values (Horizontal chat, 10%, 15%)
Chat: new Default Chat Width values (400, 450, 500, Screen width). 'Screen width' can be only accessed if it set to default and the size cannot be changed in the player.
Chat: Use 'recent-messages' service added
Chat: Chatbox vertical position added
Application info: User ID added. It helps me to identify you in my logs when you report an issue on Discord

Standalone version:

Standalone version is finally released, you can find it at https://github.com/S0und/S0undTV/releases
This version has it's own Auto Update system, which you can control in the Settings -> Updates menu.
Only the standalone version has the Auto update system, Google Play version does not, due to Term of Service rules
You can switch to the Beta build any time, but to recieve updates you have to change the "Update channel" to "Beta".
Future Beta versions will be published ONLY in the standalone version

Fix:

Chat: chat didn't scrolled in a certain case after "SwapChat"
Chat: messages didn't show up with default sub icon
Chat: during a "SwapChat" the chat message was sent to the incorrect chat. It's always sent to the currently visible.
Chat: chat didn't worked on stream startup in a specific case
Chat: Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V should works properly in the chat box without affecting the UI
Chat: Swap chat: maintain swapped chat while navigating between streams on the Main view. Chat view still resets itself after closing the MultiView or swapping the Streams.
Chat: the chat view is in front of the 'Modify Chat' info screen
Chat: Chat stopped if no new messages were sent to the channel for multiple minutes
Reduced the app's memory footprint, also fixed a previously introduced memory leak
Stream: rare 'Stream stopped' state when switching back to the app while the streamer was still live
Stream: Fast Forward (⏩) won't reset your currently selected video quality settings (Thanks ntelas)
Channel/Game Filtering: incorrectly added the first element in the list (Thanks Bakin)
Stream: Search: opening a channel profile and then opening a currently live stream from the profile should work correctly
Stream/VOD: switching away from the app and relaunching it from the Android TV homescreen should correctly resume the previous Stream / VOD
✅ Shield: "Experience 9.0": opening a MultiView window should work all the time
✅ Recommendation channels: Followed or Top streamers row randomly disappeared from your Android TV's home screen

Known issues:

✅ Stream Navigation: only works for the first 100 streams and unable to switch channels "infinitely". This will be fixed in an upcoming patch.

v1.3.10 (2021.01.13)

General:

Context Menu: added a context menu for the Stream, Game and Channel cards. LONG PRESS BACK button opens it. You can quickly follow, open Channel Profile or Filter out cards.

Stream:

Search button added. On the keyboard 'K' button opens it.
'Save VOD resume position' button added. This used to be only accessable through Remote Shortcuts

Chat:

Increased the default emote size, which you can change in the settings.
Slightly changed the chat message alignment

Settings:

Chat: Change Emote size
Remote shortcut: Search
General: Filter channels, categories: you can filter out specific channels or categories. 'Filter categories' also filters out streams that "plays" those categories. This means you can wipe out those categories on the whole platform.
Stream settings / VOD settings: Default Stream video quality: two new options added, Auto (max 1080p), Auto (max 720p). The resolution can switch below these, but can't go above
Device specific settings: If MultiView or PeekView Previews are not showing AND you don't see an error message in the view, this might help. It's ON by default on Amazon and Philips devices. If you have this issue and this fix solves it and your device manufacturer is something else, please contact me, so i can add it.
Device specific settings: Moved "Peekview Previews Compatibility mode" into this category. If the previous fix helps, you might need this.

"Mobile support":

Added touch controls to the Player, so you can access the majority of the features
Double tap: opens the bottom bar
Long press: send a BACK key event
In the Peekview: to scroll Up/Down you have to select a card, and do the Up/Down gesture but NOT on the Peekview itself, but above it. So for these gesture don't touch the Peekview itself.
Longpress Up/Down/Left/Right doesn't work
Optimized the player size for custom resolutions and notches
I've preapplied a few settings specifically for touch support
Main screen is still designed for TVs, so touch navigation is cumbersome.

