🎮 Introducing AX Arcade — Play Games & Earn AX Points Toward Bitcoin Rewards! ₿
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🎮 Introducing AX Arcade — Play Games & Earn AX Points Toward Bitcoin Rewards! ₿

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm the developer behind AX Arcade, a gaming app where you can enjoy games and earn AX Points through gameplay.

🚀 What is AX Arcade?

AX Arcade brings gaming and rewards together in one app. Instead of downloading multiple apps for different games, you can explore games in one place and earn AX Points as you play.

🎯 What makes it interesting?

🎮 Multiple Games — Enjoy different games in one app.
⭐ AX Points — Earn points through supported gameplay and activities.
₿ Bitcoin Rewards — Explore the Bitcoin rewards concept built around AX Points.
📱 One Gaming Hub — Discover and play games from a single app.
🛠️ Built by an Indie Developer — I'm building the AX ecosystem and working on expanding its features.

I'm continuing to develop the app and would love to hear what you think. Feedback and suggestions from real players will help me decide what to build next!

📲 Download AX Arcade on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ax.games

A question for the community: What would make you play a rewards-based gaming app regularly — more games, daily challenges, leaderboards, or better rewards? 🤔

Thanks for checking out my project! ❤️

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 5 days ago
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AX TV Remote update: optional sign-in,Bitcoin Pool

TV Remote for Android TV | AX update: optional sign-in, AX Points for using the remote, and a share of a Bitcoin pool

Hi all, I'm the developer of AX TV Remote, a remote for Android TV and Google TV. The new update adds something I've been building for a while.

TV Remote for Android TV | AX - Apps on Google Play

25 AX Premium Lifetime Codes

To celebrate the update, I have 25 Lifetime Premium codes to give away.

If you'd like one, comment below and tell me:

What feature would you most like to see added to AX TV Remote?

I'll randomly select 25 comments and reply/contact the winners with a Lifetime Premium code.

No purchase necessary.

I'd also really appreciate honest feedback on the AX Points amounts and Bitcoin pool system. This is the first version, so I'm interested in hearing what you think and what should be changed.

What's new

  • Sign in with Huntbits (optional). The remote works exactly as before without an account. Signing in adds the things below.
  • AX Points. You earn them for normal use: opening the app, connecting to your TV, watching IPTV for a few minutes, casting, or setting a sleep timer. Most are once per day, a few are one-time bonuses.
  • Bitcoin pools. Your points count toward a running pool. It is not a lottery and nobody "wins": everyone who took part gets a share based on their points when the pool ends.
  • Use AX Points for Premium. Spend points on AX Ecosystem days instead of paying (1 day, 7 days, 30 days or a year).
  • Invite a friend. You both get AX Points once your friend installs the app and connects it to a TV.
  • Premium on your account. The AX Ecosystem subscription follows your account to every phone you sign in on. Lifetime and code unlocks stay tied to the phone they were used on.

What it doesn't do

Button presses, typing, voice search and anything you cast still go only between your phone and your TV over your own Wi-Fi. Signing in only tells the server that a points action happened, never which TV, which channel or what you cast.

There's a new AX Points page in Settings showing how you earn, the pools running now, and what your points can buy.

Feedback on the points amounts is very welcome, since this is the first version.

Thanks for checking out AX TV Remote! ❤️

AX TV Remote — Android TV & Google TV Remote

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 8 days ago
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I’m planning a rewards points system for AX users — what do you think?

I’m working on a rewards system for AX app users and would love to get some feedback from the community before launching it.

The idea is simple: users can earn AX Points by using AX apps and completing activities. Points would be tracked to the user’s account, with the activity, game/app, time, and other relevant details recorded.

The points could eventually be used for rewards within the AX/Huntbits ecosystem.

I’ve also started working on the rewards website:

👉 https://huntbits.com/

What do you think of the concept and the current site?

What would make you actually want to earn and use points?

I’m especially interested in ideas for:

  • Ways users should earn points
  • Rewards people would actually want
  • Preventing cheating/fake points
  • How the rewards wallet should work
  • Features you would like to see

This is still in the planning stage, so feedback can actually influence how I build it.

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 16 days ago
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Update: my phone-to-PC remote app now does webcam, mic, second display and a full file manager

Hi all, I'm the solo dev behind Remote Mouse & Keyboard | AX. It turns your Android phone into a touchpad and keyboard for your Windows PC over Wi-Fi. This update is the biggest one so far, so here's what's new:

📷 Phone Webcam. Your phone's camera shows up as "AX Camera" in Zoom, Teams, Meet, OBS or anything else on the PC. You can control zoom, torch, focus, lens and rotation from the phone. It keeps streaming with the screen off.

