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Core Builds Icon Pack v2.3.1 is out! 🔠

My last post covered 2.1.2, so here’s the full catch-up across 2.2.0, 2.3.0, and 2.3.1.

The pack now has 986 icons and 102 wallpapers. This update adds three icons, fixes a waipu.tv mapping, gives the two main apps distinct identities, and includes the improvements to scanning, reporting, and optional support introduced since the last post.

✨ Three New Icons (v2.3.1)

• ARD Sounds: Previously called ARD Audiothek, with an audio-wave mark in ARD blue.
• Pixee: A photo-frame/slideshow icon.
• Morphe: An icon for the patcher manager.

(Note: There’s also a waipu.tv mapping fix for its newer launch activity. The artwork already existed; the additional mapping lets it apply to that activity too).

🎨 App Branding (v2.3.1)

• Main Icon Pack: Gets refreshed cyan launcher artwork and a TV banner (a circle, square, play cue, and plus inside the rounded tile).
• Glyphs App: The full standalone Core Builds Glyphs app now has its own violet launcher icon and TV banner, so it no longer looks like a second copy of the main pack.

🔍 Missing Icons on Home (v2.2.0)

There’s now a Missing icons row under Art style, with a count for your TV. It refreshes when you return to Home, so newly installed apps can appear without restarting the pack. The same scan is still available in Settings. The results distinguish between:

• Icon not applying → Report: The pack has artwork for the app, but maps a different activity. The row shows what the pack currently maps.
• No icon yet → Request: The pack doesn’t have artwork for that app yet.

📱 Better QR Reporting (v2.2.0)

• A visible “Scanning the apps on this TV…” message replaces the blank wait.
• Failed scans show an error instead of closing the app.
• App details and instructions sit beside a larger QR code, rather than stacking off the bottom of a 1080p screen.
• Select the app on your own TV, scan its QR code with your phone, then review and submit the prefilled issue.

(If the GitHub app opens with empty fields, use Menu → Open in browser. You can also photograph the TV’s report screen and attach it to an issue).

🤖 GitHub Request Checker

Added a GitHub-side request checker for icon requests and mapping reports. If required details are missing, it explains what needs fixing and points you to the Missing icons scanner. It updates one bot reply rather than posting duplicates, adds needs-info, and removes the label once complete. (This is repository automation, not background tracking in the TV app).

❤️ Optional Support (v2.3.0)

About → Support Core Builds now has QR codes for GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi. Every feature remains free whether you contribute or not. The codes are generated on the TV, and opening the support screen sends nothing. The project hub has also been cleaned up with direct links to Discord and r/CoreBuilds.

📦 Install / Update to v2.3.1

• Full Icon Pack (Code 5270601): Open it and press Apply, or select it in Projectivy Settings. | v2.3.1 APK
• Glyphs Companion (Code 5804177): The small square-icon companion used by the Art style toggle. | v2.3.1 APK
• Standalone Glyphs App: The full square-only app with its own catalogue, wallpapers, settings, and auditor. (Separate install, no Downloader code). | v2.3.1 APK

Links:

• Release Notes & APKs
• Full Changelog
• Icon Pack Guide

Thanks to everyone sending icon requests and device scans. If an icon still isn’t picking up on your TV, give the Missing icons screen a try — those exact component details make the reports much more useful.

— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋 — Core Builds Icon Pack v2.1.1 is out.

✨ What's New & Recent Changes

• v2.1.1 Additions: Added the vSeeBox Heat family and WAVEO (beta). • v2.0.0 Overhaul: A massive visual cleanup featuring a shared stroke alphabet, a single unified type band for all wordmarks, and cleaner banner layouts. • v2.0.1 Tweaks: Removed the left-edge bar from the banner artwork for a much cleaner look. • Rebuilt Icons: Seven icons were recently added or rebuilt from scratch, including HeatLive, AnimeTV, PatchWall, Stadium Sync, Xiaomi TV+, RTVE Play, and MaxPlayer.

(Note: The five attached sheets show the massive visual overhaul that started in v2.0.0).

🟦 Standalone Glyphs-Only App

The standalone Glyphs-only application now has its own dedicated Downloader code: 5804177. This is entirely separate from the full icon pack and installs as its own app.

📦 Get the Full Icon Pack

• Downloader Code: 5270601 • GitHub Release: Download v2.1.1 here

A Google Play Store version is coming. I'll share an update as soon as the listing is live.

Thanks for checking it out! Feedback and missing-app requests are always welcome.

— Brevity

Icon Pack 2.0.0 is live! 🔠

976 icons, 1207 components. This release kicks off a broader overhaul: the pack's letters are now drawn one way at one size.