Fix:

Fix for "Stream stopped" issue. Btw nice timing Twitch, or should i say, pretty PogChamp?
Multiview and Peekview preview fix for Amazon and Philips devices
Chat: Open keyboard with the Chat window: this setting works with Gboard, so if it's OFF, Gboard won't open.
VOD Auto hide: did not worked since 2021
Multiview's chat did not start after switching back to the app

Standalone version:

I will release a new version of app for those who don't have access to Google Play Store
The only difference is that version will have it's own Auto Update system, similar how SmartTubeNext works
The Google Play Store version cannot contain any 3rd party auto update system (it's against the TOS), so it has to be a separate variant
It will be avaiable on Discord or at www.github.com/S0und/S0undTV/releases
For Aptoide users: i will upload the standalone version there, and from now on that's how the app will be updated.

v1.3.9 (2020.12.06)

Stream:

"Precise" chat height and width modification: activating the "Change chat size and position" button and with CENTER button you can toggle to the "Precise" mode. DPAD Left/Right/Up/Down to modify the chat. BACK to close this window.
Volume Control for Multiview: Swap Audio on the UI has been replaced by Volume Control of MultiView. If MV is active, you can open a UI to control both stream's volume. LONG press DPAD_DOWN still just swaps the audio. A separete Remote Shortcut is added for the new Volume Control UI.

Settings:

Chat: Default Chat width
Stream: Press BACK twice to close the Stream: since this feature was really popular , it's a setting now, and it's OFF by default
Remote Shortcuts: Volume Control for MultiView
Miscellaneous: Skip Tutorial: the tutorial can cause issues on some devices / configurations

Fix:

Mibox: the audio sync actually works this time
Stream: after a resolution drop the player didn't swiched back to a higher resolution
Recommendation channels: should update more reliably
Fixed a crash during VOD playback

v1.3.8 (2020.11.25)

General:

Dark grey is the default theme color, for new users
Game card size slightly reduced (by 10%) on the Main screen
Updated ExoPlayer to 2.12.1
Previously added Turbo login was removed, due to API changes, i need time to figure out a way to use it again. Because of this, i logged you out if use used Turbo.

Stream

*NEW*: MultiWatch: a new mode to watch two streams at the same time, with both stream's chat visible on the sides. If you have multiview active, the VideoSize button turn into this icon You can activate this mode either with this icon, or the VideoSize remote shortcut. In the next update i will a add better stream volume control.
Stream navigation preview cards: switching between streams with DPAD_LEFT / RIGHT the previous and the next stream's preview card is shown. This way you can see what will be the next stream, if you are keep switching.
Stream navigation: it works with the Multiview as well. To activate it, Long press DPAD_LEFT / DPAD_RIGHT or CHANNEL_UP / CHANNEL_DOWN
Stream navigation: flipped CHANNEL_UP and CHANNEL_DOWN remote button functionality. CHANNEL_UP goes "left side" (higher viewer count), CHANNEL_DOWN goes the "right side" (lower viewer count)
Show/Hide Chat button: it gains a new ability if the Multiview is active. Long pressing the button, you can toggle between the two chats. There is a new remote shortcut for this.
Multiview: if you switch multiview to full screen (DPAD_DOWN while the multiview is active), bottom bar will show the correct stream information, chat.

Chat

Switched chat from IRC to WebSockets. Chat is more "responsive" now (turns out there is difference between the two). If you had trouble seeing chat in the past, this should solve this. If you see an Authentication error in chat, you have to re-login.
Multiview also joins chat.
Channel mode is visible in chat or in the send chat message window
Animated GIF library is replaced, if you had issues with the GIF emotes in the past and turned that option off, turn it back on.

Settings

Device specific settings: this new menu will contain the device specific fixes
Device specific settings: Mibox: this fix applies to MIBOX3 and MIBOX4 automatically. These devices have an issue, when a non standard resolution (exp. 900p) is being played, the audio goes out of sync. This fix removes the non standard resolutions from Auto quality, so the player can't select non-standard resolution, so the audio won't go out of sync. Someone mentioned it on Discord that Android 9 OS update will fix this. If that happens you can turn this off.
General -> Stream language row: Make the Language row the first row inside Game category. PeekView also follows this setting.
Remote shortcuts: Swap chats added
Remote shortcuts: Play/Pause added
Remote shortcuts: Menu button added. Tip: On the NVIDIA Shield you can Customize the Menu button. Personally i've changed it to short: "Menu" command, long: "Long press Menu", double press: Open Settings. You need to be on the lastest Shield update!
Stream: Show stream navigation preview cards
Stream: Show stream navigation cards for Multi view
Stream: Show Preview cards when you open the Bottom bar
Stream: Show the thumbnail part of the preview card
Stream: Viewbot / embeded stream detector. This is for fun, don't keep it on, because it slows down the BottomBar

Fix:

Followed Game section is working again
Multiple Twitch API change related issues
Recommendation channels shows the correct preview image (Thanks Jman100) This was fixed in a previous version
FireTV: fixed "Stream stopped" issue when you tried to watch specific type of games. Exp.: Pokémon, TrackMania2, new SpongeBob (Thanks Dev8 and SalmonMax)
VOD past broadcast didn't loaded more then a 100 streams (Thanks Athey)
App won't restart if you turn on or off your Bluetooth keyboard
Chat: replaced the gif emote library. This should fix that rare bug, when multiple gif emotes were played on the same emote
Tutorial crashed when the system language is set to a "right to left" language like Arabic. In this case i had to disable the tutorial, this is a framework issue. The tutorial still works with LtR languages. (Thanks Nomad)
Fire TV: Search is working now
Stream Category: ability to follow a game has been removed.

v1.3.7.4 (2020.11.06)

New login option: login with Turbo, check the 30days option. You might have to relog every 30 days. Please, only use this option if you actually have a Turbo subscription. You're not ticking anyone.
My final attempt to "fix" ads, and i would be surprised if this will last for long. We are running out of options, you have to seriously consider Turbo if you want an ad-free experience. I'm not kidding.
The way i see it, the TV user base is a bit different from the average twitch user. You either lucky and your parents got you a tv, or you are an adult who probably can pay for a subscription service.
Don't get me wrong, i don't want to tell you how you should spend your money, but this "cat and mouse" game lasted this long, because the cat allowed it. No app or script blocked ads in the past. Twitch simply left loopholes open and we used those.

v1.3.7.3 (2020.11.04)

Changed when the remote settings are loaded. I also load them when you get back to the Main screen.

v1.3.7.2 (2020.10.28)

Fixed the ad issue. This won't work, if you are blocking github host with firewall or Pi-hole.

v1.3.7.1 (2020.10.01)

Fixed the ad issue
New beta soon

v1.3.7 (2020.05.24)

Switching between channels

Using the DPAD LEFT or RIGHT button (and PROG/Channel UP/Down if you have those on your remote) while watching a stream will switch between channels
You can switch between streams that are in the same Category. If you opened A streamer from your Followed row, you will switch between your Followed streamers. But if you open the same streamer from exp.: Minecraft, you will switch between other Minecraft streamers.
Works with every category, except with Featured streams, because most of those streams are randomized.
One thing to note, that i don't maintain an internal list for every given category like i do, while you browse a row in the Peekview or on the Main screen. Everything is up-to-date. Which means, while you are switching between channels, you can run into the same channel multiple times as they lose viewers (exp. after getting hosted by someone).

Chat

Show GIF emotes, this can be turned off in the Settings
Moderated messages will be removed, this can be turned off in the Settings
Support for modified twitch emotes

General

Themes: 2 new themes are added, Dark grey and Night mode ("AMOLED")
Accent colors: for ONLY these two themes, you can choose a accent color
User profile added to the Settings row

Settings

General: Accent colors
Chat: Show GIF emotes (ON by default)
Chat: Hide deleted messages (ON by default)
General: Stream Preview -> Compatibility mode: If you see a black frame when entering and leaving a card while the Preview is on, this option eliminates that glitch. You're trading video resolution for smooth animation. App restart required! Since overall this provides a better experience it's ON by default.

Channel profile

If the channel hosts someone, you can open the target stream
The normal "offline" button takes you to "offline chat"

Fix

VOD: change video quality won't restart the VOD
Stream: after hosting, the hosted channel's uptime wasn't correct
Stream: BottomBar: due to API changes, channel follow status was incorrect. Even if you followed the channel, it showed that you didn't.

v1.3.6 (2020.04.28)

Home screen channels

3 channels are supported, Followed, Featured, Top streams (this is active by default).
I only update these channels when you actually activate them, so the first time don't freak out if they are empty. You can either wait for the next update or close the app for a "forced update".
Added a new setting to General. It's ON by default. Opening a stream from the home screen and pressing Back button will bring you into the app. Turning it off, the Back will land you on the home screen.

VOD history

VOD settings: *NEW* Remove watched VODs from the VOD history
VOD settings: *NEW* Clear VOD history
VOD settings: *NEW* Auto hide VOD history row if the last accessed VOD in it is older then X days
Long pressing a VOD history card will removes it from the VOD history

Tutorial

Added a tutorial for the first time users.