🎤 Phone as a microphone. Use the phone's mic in PC apps (needs the free VB-CABLE driver), or just play it through the PC's speakers.

🔊 Phone sound on the PC. Play a video or music on your phone and hear it from the PC's speakers. You can also record the PC's sound, your mic, or both.

🖥️ Second display. Extend your desktop onto your phone. The app walks you through the one-time setup.

📁 File Manager. Browse the PC's files from your phone. Send files and whole folders both ways, search, pin folders, and cut/copy/paste. Interrupted transfers resume where they stopped.

⌨️ Better keyboard. It's full screen now, with a built-in touchpad strip, and keys show the case they'll actually type.

Also: smoother screen mirroring (H.264 video), plus lots of fixes.

How it works: install the free receiver on your Windows PC (Microsoft Store or the website), open the app on your phone, and it finds the PC on your Wi-Fi. Everything is encrypted and pairs with a code, and nothing goes through a cloud server.

📱 Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ax.remote
💻 PC receiver: https://ax.huntbits.com/download/

It's free with ads, and there's an optional Premium that removes them. I'd really like feedback, especially bugs and what you'd want next. I read every comment.

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 21 days ago
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Remote Mouse & Keyboard | AX for Windows PC

Hey everyone,

I'm a solo dev. My PC is hooked up to my TV, and I got tired of getting off the sofa every time I needed to pause something, click a link or type a search. The remote apps I tried either lagged, made me create an account, or sent my keystrokes unencrypted, and I didn't want my passwords going over Wi-Fi like that. So I built my own.

It's called Remote Mouse & Keyboard | AX - Apps on Google Play

Join subreddit AXApps

What it does

  • Touchpad: one finger moves the cursor, tap to click, two fingers to scroll, with left, middle and right buttons
  • Keyboard: full landscape keyboard with a touchpad built in, plus numpad and function key layouts
  • Screen: mirror your PC on your phone, record it, take screenshots, lock the PC or turn the display off
  • Speaker: play your PC's sound through your phone (handy if the PC has no speakers)
  • Files and chat: send files and clipboard text both ways
  • Media and browser controls: play/pause, volume, back/forward, tabs, and shortcuts like copy/paste in one tap

Privacy was the main thing I cared about

Your keystrokes include your passwords, so:

  • There's no account, sign-up or cloud. Your phone talks directly to your PC on your own network.
  • Everything is encrypted end to end with the Noise protocol.
  • The first time you connect, a 6-digit code has to match on both screens. Being on the same Wi-Fi isn't enough to take control.
  • You can unpair from either device whenever you want.

Setup takes about a minute

  1. Install the free receiver on your PC: Microsoft Store or always get the latest version via direct download.
  2. Install the app on your phone: Google Play
  3. Put both on the same Wi-Fi, open the app, pick your PC (or scan the QR code) and check the code matches

After that it reconnects on its own. If you just want to look around first, there's a Demo PC mode that doesn't control anything.

Being upfront about pricing: the app is free with ads. There's an optional one-time purchase that unlocks Premium features for good.

Current limits: the PC side is Windows only for now. Mac support is in development.

Free Premium codes: I'm giving Lifetime Premium codes to the first [50] people who want one. Just comment or DM me, and you don't have to do anything in return. If you try it, I'd really like to hear what works, what's broken and what you'd want added.

I'll be in the comments answering questions. Thanks for reading!

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 30 days ago

AX Remote Mouse & Keyboard — Looking for testers and feedback

AX Remote Mouse & Keyboard — Looking for testers and feedback

I’ve been working on AX Remote Mouse & Keyboard, which turns an Android phone into a wireless mouse, touchpad and keyboard for a Windows PC (with macOS support also available through the receiver).

I’m looking for a few people to test the app and give honest feedback — especially on things that feel confusing, broken, slow, or could simply be better.

🖱️ What you can test

  • Precision touchpad / mouse controls
  • Full phone keyboard
  • Scrolling
  • Left, middle and right mouse buttons
  • Media controls
  • Clipboard and text sharing
  • File transfer
  • PC active-window information
  • Reconnection and pairing

📱 Get the Android app

AX Remote Mouse & Keyboard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ax.remote

💻 Install the AX Receiver

Windows / macOS receiver:
https://ax.huntbits.com/download/

Both devices should be connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

🧪 What I’d like from testers

Please actually use it for a while and tell me:

  • What works well?
  • What doesn't work?
  • Is the mouse/touchpad accurate enough?
  • How does the keyboard feel?
  • Any connection or reconnection problems?
  • What feature would you want next?
  • Anything confusing about the UI?

