This is a Android TV Twitch client design to give you full access to all Twitch content plus a variate of features not available on official Twitch app on a Android TV device.
Most notable features:
Multiple modes to watch streams (see the demonstration video on playstore):
1. A single live stream nothing more
2. A single live stream plus a floating chat window above the player that can be resized and place anywhere on the screen
3. A single live stream plus a chat on a side by side mode
4. Two live stream in picture picture mode the small screen can be resized and place anywhere on the screen
5. Two live stream in picture picture mode same as before plus a floating chat window above the player that can be resized and place anywhere on the screen
6. Two live stream in 50/50 mode and two full sized chat with noting above it others
7. 4 way live Multistream all screen same size without overlapping
8. 4 way live Multistream same as before plus a floating chat window above the player that can be resized and place anywhere on the screen
9. 4 way live Multistream, with a bigger main window on it's side a chat window, the user can change by left/right click with will be the bigger window
- Complete user interface design for TV devices that only have a D-Pad as main remote control
- Ads limiting tool, streams will not start only after showing ads, you will not be flooded with ads using this
- Fully customizable player experience, easy accessible player controls and status (lowlatency, quality/resolution, speed, several chat display options, network health, skipped frames, channel content, game content, follow/unfollow button, etc...)
- Past broadcast/Highlights (VOD) with chat
- Clips with chat
- BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ emotes support
- Search (Live, Channel, Games)
- Custom settings for content load filters for it page (Language, Period and others types of Twitch content filters)
- Access to user fallow
- User followed Live streamers, hosts, games, Past broadcast/Highlights (VOD), channels
- User history for live, VOD and clips
- Add as many different users as you wanna
- Easy way to switch between users, in settings you can set for the app to start direct on the user select screen
- Support for All Android TV running android 5.0 (Lollipop) and up
- Small APK (less than 1MB in average) allowing the installation on devices with a very limited storage
- Small Data storage use (average 30MB) with a auto storage cleaning tool, no need for the user worry about data storage use, the app will self clean it's data, because it most only uses cache data the system will if needed automatic clean this app cache data without removing important userdata, so this app will not be the fault for yours storage be full
- And many more features not listed
* After install, check app settings and controls to understand better how to use and setup the app
For the best performance is recommended to have installed on yours device the latest version of "Android System WebView app" install it from play using bellow link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview
Phone and tablet aren't fully supported because of that you can't install this from play on those device, but is possible to use the below link and use the APK to install this on phone and tablet:
https://github.com/fgl27/SmartTwitchTV/releases
This is a "open source project" maintain today by a single developer on this github repertory:
https://github.com/fgl27/SmartTwitchTV
Anyone is welcome to participate of the development, you can participate via github or email fglfgl27@gmail.com
Any issue , feature request, help request or anything related can be informed via github issue or via email.
This app has no affiliation with Twitch, this is a user made app, but is only possible because Twitch provide all the API that it's uses to show the in app Twitch content.
Those API are all open and documented here:
https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/