Settings

All VOD related settings has a separate menu.
Miscellaneous: *NEW* Show tutorial again
General: Back button behavior for Channels

Stream

Bottom bar: 'Fast forward' and 'Follow channel' buttons are swapped.
Bottom bar: *NEW* mute/unmute Peekview Previews

Channel profile

Added the Channel's current title. Some streamers use the title as announcement for they next stream.

Chat

"Ban support": for you were a naugthy boy or girl, i've added support for banned chat. If you are banned on a channel, you can no longer see the chat. In that case the app will announce this in the chat and reconnects like you are "not logged in". So you can see the chat, but can't write.
Be careful with the M DS!

v1.3.5 (2020.04.14)

Alternative login

I forgot to mention that when you read the QR code, in Chrome request the Desktop Site, because by default it will redirect you to the mobile site, and you can't login.
I added this information to the instructions

Peekview

Changed the card layout, it's two rows now with the channel badge icon. It looks similar to the main screen cards.

v1.3.4.1 (2020.04.05)

Alternative login

Added a new login method, which should work in every case. If you couldn't login in with the original way you should try this one.
In the future i will add a similar but less cumbersome login method, which will be the default
If for whatever reason the twitch mobile app opens right after you opened the link, try to get the link with a separate QR code reader app and manually paste it into Chrome.

Fix:

Language row: recently Language row contained all the streams instead of just the selected language
Stream: fixed the Chat resize and Multiview interraction
Stream: Peekview is in front of the Multiview
VOD: fixed a Chat visibility and VOD seek interraction
VOD: player control buttons visibility improved, theme colored
Various other fixes

v1.3.4 (2020.02.28)

Stream preview

With this new version i introduce a pretty cool feature called 'Stream preview'. Selecting any live stream card on the UI will start to playback the stream on that card itself.
The feature works both on the Main/Category/Search UI and the Peek view.
Preview video played at 720@60 max.
Some bad news. If multiview never worked for you previously, previews will not work either. I can't help you with this, i'm sorry, this is beyond my pay grade. It's a hardware limitation or a compatibility issue with ExoPlayer. My 2019 Shield is able to playback a stream, a multiview and the preview simultaneously without any issue. Meanwhile my X900F Bravia can only playback two streams, it's either the preview or the multiview. I'm aware that some lower end devices can only playback one stream. If you can only use 2 simultaneously streams, turn on 'Compatibility mode'.

VOD History

Added a new row on the Main screen, this holds your recently accessed VODs
This is a new system, VODs will only show up after this patch
The feature is separate from Twitch's 'Continue watching' section
VOD info is locally cached, this means the streamer can delete they VOD, but the deleted VOD will show up in the row.
The feature works with remote shortcut: 'Save stream position for VODs', but it will show incorrect information until you open the final, finished VOD

Settings

General: 'Show Stream preview' (ON by default)
General: 'Preview audio for Main/Category/Search', also there is a dedicated button for the same setting in the Main can Category view
Stream -> Peekview: 'Show Stream preview' (ON by default)
Stream -> Peekview: 'Play audio for the preview' (OFF by default) The main view's audio is reduced to 25% while the preview is playing
Stream -> Peekview: 'Compatibility mode' (OFF by default)
Added a couple of new icons for various settings.

Peekview:

If 'Stream preview' is ON, the selected card is bigger (from 117% to 150%) so you can see the preview better.
The selected card stays in the middle while scrolling
If you experience any issue with the Previews, i recommend you to turn this feature off.

Search

Previews added to Stream cards

General

Main UI's cards are redesigned.

Channel profile

Added a 'Live status' button, this has the default focus, which means you won't accidentally unfollow someone
It shows the currently opened channel's live status (live/offline). You can open the stream directly, if it's live.
Tweaked the colors, button's text/selection should be nice in most cases

Stream:

The stream loads noticeably faster (this includes multiview as well)
If the Video quality is set to Auto (that's the default), the video's FPS will be shown next to the resolution.

VOD:

RIGHT and LEFT buttons will seek forward/backwards +/- 10 seconds (VLC style).

Remote shortcut

NEW: Change chat background color. In the future i will add this to the UI, bundled with the ability to change chat width.
Off topic on chat background color: If you don't have an OLED tv, i highly recommend you to use the Grey chat background in side-by-side mode (Settings-> Chat-> Chat background color in full screen). You can test this out, but in my experience using the black chat background reduces the color dynamics of the video. Mainly killing the dark/shadowy areas.