Negative feedback is welcome. 😄
The goal is to find problems before a wider release, so honest feedback is much more useful than simply saying "works."

🎁 Tester reward

As a thank-you for participating, selected testers who provide useful feedback can receive either:

🏆 Lifetime access to TV Remote for Android TV | AX

OR

🎁 6 months of AX Ecosystem membership

The reward is for participating in testing and providing feedback — not for leaving a positive review.

If you'd like to participate, join r/AXApps and share your experience there. You're also welcome to contribute ideas and help shape the AX apps.

👉 Join: https://www.reddit.com/r/AXApps/

Thanks to anyone willing to test it. I’m especially interested in feedback from people who regularly use their phone as a PC remote. 🙌

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 1 month ago
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TV Remote for Android TV | AX — Spending ₹6K/Day on Ads, Making Only $0.20

I’m running an Android TV remote app and currently spending around ₹6,000 per day on user acquisition.

The problem is I’m making only around $0.20/day from AdMob 😅

I know this is a terrible ROI, but I’m trying to understand what I should fix before scaling further.

The app is a TV remote for Android/Smart TVs, and I’m currently experimenting with ads and paid features.

For developers who have experience with AdMob and app acquisition:

  • Is this simply a retention problem?
  • Is my user acquisition cost too high?
  • How do you determine the expected lifetime value of users?
  • Should I focus more on subscriptions/IAP instead of ads?
  • What would you check first in AdMob/analytics?

Would appreciate honest feedback from anyone who has scaled a similar utility/remote app.

Current numbers:

Trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong before throwing more money at it.

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 1 month ago

market://launch?id=<pkg> stopped working on Android TV — Play Store 52.x refuses it, 38.x works

Heads up for anyone whose app launches other apps on a Google TV / Android TV device.

Symptom: ACTION_VIEW with market://launch?id=<package> no longer launches the app. The Play Store handles the intent, then does nothing. Logcat:

E/Finsky: [2] Instant apps market deeplink launches are disabled.

The intent still resolves — it goes to com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.instantlaunchapi.InstantLauncherActivity — it just refuses to launch.

It's the Play Store version, not the device. Uninstalling Play Store updates on the TV rolled it back and fixed it immediately:

Play Store market://launch
52.6.20-24 refused
38.7.29-23 (factory) works

The rollback doesn't last. Play re-updated itself within about two hours and it broke again. am force-stop com.android.vending doesn't help at any point. A full reboot gives roughly a 5-minute window where it works before the flag syncs back — which made it look like a wedged process at first.

Reproduces without any app involved:

adb shell "am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'market://launch?id=com.google.android.youtube.tv'"
adb shell dumpsys activity activities | grep -m1 mResumedActivity

What still works:

  • Per-app schemes — vnd.youtube://, netflix://Netflix, hotstar://www.hotstar.com, zee5://www.zee5.com. Read them off the device with dumpsys package <pkg> | grep -i -e scheme -e authority. The authority matters as much as the scheme: nflx:// and nflx://Netflix both fail to resolve where netflix://Netflix works.
  • Store listings — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<pkg> opens the Play listing fine, and shows Open when the app is installed. Unaffected by whatever this flag is.

What doesn't:

  • android-app://<pkg> — won't resolve
  • intent://#Intent;package=…;end — won't resolve

Note the error says "Instant apps", and market://launch is handled by InstantLauncherActivity — part of the Google Play Instant machinery Google has been retiring. That may be the mechanism.

One device, so take it as a data point rather than a finding: Hisense Google TV, Android 11. If you have a TV on Play Store 52.x, can you check whether market://launch still works for you? Trying to work out whether this is a broad rollout or something narrower.

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u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 2 months ago

market://launch?id=<pkg> stopped working on Android TV — Play Store 52.6.20-24 refuses it, 38.x works

Heads up for anyone whose app launches other apps on a Google TV / Android TV device.

Symptom: ACTION_VIEW with market://launch?id=<package> no longer launches the app. The Play Store handles the intent, then does nothing. Logcat:

E/Finsky: [2] Instant apps market deeplink launches are disabled.

The intent still resolves — it goes to com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.instantlaunchapi.InstantLauncherActivity — it just refuses to launch.

It's the Play Store version, not the device. Uninstalling Play Store updates on the TV rolled it back and fixed it immediately:

Play Store market://launch
52.6.20-24 refused
38.7.29-23 (factory) works

The rollback doesn't last. Play re-updated itself within about two hours and it broke again. am force-stop com.android.vending doesn't help at any point. A full reboot gives roughly a 5-minute window where it works before the flag syncs back — which made it look like a wedged process at first.

