ARVIO v1.9.94

ARVIO v1.9.94

This release focuses on making the TV/IPTV experience much faster and more reliable, while also improving metadata, playback, mobile polish, and app stability.

TV, IPTV, EPG, and catchup

• Reworked large IPTV list handling so 50k+ channel playlists load and navigate more smoothly.
• Added faster visible-first EPG loading, SQLite-backed EPG indexing, warmer guide caches, and improved guide matching.
• Added and refined support for multiple EPG sources per IPTV playlist.
• Improved catchup support with fullscreen guide browsing, archive-aware playback URLs, past guide history, and better seek/pause behavior.
• Fixed several IPTV category issues, including hidden category restore visibility and cleaner category behavior.
• Improved live TV playback startup, Stalker/Xtream handling, stream headers, buffering behavior, and source fallback behavior.
• Fixed TV guide back navigation and reduced slow fullscreen live-TV exit behavior.
• Improved TV channel logos, channel metadata, provider scoping, and guide navigation stability.

Playback and sources

• Improved startup playback retry/failover so bad first attempts can move to the next valid source more reliably.
• Avoided debrid side effects during stream prewarm, so searching no longer starts unwanted debrid downloads.
• Improved default audio selection, including a None option for users who need it.
• Improved source switching, mini-player/fullscreen transitions, and player error handling.

Metadata, ratings, and discovery

• Switched title metadata toward real IMDb ratings when available.
• Added IMDb-style ratings for episodes and improved rating hydration across home/details.
• Prefetched provider logos and IMDb metadata so focused cards show service badges faster.
• Fixed mobile catalog pagination and missing landscape logos.

Mobile, UI, and settings polish

• Added Chromecast support for the mobile player.
• Added Picture-in-Picture mode for touch devices.
• Redesigned the watchlist with separate Movies and Series rows.
• Added a Netflix-style mobile hero carousel and improved mobile layout/search spacing.
• Improved TV settings polish, input modal button visibility, accent/focus states, and launcher icon centering.
• Improved screen-timeout handling so the screen is kept on only during playback.

Stability, security, and cleanup

• Reduced noisy handled crash reports in Sentry.
• Hardened IPTV JSON loading against memory pressure and reduced guide memory churn.
• Added usage analytics tracking.
• Hardened auth email sending.
• Added pairing-token validation and replaced wildcard CORS with an origin allowlist.
• Included several regex, Gson TypeToken, and parsing cleanups to reduce memory and startup overhead.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
@ProdigyV21, @Himanth-reddy, @chillpill244, @silentbil, @jonahmichael, @EierKopZA, @pjetrazz

APK: ARVIO-v1.9.94.apk

ARVIO v1.9.93

ARVIO v1.9.93

Official v1.9.93 release built from main commit c6d4a811.

Highlights

• Fixed cloud sync reliability so fresh local changes are pushed before cloud restore can overwrite them.
• Added missing cloud sync coverage for DNS, custom User-Agent, OLED background, focus border color, loading stats, TorrServer URL, and related profile settings.
• Home server tokens are now encrypted at rest locally while remaining restorable through cloud sync.
• Fixed TMDB/API gzip edge cases and metadata failures that caused missing posters, black detail backgrounds, and details page crashes.
• Fixed playback startup/autoplay behavior so autoplay starts the highest source first and manual source selection starts the selected source.
• Improved TV home and player UI: cleaner pause overlay metadata, better hero metadata layout, lower hero positioning, larger IMDb/service markers, and better visual grouping.
• Added support for multiple EPG links per IPTV playlist.
• Improved IPTV/home-server loading, continue watching artwork, mobile home-server audio track selection, custom User-Agent editing, and non-Trakt cloud/continue-watching sync.

Assets

• ARVIO-v1.9.93.apk - sideload/TV release APK with in-app updater enabled.

Contributors

Thanks to @ProdigyV21, @EierKopZA, @Himanth-reddy, @silentbil, @chillpill244, and @pika1998.

ARVIO Beta 2 V1.9.93

Beta APK built from latest GitHub main commit fcfe4c4. Sideload release build. VersionName: 1.9.93. VersionCode: 272.

ARVIO v1.9.92

Home Server Sources and Catalogs

• Added Home Server source support for user-owned Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex libraries.
• Added Home Server catalog import so personal server collections can appear as ARVIO catalogs.
• Added distinct server labels in sources for users with multiple connected servers.
• Improved Home Server matching speed, source labels, playback readiness, and autoplay behavior.
• Improved Plex authentication discovery and matching reliability.