Fix:

VOD: you can move up and down between the seek bar and the media control buttons. Previously it was a 'one way street'.
In the previous patch i mentioned that both reruns and live streams appeared 'live' in the followed section. Since then Twitch fixed they API, so everything should show up correctly.
Half fix for 'Follow Categories'. Twitch removed the API that i used to follow/unfollow categories. Found a newer one, but... you can only follow categories, but can't unfollow. Better then nothing, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
VOD Chat: Filter user / word didn't worked (Thanks SalmonMax!)
Channel profile: didn't load the VODs in a rare situation
Past broadcast row won't show duplicates
Chat message parsing issue
Chat didn't worked if you watched a streamer who's name had "asian characters" in it.

Known fact:

Only the VOD history has the new VOD card with progressbar and that's fine

P.S.: If you have trouble with login, make sure your 'Android System WebView' is up to date.

v1.3.3.1 (2020.02.22)

Fix:

Login issue
Peekview wasn't showing
If the default Stream Video Quality was set the 'Source' the playback didn't worked, and Video Quality constained a lot of "nonsense".

v1.3.3 (2020.01.23)

Chat:

Support for /me command. This is the command that turns your message equal to your user name color.

Fix:

VOD chat: improved message update rate
Peekview: card selection misbehaved when you reached the end of the row
Followed streams are ordered by viewer count in a descending order. The out of order issue was because Twitch changed the api, for no good reason.
Stream: Speed up BottomBar animation to 125ms (from 250ms)

Known issues:

Can't distinguish 'live' streams from 'reruns' anymore in the Followed section, this is due to the previously mentioned API change. So 'reruns' appears as 'live' streams.

v1.3.2 (2020.01.01)

VOD Chat

Everything that you can do in Live stream view is possible in the VOD view, including Chat / Multiview modifications, Peekview, ect. But keep in mind that this view is mainly for VODs, so even tho you can open streams from the Peekview, don't be surprised that you won't see the live chat. In the future i will unify the VOD and Live stream experience.
In the VOD view can open the PeekView by LONG PRESSING the DPAD_UP
Previously you were able to control the VOD player with Play/FF/RW buttons on your remote. This has been removed, since these buttons are reserved for the Remote Shortcuts, and there is no remote shortcut for this playback functionality. You have to use the UI video controls.

Chat:

The message that @mentions you will be highlighted.

Remote Shortcut

*NEW*: open Stream in an External Player. So you can open the stream in a pop-up player for example: Best Video Popup Player. You need to sideload it, but don't even try with without an airmouse or Shield's Remote App. The advantage of this over the framework supported PIP is that these apps are resizable and movable. None of these are possible with the Android TV framework's PIP. You need to enable a special permission to make this work. Shield: Settings -> Apps -> Special app access -> Display over other apps
*NEW*: save the currently watched LIVE stream's position as a VOD Resume point, so you can continue watching the VOD from this, saved position.
*NEW*: pause chat. Keep in mind that messages between paused and the resumed state will be lost.

General:

Search: Channel results are ordered by they follower count in descending order

Fix:

Updated BTTV emote api, which caused messages not showing / missing emotes.
Settings didn't closed on a single BACK action
Chat: 'Video + side by side' and 'Show chat' settings should work as expected. Which means that using 'Show Chat button' should put the view into side-by-side mode and vice versa.

v1.3.1 (2019.12.22)

Settings:

Stream: *NEW* Remote shortcuts: you can customize the Play, Fast Forward and Previous remote buttons
Stream: Show the online viewer and streamer count (ON by default). It's the same thing just like on the Main screen

Stream:

Changed the Control Buttons colors, it follows your currently active theme color

Fix:

Long press refresh inside Categories works again (thx LAM09)
Followed streams and categories were missing from Peekview when you resumed the app from the background in a certain case (thx kurtdh)

v1.3.0 (2019.12.17)

PeekView 2.0

It has multiple rows now. Everything that you can access on the Main screen you can access in PV, except Channel profiles, Past Broadcasts and the Settings row
The rows visibility obeys your settings in General -> 'Show/hide rows on Main screen' and 'Stream language row'. So if you hid something on the Main screen, that row won't show up in PV.
By default the topmost row shows the same category that you are already watching. So if your currently viewed streamer plays Apex, this row will show every Apex streamer.
If a row is empty (exp. non of your followed steamer are streaming currently), the row indicator temporarily turns red and the row is skipped.