Reproduces without any app involved:

adb shell "am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d 'market://launch?id=com.google.android.youtube.tv'"
adb shell dumpsys activity activities | grep -m1 mResumedActivity

What still works:

  • Per-app schemes — vnd.youtube://, netflix://Netflix, hotstar://www.hotstar.com, zee5://www.zee5.com. Read them off the device with dumpsys package <pkg> | grep -i -e scheme -e authority. The authority matters as much as the scheme: nflx:// and nflx://Netflix both fail to resolve where netflix://Netflix works.
  • Store listings — https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<pkg> opens the Play listing fine, and shows Open when the app is installed. Unaffected by whatever this flag is.

What doesn't:

  • android-app://<pkg> — won't resolve
  • intent://#Intent;package=…;end — won't resolve

Note the error says "Instant apps", and market://launch is handled by InstantLauncherActivity — part of the Google Play Instant machinery Google has been retiring. That may be the mechanism.

One device, so take it as a data point rather than a finding: Hisense Google TV, Android 11. If you have a TV on Play Store 52.x, can you check whether market://launch still works for you? Trying to work out whether this is a broad rollout or something narrower.

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u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 2 months ago

I reverse-engineered Google's Android TV remote protocol so my phone could replace the remote I keep losing

My Google TV remote lives somewhere in the couch. The official Google TV app on my phone works, but it's slow to connect and it drops the session constantly — so I spent a while figuring out how it actually talks to the TV, and built my own.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ax.androidtv

It speaks the real Android TV Remote v2 protocol — TLS on port 6467 for PIN pairing (the shared secret is derived from both ends' certificates, so there's no password to store), then a control session on 6466 with a keepalive ping. There's no public spec for it, so a lot of this was decompiling, staring at protobuf wire bytes, and guessing field numbers. Some findings that cost me real time:

  • Voice isn't a stream you'd expect — RemoteVoiceBegin carries {samples, sampleSize, channels} and the audio goes in a bare bytes field, with no session id anywhere. Getting that field number wrong just makes the TV silently ignore you.
  • The TV broadcasts its own state back: field 50 carries volume/mute/max, field 40 carries live on/standby. That means the power button can reflect what the TV is actually doing instead of guessing and getting out of sync, which every remote app I tried gets wrong.
  • When "it won't connect" happens with a perfectly healthy network, it's usually the TV's accept queue wedged by a zombie session from a previous app — not your Wi-Fi. Force-stopping the TV-side app fixes it.
  • There's also a Bluetooth HID path: the phone registers as a standard keyboard + consumer-control device, so it works with no network at all. Power works over it; app-launch links don't, and that asymmetry isn't documented anywhere I could find.

What it does day to day: auto-discovery over mDNS, D-pad + touchpad, a keyboard that types into whatever field the TV has focused, volume/media keys, voice search, and an apps tab you can pin and rename tiles on.

It's on Play, free, with ads and an optional premium unlock. Not trying to sell anyone here — I'd mostly like to know whether the pairing flow makes sense to someone who hasn't been staring at it for months, and whether it connects on TVs I don't own (I've only tested against a handful of Google TV models).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ax.androidtv

Happy to go deeper on the protocol side if anyone's poking at the same thing — the wire format details are the part I wish someone had written up before I started.

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 2 months ago

App Name: AX: TV Remote / Tv Browser/ for Android TV [Free] (Android TV / Google TV)

App Name: AX: TV Remote / Tv Browser/ for Android TV [Free] (Android TV / Google TV)

What it does: A full web browser built for the television instead of ported to it, so you can reach every site that never got a TV app. Instead of fighting a D-pad, your phone becomes a touchpad that drives the cursor on the TV.

Link:

To redeem: AX: TV Remote → Settings → Premium → Enter your code → Redeem. It unlocks instantly and covers both apps. One thing to know: the code locks to the device you redeem it on, permanently, so use the phone you plan to keep.

Requirement: AX: TV Remote on your phone. You want it anyway — it's where the touchpad is smoothest (Apps section, no QR needed), and it's where the feedback thread and code redemption live. It's free, and the Premium you get covers both apps.