The pack spells a lot of app names: 218 icons are wordmarks (Tubi's t, NOWO, GREAT, the 16 marks inside rings and screens). Until now, those letters were drawn three different ways and at three different weights, so a single letter was a hairline and a five-letter word was a blob.

2.0.0 puts them all on one band: caps 96–200px, stroke and spacing tied to the letter height. Words that can't fit break — GREAT sets GRE/AT, nowo sets no/wo. The validator fails anything outside the band by name, so it stays fixed.

📏 Banners & Consistency

Banners follow: the app name and the VOD/LIVE/SPORT kicker are drawn in the same stroke letters as the icon, a step lighter so the mark still leads. The kicker's tracking — defined in code since it shipped, never applied — finally applies. 13 long names also got a shorter banner form.

✨ What's New & Fixed

• New Additions: HeatLive (#205), AnimeTV (#230), and PatchWall (#235) added.
• Redrawn: Xiaomi TV+, RTVE Play, and MaxPlayer have been redrawn from their store icons (MaxPlayer is finally amber).
• Auto-Assign Fixes: Pluto TV, Xiaomi TV+, and RTVE Play all auto-assign again on the devices that reported them.
• Alignment Fix: The CNBC peacock, which was 96px below centre, is now perfectly centred on the grid.

🛠️ Icon Requests & Updates

Requests are easiest to fill when the issue includes a reference icon — the app's own launcher tile. Several of this release's icons were only possible because the real artwork could be read off a store listing or out of the APK; two of them had nothing on any store, so those came out of the APK itself.

📦 Install / Update

• Downloader Code: 5270601
• Full Release Notes: Read on GitHub

(Note: Use a dark card background in Projectivy: Settings → Appearance → Cards → Icon Pack. These icons are drawn for night chrome #0d1117).

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.
— Brevity

Core Builds Icon Pack v1.9.9 is live! 🎬

Cinema has arrived. This update adds Series 10: six new 4K still wallpapers with matching 60fps live loops designed specifically for the big screen.

✨ The Cinema Series

• Marquee Lights
• Velvet Curtain
• Projector Beam
• Neon Lounge
• Late Rentals
• Box Office

🛠️ Features, Fixes & Exports

• 973 Icons: Added new custom coverage for MaxPlayer. Total transparent icons for Android TV/Google TV is now 973.
• 60fps Upgrades: All 12 Deep Space live loops have been completely re-rendered at a buttery 60fps.
• Live Chip & Bulk Export: Added a new "Live" chip for browsing every live wallpaper in one place. You can now bulk-select and export live loops in one go.
• Clean File Routing: Live loops now save securely to Movies/CoreBuilds, and still wallpapers save to Pictures/CoreBuilds.
• Launcher Setup Fixes: Improved launcher setup instructions for when automatic applying is unavailable, including correcting the AT4K setup path (Settings → Themes → Icon packs).
• Motion Support: Both Cinema and Deep Space loops are fully available through Core Motion, Aerial Views, and Overflight.

(Note: The pack now contains 102 wallpapers across 8 series. Designed for Projectivy Launcher and built for the big screen).

📦 Install / Update

• Downloader Code: 5270601
• Release Notes: Read on GitHub
• Direct APK: Download Here

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.
— Brevity

If you've been watching the commits, you've probably noticed the silence on AIOStreams template churn and scraper updates. You might be wondering if Core Builds has stalled.

It hasn't. In fact, more code has shipped in the last few months than ever before. But my daily focus has deliberately shifted away from the endless upstream scraper/regex treadmill of AIOStreams and into building a native, living-room ecosystem for Android TV.

Instead of spending 40 hours a week chasing third-party breaking changes for a 2% filtering improvement, I built and shipped five native Android TV apps—from custom launcher icon packs and chyrons to screensavers, motion plugins, and room acoustic calibration.

Here is the honest breakdown of why that pivot happened, what was built, and what it means for the future of both repos.

1. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: WHY AIOSTREAMS TOOK A BACKSEAT

When Core Builds started, the mission was simple: make debrid streaming on Stremio clean, reliable, and predictable. That birthed our template suite, the PWA Configurator, custom SEL expressions, and device-aware profiles.

Over time, maintaining that stack became an endless game of whack-a-mole:

• The Upstream Treadmill: Upstream AIOStreams updates (v2.35.x churn, contract shifts, NAB changes, regex syncs) require continuous firefighting. You spend days updating scrapers, re-pinning source contracts, and auditing payloads against 102 KB host caps—only for an upstream host or scraper API to break days later.
• Diminishing Returns: The Core Builds template engine and Configurator reached a mature, stable baseline. Between the PWA, automated CI validators, and the Build Advisor/Doctor, the core streaming problem was fundamentally solved. Tuning an obscure regex for a single niche release group wasn't moving the needle anymore.
• The Host & Scraper Fragility: The streaming setup was at the mercy of external factors—host allowlists (ElfHosted, Yeb's, etc.), provider API timeouts, and upstream schema drift.