TV, IPTV, and VOD

• Improved full IPTV EPG backfill coverage so more channels receive guide data.
• Improved live TV category context actions, category reorder behavior, and left-navigation focus.
• Improved channel logo loading performance in the TV page.
• Fixed South Africa country labeling in TV categories.
• Improved IPTV VOD quality handling for episodes and sources.

Details, Search, and Navigation

• Added TMDB movie collections to details pages and moved collection rows above More Like This.
• Fixed duplicate "Collection" naming in details pages.
• Fixed several details-page spacing, cast-row, collection-row, and poster-clipping issues.
• Fixed details page cast focus jumps and vertical focus skips.
• Fixed search genre filters, search keyboard activation, and search/filter focus indicators.
• Improved home hero syncing so focused cards drive the displayed metadata more reliably.
• Improved focus border behavior and added focus-border color support.

Continue Watching, Profiles, and Cloud

• Added continue-watching card enhancements, including clearer season/episode progress badges.
• Fixed false "continue at" resume times on new or unwatched upcoming episodes.
• Refreshed Continue Watching after cloud restore so cloud login restores visible progress sooner.
• Added synced custom profile avatars and fixed avatar preservation during cloud sync.
• Fixed season unwatch and batch season-watch behavior to avoid unnecessary duplicate Trakt writes.

Player, Subtitles, and Accessibility

• Fixed remote selection for the next-episode prompt and routed up-next remote keys correctly.
• Added AI subtitles support and upgraded Media3/ExoPlayer to 1.9.0.
• Added AI subtitle settings on mobile.
• Fixed manual subtitle selection being overwritten by default subtitle rules.
• Fixed subtitle language filtering and subtitle sorting behavior.
• Added subtitle offset and subtitle style settings.
• Added spoiler blur support and Android TV 10 fallback behavior.
• Added trailer sound controls and improved trailer setting behavior on mobile.

Contributors

• @EierKopZA : search focus/filter fixes, details collection visibility, continue-watching cards, poster episode badges, subtitle/trailer/spoiler settings, and TV layout fixes.
• @EierKopZA : spoiler blur fallback, focus border color support, TV details poster clipping, search filter focus borders, and collection/watchlist focus fixes.
• @Himanth-reddy : regex/performance optimization work, codebase optimization, README maintenance, and catalog/settings stability work.
• @silentbil : AI subtitles, subtitle scoring/sorting, subtitle settings fixes, and mobile AI settings visibility.

ARVIO 1.9.91

ARVIO 1.9.91

IPTV and TV page

• Reworked IPTV category handling so provider playlist groups can stay in the same order users configured in their IPTV list.
• Added the expandable All Channels grouping for automatically matched categories.
• Added category context actions for hiding and restoring IPTV groups.
• Removed extra playlist-name clutter from channel rows.
• Improved mobile and tablet TV playback fullscreen behavior so the bottom navigation bar no longer remains visible.
• Changed the mobile top navigation label from TV Shows to TV.
• Improved IPTV VOD source handling so multiple available qualities can appear instead of only one VOD quality.

Watchlist and Continue Watching

• Fixed Trakt watchlist order so items better follow the latest-added order.
• Fixed Trakt watchlist matching so the app is less likely to choose the wrong remake or wrong year.
• Fixed a regression where the watchlist could briefly load and then disappear into an empty state.
• Fixed stale local watchlist data on TV after switching accounts or profiles.
• Improved Continue Watching startup so cached items appear faster on the home screen.
• Improved Continue Watching behavior with and without Trakt so profile-specific progress is used more consistently.

Playback and sources

• Improved source switching reliability in the player. Contributor: EierkopZA.
• Improved source loading from fast Search-to-Details navigation. Contributor: EierkopZA.
• Improved player back behavior and playback navigation. Contributor: Himanth Reddy.
• Improved stream startup behavior for selected sources.
• Improved trailer and service video behavior.
• Fixed loading clearlogo flicker in the player. Contributor: EierkopZA.
• Improved Android TV stability on lower-memory devices by reducing image-cache pressure during catalog scrolling and before stream playback starts.