  1. Install AX: TV Browser on your TV and use it for a bit.
  2. Install AX: TV Remote on your phone (free, required) and open Settings → Feedback.
  3. Send me what you thought — good or bad — and mention Reddit.
  4. I reply in that same thread with your code; replies arrive as an in-app notification, so there's nothing to watch for

Bug reports: post them at r/AXApps — https://www.reddit.com/r/AXApps/ — that's where I track issues, betas, and release notes for both apps. It's day one, so if something's broken I'd rather hear it there than read it in a one-star review.AX: Tv Browser for Android TV [FREE]

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 2 months ago
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I made a browser for Android TV where your phone is the touchpad — send me feedback in-app and I'll send you a free Premium code

I'm the developer of AX: TV Browser — a real web browser for Android TV / Google TV, for all the sites that never got a TV app. (I also make AX: TV Remote, the phone remote it pairs with.)

The part I want your opinion on: your phone is the touchpad. Scan the QR shown on the TV and your phone opens a trackpad — no install, no pairing, no account — and you move the cursor and click on the TV with it. That's the whole point. Driving a website with a D-pad is miserable; a touchpad makes it feel like a normal browser.

It's just a page your TV serves on your own wifi. Nothing leaves your network, and there's no account anywhere in this.

Free with ads. Runs on Google TV, Chromecast with Google TV, Shield, and Android TV sticks.

The offer — 100 free Premium codes:

  1. Install AX: TV Browser on your TV and actually use it for a bit.
  2. Install AX: TV Remote on your phone (free) and go to Settings → Feedback.
  3. Send me what you thought — good or bad — and mention Reddit.
  4. I reply in that same thread with a free Premium code. Replies arrive as a notification in the app, so there's nothing to watch for.

To redeem: in AX: TV Remote → Settings → Premium → Enter your code, paste it and hit Redeem. It unlocks instantly. One thing to know: the code locks to the device you redeem it on, permanently — so use the phone you actually intend to keep.

100 codes, one per person, first come. I'll edit this post when they're gone.

Premium is one subscription across both apps — it removes ads in the browser and the remote, and unlocks the extra accent colours. Normally ₹[X]/year.

I'm asking for feedback sent to me in the app — not a Play Store rating. Tell me it's broken and you still get the code.

What I most want to hear: does the touchpad feel laggy on your wifi, and which sites render wrong on your TV. Those two I can fix fastest.

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 2 months ago
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Welcome to r/AXApps — The Official AX Community 👋

Welcome to the AX Community! 👋

Welcome to the official AX community, developed by Happy Games.

AX is built specifically for Android TV and Google TV, with tools designed to make your TV easier and more enjoyable to use.

Here you can:

📺 Discuss AX and how you use it
💡 Suggest new features and improvements
🐛 Report bugs and problems
🆕 Get updates about new releases
🧪 Join beta testing and try upcoming features
❓ Get help from the community and AX team

We want this to be a place where your feedback actually matters. If there is something you want AX to do, tell us — your suggestions can help shape future updates.

Start here 👇

Introduce yourself and tell us:

  • What TV or streaming device do you use?
  • What AX features do you use most?
  • What feature would you like to see next?

Thanks for joining! ❤️

— Happy Games / AX Team

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u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 2 months ago

AX: Remote for Android TV | Giveaway 100 only.

Hi everyone! 👋

I recently released AX: Remote for Android TV, a remote-control app for Android TV & Google TV, and I'd love to get more people testing it.

🎁 I'm giving away 100 Lifetime Premium upgrades!

How to participate

  1. ⬆️ Upvote this post so more Android TV users can discover it.
  2. Install the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ax.androidtv
  3. Connect it to your TV and use it for a few minutes.
  4. Open Feedback in the app and send your honest feedback (Bug, Idea, or Other).

Tell me:

  • What you liked
  • Any bugs you found
  • Features you'd like to see

📩 Important

Lifetime Premium codes will NOT be shared in Reddit comments or Reddit DMs.

After reviewing your feedback, I'll reply directly inside the app. Open the Feedback → Premium Access page to check for my response and your Lifetime Premium upgrade code.

(See screenshots below for where the developer reply appears.)

📺 Demo Video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/FuwnAm6ehH0

Features

  • 📺 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth connection
  • 🎮 D-pad + Touchpad
  • ⌨️ Keyboard input
  • 🎤 Voice Search
  • 🔢 Number Pad
  • ▶️ Media controls
  • ⏰ TV Alarm & Sleep Timer
  • 📡 IPTV Player
  • 📲 Cast photos, videos & music to your TV
  • 🚫 One-time Premium upgrade (No subscription)

I'm actively improving the app, so every suggestion helps. Bug reports and feature requests are especially appreciated.

If you enjoy the app, a Google Play review would mean a lot.

Thanks for your support! 😊

u/Expensive_Milk_958 — 3 months ago