Stream:

Video quality: the menu got revamped. Changing quality should be much easier now.
Chat size and position buttons are merged into one. Remote shortcut: Rewind/Prev
Multiview size and position button added. Remote shortcut: Forward/Next
Both of these edit modes can be closed by the BACK, DPAD_CENTER buttons, or toggle it with the remote shortcut
New icon for LIVE and RERUN on the Peekview card
I've changed the Play/Pause shortcut: short press -> Video+Chat side-by-side mode, long press -> Chat show/hide
Tooltips on Control buttons, you can turn this off in the Settings -> Stream

Chat:

Added Partner, Prime, VIP and Broadcaster icons. You can hide the Prime icon in Settings -> Chat.

Settings:

Chat: font size (this also scales emotes and chat window width)
Chat: new window sizes from 50,100% to 25,33,50,66,75,100%
Chat: new window positions
Stream: Multiview position
Stream: Multiview size
Stream: Video + chat side by side scale mode: Fit to screen or Center crop
Stream: *NEW* Clock settings. You see the current time and date during a stream, by turn on the control buttons. You can also turn on 3 customizable "World Clock".
Stream: Show tooltips on control buttons (ON by default)
"Tree icon" removed, and replaced with an audio swap button. If you have a Multiview open you can swap between the two video's audio. Either with this button or long pressing your DPAD Down button.

General:

Main screen: remote shortcuts: Play/Pause button: Refresh, Rewind button: open Settings
Changing a theme will automatically restarts the app. The app should restart in a couple of seconds with your selected theme.
Exoplayer updated to 2.10.8
Added Google Firebase Crashlytics, Analytics, Performance. These are for more detailed crash reports, app usage and performance numbers. With these information i can improve the app reliability and performance in the future.
Project updated to AndroidX
Lowered a couple of unnecessarily long UI animations
Added a reminder to the Main screen when a new app version is released

Fix:

Watching a stream then going back to the OS home screen, and then launching the app again with it's icon, should resume the stream, instead of landing on app's Main screen.
Fixed a crash which occurred in the Settings
Show the correct uptime in hours and minutes if the stream is up for more then 24h (thanks LAM09)
Empty rows are removed on the Main screen, so if no followed stream is live, the row is hidden
'Video + chat side by side by default' and 'Auto show chat on playback' works as expected. Keep in mind that side-by-side mode has 3 states: Normal, Fit to screen, Center crop. If 'Auto show chat on playback' is OFF, side-by-side's default state will be in Normal mode. So if you press 'Show Chat' in this state, nothing will happen. You have to enter side-by-side mode first (fit to scren / center crop), then 'Show chat' will behave as expected.
Channel profile: Past broadcast row has the correct profile color
NVIDIA Shield's menu or Sony Bravia's Action Menu won't pause the stream anymore.

Known issues:

Twitch changed they APIs and you are unable to follow/unfollow categories. There is a possible way to circumvent this, so i might be able to fix it in the future

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

v1.2.5 (2019.11.14)

If you are using any other 3rd party Twitch apps you might noticed that, all the sudden they have a lot of issues. We don't really know the actual reason behind this. Maybe Twitch is changing the APIs or the servers are having performance issues. Some APIs are working correctly then a day later we can't access them anymore, few hours later it's fine again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Whatever is going on at Twitch, i'm hoping that it will be solved soon, and that "solution" won't affect us in any negative way. Twitch is using it's own APIs, meanwhile we - the plebs - are using APIs for 3rd party developers. This is why the official Twitch products are working correctly while our apps are failing.

VOD:

Fast forward / rewind button steps: using the bottom video search bar you can skip through the VOD in 20 steps (5% per step). This is the default. But using the FF or Rewind buttons, from now on, you can move much slower in 200 steps (0,5% per step). In the future i will provide a proper -/+ 30sec or 1 minute buttons for more precision. So use the search bar for quick movement, and then use the buttons for fine steps.

Chat:

Show/hide with Play, Play/Pause buttons
Change size with Rewind, Media Previous buttons
Change position with Forward, Media Next buttons

Fix:

Chat: Previously rectangular emotes were incorrectly scaled, this is fixed.
VOD: It's working again, but you can't access Sub-only VODs. That's the only way to fix it currently.
Followed Games row loads again, for a while...

v1.2.4 (2019.08.04)

Fix:

Multiview: swapping audio should work now
MultiView: removed a "black out" animation during view swap, on a slower device you might see some graphical artifact during the swap.
Fixed Notifications on Pie

MultiView:

DPad_DOWN short press: swap between the views
DPad_DOWN long press: swap the audio between the views

v1.2.3 (2019.07.31)

Fix:

Video playback works with Pie now. Previously when you opened a stream, the stream was "offline".
Fixed a lot of memory leaks. "Stats for Nerds" is the only thing that leaks memory, i'm waiting for the library's maintainer to fix it.