Catalogs and discovery

• Added Discover Catalogs search for public Trakt and MDBList lists.
• Improved Discover Catalogs TV focus outlines and navigation.
• Improved Discover Catalogs mobile layout.
• Made catalog list adding a one-click action, with Added state feedback.
• Improved catalog rename and dialog language handling.
• Fixed catalog layout controls and focus behavior. Contributor: Himanth Reddy.
• Improved catalog navigation restoration. Contributor: silentbil.

Details, anime, and metadata

• Fixed anime episode source matching for multi-season anime.
• Fixed details page metadata behavior. Contributor: EierkopZA.
• Improved details/source reliability by waiting for IMDb ID where needed. Contributor: EierkopZA.
• Fixed several details layout and focus regressions.
• Added and refined Crunchyroll assets. Contributor: Himanth Reddy.

Settings, language, profiles, and cloud

• Improved app language resources. Contributor: silentbil.
• Added subtitle language filtering UI. Contributor: silentbil.
• Fixed DNS persistence. Contributor: Himanth Reddy.
• Fixed cloud login/startup language restore.
• Improved profile loading and profile creation behavior.
• Improved profile and player focus fixes. Contributor: silentbil.

GitLab Release

This GitHub release mirrors the GitLab release notes. Release artifacts are maintained on GitLab:
https://gitlab.com/arvio1/ARVIO/-/releases/v1.9.91

ARVIO 1.9.9

ARVIO 1.9.9

Android TV / IPTV overhaul

• Reworked the TV page for very large IPTV lists, including lists with 50,000+ channels.
• Improved channel loading, first EPG appearance, favorites, recent channels, and startup behavior.
• Fixed major DPAD focus and navigation issues across IPTV rows and channel lists.

Smoother TV navigation

• Improved rail scrolling, focus behavior, and animation timing across the home, details, watchlist, collections, and TV pages.
• Reduced jank in heavy catalog sections such as genres, franchises, Top 10, and recently added rows.
• Fixed multiple focus cropping and blinking issues without lowering artwork quality or removing video previews.

Playback and source loading

• Improved source discovery speed and reliability for CloudStream, HTTP, VOD, IPTV VOD, and debrid sources.
• Restored and improved MP4/service video playback behavior.
• Improved autoplay selection so higher-quality and larger sources are preferred while keeping startup faster.
• Added frame-rate matching before playback to reduce stutter.

CloudStream and addon compatibility

• CloudStream support is still in the early stages and may not work with every extension yet.
• Expanded CloudStream and community addon support.
• Improved extractor and runtime handling so more addons appear correctly in sources and are playable.
• Improved source matching for movies and series.

Trakt, watchlist, and continue watching

• Reworked Trakt watchlist ordering and matching so items better follow the newest-added order from Trakt.
• Improved matching by title, year, and type to avoid wrong versions, such as older remakes or unrelated entries.
• Fixed continue watching logic so it uses real in-progress Trakt data instead of everything that was ever left unfinished.
• Improved profile isolation for Trakt data, watch history, watchlist, and continue watching.

Profile isolation and cloud sync

• Profiles now have isolated settings, catalogs, Trakt connections, history, watchlists, and continue watching.
• Addons and IPTV can still be shared where intended.
• Improved real-time cloud sync behavior across profiles and devices.
• Fixed force cloud sync and subtitle preference persistence.
• Added and refined profile PIN support, including fixes for mobile profile creation.

Mobile and settings improvements

• Reworked the mobile settings layout and naming, including renaming "Stremio" to "Addons".
• Improved profile creation and editing on mobile, including keyboard handling and avatar picker scaling.
• Added app-wide language coverage for the languages listed in app settings.
• Added better catalog and IPTV management controls on mobile.

Collections, catalogs, and metadata

• Fixed several genre, service, franchise, and Top 10 catalog issues.
• Top 10 Movies and Top 10 Shows are now capped correctly.
• Removed unwanted Favorite TV catalog behavior from the homescreen.
• Improved metadata logos and IMDb SVG rating display on home and details pages.
• Removed MAL score display.
• Added cleaner provider logos, including Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, Prime Video, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock, Apple TV+, IMDb, and others.

Contributors

Thank you to everyone who helped with this release, including:

• Sage Gavin Davids
• Himanth Reddy
• Eier Kop / EierkopZA
• chrishudson918
• mrtxiv
• And many more people who contributed smaller fixes, ideas, testing, and feedback. Thank you.