I asked myself a straightforward question: Is spending 100% of my energy babysitting JSON configs and third-party scrapers actually giving you a better living-room experience?

The answer was no. The real friction when sitting on the couch wasn't having 18 streams instead of 16. It was everything happening around the playback.

2. THE MISSING PIECE: THE LIVING-ROOM TV EXPERIENCE

Sitting in front of an Android TV or Google TV box, the experience outside of the player was fractured:

• Visual Noise: Projectivy Launcher is brilliant, but stock app banners and icons are an inconsistent mess of blown-up mobile assets and harsh square cards.
• Missing TV Utilities: Android TV has no ambient live score chyron, no native TV guide overlay, and crucially, no status bar—you could never tell if your VPN dropped mid-stream without completely quitting your player.
• Lifeless Displays: Screensavers and ambient loops were either bloated, ad-ridden, or sluggish 30fps webviews.
• Poor Living-Room Audio: TV speakers and soundbars sound hollow, but consumer room calibration tools require expensive proprietary microphones.

No AIOStreams template could fix any of that. Native Android TV software could.

3. WHAT I ACTUALLY BUILT: FIVE APPS, ONE LIVING-ROOM BAR

Over the past months, almost all development shifted into brevityA/CoreBuildsApps. What started as a custom icon project expanded into a comprehensive suite of native Leanback apps built with physical D-pad navigation, strict CI validation, and direct Downloader deployment.

Here is what is live right now:

• 🔸 Core Builds Icon Pack (v1.9.8): A completely unified visual layer for Projectivy Launcher. Over 972 handcrafted transparent vector icons adhering to strict stroke geometry and night chrome (#0d1117). Plus, 102 4K wallpapers and bundled 60fps looping live video backgrounds. (Downloader: 5270601)
• 📊 Core Line (v1.4.3): A living-room chyron and sports/news ticker that runs non-intrusively across your screen. Features live sports scores, RSS channel updates, XMLTV integration, and a live VPN status dot that confirms your tunnel is alive while you stream. (Downloader: 7375676)
• 🌌 Core Shift (v2.3.5): A dedicated, lightweight Android TV screensaver and motion wallpaper browser that plays clean 1080p and 4K procedural ambient loops without eating your box's RAM. (Downloader: 8829421)
• 🎥 Core Motion (v1.0.0): A native wallpaper-provider plugin designed to feed smooth, fluid loops directly into Projectivy Launcher's background layer.
• 🩺 Core Doctor (v0.1.0): A local-first network, stream, and suite diagnostic utility. Inspects local playback bottlenecks, DNS, and latency without sending your data to external telemetry servers. (Downloader: 8664938)
• 🔊 Core EQ (v1.0.0): In-development room acoustic correction. It uses frequency test sweeps and your TV remote's built-in microphone to measure room reflections and calculate corrective DSP filters. (Downloader: 7946159)

4. WHAT THIS MEANS FOR CORE-BUILDS (AIOSTREAMS & CONFIGURATOR)

Let's be clear: AIOStreams and Core-Builds are not dead, abandoned, or deprecated.

Here is the exact status of Core-Builds:

• The Base is Solid: The template suite and Configurator (v3.13) remain fully functional. All core automated test suites (306 Python tests, 624 Configurator tests, 75 CLI tests) are green.
• Audited & Documented: We recently performed a comprehensive product audit (#772). We know exactly where the contract drift is, which templates need de-stricting, and which legacy NAB keys need migration.
• Intentional Maintenance vs. Constant Churn: Going forward, Core-Builds will be maintained on a cadence of stability, not hype. I will not be pushing daily emergency commits for every minor upstream scraper hiccup. Upstream contract updates and template fixes will be batched methodically.

Core-Builds is the engine under the hood; CoreBuildsApps is the car you actually sit in. The two are complementary, but the priority needed to rebalance.

5. WHAT'S NEXT

Now that the core foundations of the Android TV suite are tagged, signed, and stabilized, the roadmap is balanced:

• AIOStreams Contract Catch-Up: Resolving the open AIOStreams contract drift (#770), re-pinning against upstream v2.35.3, and cleaning up the strict-matching template warnings.
• Suite Interoperability: Tying Core Doctor and Core Line directly into your streaming workflow so diagnostics and playback awareness feel seamless.
• Core EQ Milestones: Continuing real-hardware acoustic testing on Leanback devices to bring room calibration to anyone with an Android TV remote.