General:

Google Assistant: you can open the app with voice command, like 'open/start Sound TV'
Stream should start in 1080p immediately, instead of 720p and switching up to 1080p right after it

Stream:

Video size button has 3 states now: Normal, Shrink the view and keep the aspect ratio and Crop Zoom. This will cut off the sides of the video, but keeps the video height full screen.

Known issues:

In the Channel profiles, video cards has the default theme color, instead of using the profile's color
Chat stops working for no reason. This affects the Shield and FireTV users, which is odd, because it works fine on Bravia or on the MiBox. I'm working on this.

This patch was in the works for a while now, and this quick Pie release for the Shield got me pants down, so i had to release. But this patch also has some sneak peek for the future. I don't do any "serious" development right now, i will start doing that ~mid-late September, but i included something in this build.

Early preview:

Multi view:

Opening the Peekview and long pressing on a card, the MultiView will open, with the selected stream.
With Dpad Down, you can swap between the two opened streams.
Bob Ross mode is repurposed. With this you can swap the audio between the two stream. I will remove the Bob Ross mode in the future, because it's pointless now.
When Multiview is active, opening anything in the Peekview will open it in the Multiview
You can close the Multiview by long pressing on a card again, or pressing the Back button.
Right now the Multiview is in Auto quality, and you can't change it.
There is no Chat for the Multiview, but in the future there will be.
There will be an audio only mode, so Multiview will be audio only, and you can watch something on the main, and listen to someone else.
You might experience issues with this, because it's in early development. If your device is dropping a lot of frames (both streams are slow), this might due to it being underpowered. So i only expect this feature to work with 2017+ Bravias, Shield and with the Mibox. It didn't even worked with the FireTV.

v1.2.2 (2019.04.14)

Stream:

Finally i managed to fix the main reason why the app never performed as good as the original app in terms of data loading / buffering. This also means that the previous update's buffering settings are unnecessary. Although i won't remove the ability to change the these settings, if you need them for some reason. But meanwhile i resetted your settings if you did setup something custom.
This fix should solve your (micro)buffering issues if you had any.

Settings

Miscellaneous: Turn on stats on stream start

v1.2.1 (2019.04.08)

Chat:

You can see the chat even if you're not logged in, but you can't send messages

Stream:

Settings: 'Buffering settings' You can change the buffering settings if you have problem with playback. If that's the case, increase 'BUFFER_FOR_PLAYBACK_MS' and 'BUFFER_FOR_PLAYBACK_AFTER_REBUFFER_MS'.

Fix:

Chat: missing subicons
Game artworks: since some games change they artwork seasonally (exp.: Fortnite, Overwatch), the app didn't updated these artworks immediately, sometimes it took a week or more. From now on, the app redownloads them once every day.
Vod playback: Auto quality should be more reliable, instead of constantly switching resolutions.

On ads:

If you are in the US, you might noticed the ads pre-stream or mid stream. This is because Twitch is testing it's SureStream tech, which embeds ads INTO the video stream. From my brief research, i could do something about it, but i won't. The main reason is quite simple, i would brake Twitch TOS. Which i'm already doing, by getting the direct HLS stream, instead of using they Javascript player (which would be a ton of fun for dual core Bravia users ). So i would draw the line here.
If you want to avoid ads, i would suggest:

Twitch Nitro ($8.99 / month): Ad-Free Viewing (with limited exceptions)
Use a VPN service. You don't even have to target EU servers, maybe a server in the next state will be sufficient. I wont name the VPN provider, but from my testing i only got ads on they 'US East' server, meanwhile DC, NY, Florida, LA, etc were all "clean". Also with VPN apps, you can use per-app settings. So you don't have to force all your traffic through the VPN, you can set it only for my app.

v1.2 (2019.02.25)

General:

Fixed a bug that "silently" crashed the app. You should feel a significant smoothness in scrolling on a row or between rows, exp.: on the Main screen
Moved most of the API loadings to Ion, this speeds up loading/reload times
ExoPlayer (2.9.5)
Setting: Auto refresh (explained in the Settings, ON by default and 20min)
Setting: UI Themes (red, blue, purple, green, pink, orange, yellow, grey)