Sources

• Metadata and discovery: TMDB, IMDb metadata/logo assets, Trakt.
• Sync/auth: Supabase and ARVIO Cloud.
• Playback/addons: IPTV M3U/Xtream/Stalker sources, Stremio-compatible addons, CloudStream/community HTTP sources.
• Smoothness references: Android TV device traces and public Android TV performance research.

GitLab Release

This GitHub release mirrors the GitLab release notes. Release artifacts are maintained on GitLab:
https://gitlab.com/arvio1/ARVIO/-/releases/v1.9.9

ARVIO 1.9.8

ARVIO 1.9.8

Added

• Premium source picker overhaul shared between Details and Player, with richer source cards, improved metadata chips, better sorting, and clearer quality/release/audio/provider presentation.
• Clock format setting in Settings (12-hour / 24-hour) with app-wide top bar clock support.
• Volume Boost setting using Android LoudnessEnhancer.
• MAL score badge on anime details pages.
• Mobile-visible back button on deep screens.
• Post-episode "Up Next" prompt that respects auto-play-next.
• Fire TV / Bluetooth media remote support (play/pause, stop, rewind/fast-forward, next/previous episode).
• Multiple named IPTV playlist backend support (up to 3 lists) with enabled/disabled state.

Improved

• Top navigation bar redesigned: centered nav items, settings gear on the right, avatar-only profile entry, cleaner visual hierarchy.
• Home screen startup speed: categories cached to disk for near-instant relaunch, Continue Watching fetch decoupled from loadHomeData so it can complete independently.
• Image loading and perceived loading speed improved via dedicated Coil client, larger disk/memory caches, DNS warm-up, better preload behavior, and empty-image-url guards.
• Player controls, top bar focus, screen transitions, row emphasis, and card interactions feel smoother and more premium.
• Tablet player controls are larger, better centered, and more readable on bright content.
• Source picker labeling refined so torrent/cached/VOD are surfaced more accurately.
• Top 10 rows redesigned to use normal cards with gold rank badges instead of oversized background numerals.
• TV page EPG now loads up front when stale/missing instead of trickling in after page open.

Fixed

• In-app updater downloads but never installs.
• Deleted catalogs flashing back on home load.
• Player crash when switching audio language.
• Details page now focuses the first unwatched episode by default.
• Custom subtitle addons like Wizdom/Ktuvit now install and resolve correctly.
• IMAX badge added; Dolby Vision badge false positives fixed.
• Cross-device cloud sync timing improved with ON_RESUME pull, watch-history realtime updates, token refresh, and dirty-push retry behavior.
• Continue Watching / Trakt logic substantially reworked to reduce stale and incorrect items, better handle new episode premieres, and improve refresh timing.
• Home focus/row stability improved across startup and catalog updates.
• Trailer/details-page asset prefetching improved to reduce clearlogo and episode-load lag.
• Login now performs full cloud restore (not just addons), restoring catalogs, IPTV favorites, and other cloud-backed state after sign-in.

GitLab Release

Release artifacts are maintained on GitLab:
https://gitlab.com/arvio1/ARVIO/-/releases/v1.9.8

v1.9.6

What's New in v1.9.6

UI Fixes

• Fixed Top 10 ranked rows: poster cards no longer overflow their container in poster layout mode
• Poster card sizes refined across all screens for better fit
• Details page "More Like This" titles now show up to 2 lines instead of being cut off
• DNS Provider setting is now properly focusable and clickable via D-pad
• Loading screen now uses app logo with pulse animation (contributed by @Himanth-reddy)
• Modal dialogs dismiss on tap outside and have improved scrim (contributed by @Himanth-reddy)

Playback & Streams

• Debrid placeholder streams ("torrent being downloaded", "not cached", etc.) are now blocked from auto-play and show a toast when manually selected
• Playable streams are sorted above pending debrid entries in the source list
• Player subtitle rebuild loop fixed (was causing infinite re-preparing and flickering)

Cloud Sync

• 11 missing sync calls added: subtitle size/color, IPTV hidden groups/reorder, profile CRUD, watched toggle
• Logout now clears all local user data (settings + auth)
• Comprehensive real-time sync between devices

Persistence Fixes

• Catalog deletion now persists across reboots (MDBList preinstalled catalogs)
• IPTV hidden groups and custom category order persist across reboots
• Watchlist page now respects poster/landscape card layout setting

Community Contributions

• @Himanth-reddy: Enhanced startup flow, modal scrim, loading screen
• @EierKopZA: Skip profile selection, watchlist nav fix, search back fix, quality badges, CW fallback

Download code: 4447317

v1.9.5

What's New in v1.9.5

Stability & Playback Fixes

• Fixed a playback issue where addon streams could get stuck loading instead of starting
• Fixed the player subtitle rebuild loop that caused constant re-preparing and flickering time updates
• Fixed non-English subtitles from addon sources by rebuilding the media source once when late subtitles arrive
• Improved subtitle handling for OpenSubtitles/Comet-style SRT links
• Fixed mobile seekbar touch handling with a larger touch target for dragging and tap-to-seek
• Improved trailer playback handling and in-app trailer opening from the details page

Live TV / IPTV

• Fixed Xtream live stream URL formatting (/live/.../*.ts) so more IPTV providers play correctly
• Added retry limits for IPTV playback errors instead of endless silent retries
• Added IPTV category management context menu on TV and touch devices:
  • Favorite / Unfavorite
  • Hide category
  • Move up / Move down
• Added Stalker Portal support via MAC address in IPTV settings
• IPTV hidden groups and ordering are cloud synced

Home / Discover / Search

• Fixed discover-page selection so pressing OK/Select opens the correct item
• New default preinstalled catalogs now come from curated MDBList sources
• Reduced startup load pressure: only the first 3 catalogs preload immediately, the rest load progressively in background batches
• Deleted old preinstalled catalogs now reappear one time after the catalog set changed, but stay hidden again if deleted afterwards
• Search portrait rows are more stable on smaller screens

Settings & Cross-Device Sync

• Added subtitle size and subtitle color settings
• Added trailer auto-play toggle in settings
• New settings are saved to Arvio Cloud
• Fixed catalog removal so deleted catalogs disappear from the UI immediately
• Forced LTR layout for RTL system languages until full Arabic/RTL UI support is added

Mobile / TV UX

• Fixed Samsung Wallet/Card gesture area overlapping the player controls by increasing bottom control padding on mobile
• Improved TV/tablet navigation compatibility with merged community fixes

Community Contributions

Thanks to:

• @EierKopZA for:
  • Skip profile selection option
  • Watchlist navigation fix
  • Search back navigation fix
  • Stream quality badge improvements
  • Continue Watching hydration fallback
• @Himanth-reddy for:
  • Mobile fullscreen UX improvements
  • DNS provider selection support

Update Compatibility

• Version code bumped to 224 so users coming from older release builds and higher-numbered internal/dev builds can update correctly.

Download code: 9154943

v1.9.4

What's New in v1.9.4

Trailer Auto-Play

• Trailers play automatically in the hero banner after 3 seconds
• Native ExoPlayer with YouTube InnerTube extraction (no WebView)
• In-app trailer player on details page
• Toggle in Settings > Playback

New Curated Catalogs

• 24 MDBList-powered catalogs replacing old TMDB defaults
• Netflix, Prime, Max, Disney+, Paramount+, Apple TV+ trending
• Top 10 Movies/Shows Today, Just Added, Coming Soon
• Genre rows: K-Dramas, Horror, Sci-Fi, Spy & Thriller

IPTV Improvements

• Category management: long-press to Favorite, Hide, Reorder
• Stalker portal (MAC address) support
• All IPTV settings cloud synced

Player

• "Ends At" clock (contributed by @EierKopZA)
• Pulsing logo during buffering (contributed by @EierKopZA)
• Subtitle size/color customization
• Non-English subtitles fix (MediaSource rebuild for late-arriving subs)
• SRT MIME type fix for OpenSubtitles

Community Contributions

• Skip profile selection toggle (@EierKopZA)
• Watchlist navigation fix (@EierKopZA)
• Search back button fix (@EierKopZA)
• Quality badges from filename (@EierKopZA)
• CW fallback on TMDB failure (@EierKopZA)
• Mobile fullscreen UX fix (@Himanth-reddy)
• DNS provider selection (@Himanth-reddy)

Bug Fixes

• Version code bumped to 223 (fixes update issues from dev builds)
• Addon delete button works on touch
• Custom catalog metadata translated
• Continue Watching preservation improvements
• Search franchise ordering
• Faster first-launch loading
• Settings reorganized into categories
• Darker home/details gradients
• Daily show episode numbering fallback

Full Changelog

v1.9.3...v1.9.4