Chat:

Improved Chat startup time
Significantly improved Emote loading times. This puts the app on par with the desktop experience. It's able to keep up even with xQc's "quality chat".
Setting: Show/hide Gifted subs messages in the chat (ON by default)
Improved readability of sub and gifted sub messages
FFZ channel enabled emotes are activated
Setting: Open soft keyboard when the send Chat message window is opened from the UI (ON by default). If you open the chat window with the keyboard shortcut (J or F) this will not affect you, even when the setting is ON.
Setting: Filter out popular bots and they command from chat
Setting: Filter 'chat bots' by name (OFF by default)
Setting: Join Chat (ON by default)
Setting: Chat delay (no delay by default)
Updated the ASCII dick filter with new characters (yes, there is such thing)

Notification: (NEW)

You get a notification when your followed streamer went live. This works even when the app is in the background.
The check runs every minute.

Stream:

PeekRow: (NEW)

With the DPAD_UP button on your remote, you can open a row of cards on the bottom of the screen while watching a stream. The row contains the Main screen's "Followed" row, so you can switch between your Followed online streams without going back to the Main screen.
Few settings added under Stream -> PeekRow

General:

Hosting is now supported, so if your current streamer starts to host someone else, the app automatically redirects to the hosted streamer.
Better playback error feedback, this is true for VOD as well.
Stat for nerds button: if you turned on the feature, you can open it now from the UI.
Settings: set default VOD video quality, Auto or Source (Default is Auto)

Fix:

Followed channels and games limit 25->100
Follower count formatting
If you are subbed to a channel, but you still can't access the sub-only VODs, a logout+login should fix that. In the near future i will fix this.
Fixed an issue that caused lower fps(<30fps) in the Stream Category while scrolling on Oreo
Fixed an issue when opening a Channel profile, colors didn't loaded in a certain situation
Fixed an issue when you couldn't see chat, because you had special characters in your name
Fixed a unresponsive UI bug on Oreo. Previously, after a while, the Main screen did not reacted to 'Refresh' and when you tried to watch something the Stream/VOD didn't loaded.

Etc:

Removed Card caching setting, because it's not necessary anymore.
Notification on the Main screen if you received a new app version.

v1.1.1 (2018.10.24)

General:

Removed an unused library

Stream:

BottomBar: Save stream's position as a VOD resume point. This used to be only a remote shortcut function, but now you have a direct access to it on the UI.

Settings:

Chat: Show/hide Subscription messages in the chat
Chat: Set Chat background color in fullscreen (video, chat side-by-side or BobRoss mode)
Chat: Filter messages by user or word (personally i filter out StreamElements and Nightbot)
Stream: Show or Hide control buttons on stream startup.

v1.1 (2018.10.20)

General:

Exoplayer 2.9.0
targetSdkVersion 28
Replaced Picasso with Glide (~faster image loading)
Changelog implemented
Privacy Policy added
About: added Bottom bar icon descriptions

Major features:

VOD playback with Resume. Resume position is visible on the VOD Card.
User/Channel profiles: You can access Highlights, Past broadcasts and Uploads in the Channel Profile.
Follow and Favorite channel in the Channel profile
'Past broadcasts' and 'Followed Channels' are accessible on the Main screen.
Search (Stream, Channel, Game). To have Voice Search, you have to grant RECORD_AUDIO permission.

UI:

Streamer uptime on Cards and on the Stream bottom bar.
Visual tweak in Stream category (blurred + dimmed background)
Auto refresh on app switch (Main screen and Game category)
Long press to Refresh on any Card, except Followed Channels and Settings
Long press on Followed Channels to favorite them. By favoriting a channel, makes it appear in front of the list, for easy access.
Thumbnails should show a much more recent image on Stream cards. If you turned Off Thumbnail caching (Settings->Miscellaneous) previously, you can turn it back ON.

Stream:

Improved stream startup time
Chat: send chat message. You can open the message window by the the icon, 'J' or 'F' keys. To close it: BACK, ESC or ENTER in an empty message window.
Channel profile icon added
3 seconds delay on chat

Settings:

General settings: moved few settings into this sub category
General settings: Change Video card size (normal by default)
General settings: Hide any row on the Main screen
Stream settings: Video + Chat side by side (off by default)