HOW TO CHECK OUT THE NEW WORK

If you've only ever used Core Builds for Stremio/AIOStreams JSON templates, take five minutes to try what's been built on your TV:

• Icon Pack: Enter code 5270601 in Downloader (or grab from GitHub Releases)
• Core Line: Enter code 7375676 in Downloader
• Core Shift: Enter code 8829421 in Downloader

Thank you to everyone who has tested APKs, submitted icon requests, reported edge cases, and supported on Ko-fi. The project hasn't slowed down—it grew up.

— Brevity

Icon Pack 1.9.7 is out. 🎉

It's the biggest design pass the pack has had yet: almost every app that used to get a two-letter tile now gets its own mark.

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✨ What's New (453 letter tiles → 17 left)

• 227 apps drawn from symbols in their real icons: hoichoi's two exclamation marks, Sun NXT's X under the sun, myTuner's radio, Stream Locator's pin, and more.

• 219 wordmark-only apps get marks from their own logos: Where a logo is just a name (arte, NOS, KiKA, joyn, RTL, The CW), the mark uses that logo's short form and case in the pack's own single-stroke letters, plus whatever the logo hangs on the name: a plus (BET+, TF1+, M6+), a dot (france.tv), a play wedge (meWATCH), a ring or a frame (RaiPlay).

• Letter tiles (453 → 17 left): The 17 left are 11 whose logos are a character, crest, photo or someone else's mark, AnikenTV's deliberate AK tile, and 5 apps with no icon anywhere.

• 124 colours corrected: Every icon was checked against its app's real logo. YouTube TV, Dish and Shudder are red now; APKPure and iQIYI green; SYFY yellow; MX Player blue.

• 8 icons use their app's own two-colour gradient: Vibra, waipu.tv, Filimo, Lemino, OTF TV, AirPin Pro, Stream Locator, TVNZ+.

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🛠️ Updates & Fixes

• 130+ app names corrected.

• New apps: Vision+, Basis, TubPlayer, TDUK APP Killer, TDUK APP Cache Cleaner, and four TCL system apps.

• Bug Fix: With Monet as your home launcher and Projectivy installed, hitting Apply opened Monet's setup screen. It now properly routes to Projectivy again.

(Note: 971 icons in total. Banners are still the default; the Glyphs companion has the square set. Every mark is original Core monoline geometry: no vendor logos are traced or shipped).

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📦 Install / Update

• Downloader Code: 5270601 (Or just update in-app from the update bar).

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🔍 Missing an icon? Use the scanner

The app has a built-in scanner that finds every app on your TV the pack doesn't cover yet:

1. Open Core Builds Icon Pack → Settings → Scan for unmapped apps
2. It lists every launchable app on your TV with no icon yet
3. Pick one and scan the QR code with your phone

The QR opens a prefilled GitHub request with the app's name, its exact launch component, and your TV's details, which is exactly what I need to map it correctly. (If you can, attach a photo of the screen so I can see the app's current icon).

Guessing a package name gets an icon that never applies on your TV. The scanner reads the real one, so requests from it get mapped fastest!

Icon looks wrong, or applies to the wrong app? File it on GitHub:
brevityA/CoreBuildsApps → Issues

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Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.
— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

Core Builds Icon Pack v1.9.6 is now available! 🎉

This release brings a major Glyph refresh for Android TV.

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🎨 THE BIG CHANGES

• 102 apps get their own mark: Letter tiles like VI, PE, and IT are replaced by each app's own shape, redrawn in Core's line style (Viaplay, Peloton, Immich, PPSSPP, and 96 more). Nothing is traced.

• Real colours for 315 more icons: Colours are now sampled directly from each app's own launcher icon where reliable evidence was available. Eleven marks use their icon's own gradient, and six are two-tone.

• Letter tiles read like the logo: Where an app's logo is a short wordmark, the tile uses its letters and case (arte, cda, CW, TF1, yle, vrt, RAI, LFC).

• Functional family badges: The remaining 455 generic tiles get a cleaner design, with an open corner and a small badge for what the app does (TV, sport, music, tools, etc).

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🛠️ FIXES & MAPPINGS

• VidHub: Now applies on Chromecast. Its launch screen (TVSplashActivity) wasn't mapped.

• Names: 51 app names are spelled the way the apps spell them (e.g., PPSSPP, TVING, U-NEXT, ZDFtivi).

• Categories: WeatherYou and Forecast no longer show as SPORT.

• New apps: Browkorf TV coverage added, and Arena4Viewer mapped as device-unverified.

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📊 BY THE NUMBERS (v1.9.5 vs v1.9.6)

• Total Icons: 961 → 962

• Generic letter tiles: 557 → 455

• Colour taken from the app's own icon: 2 → 317

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📦 UPDATE NOW

• Downloader Code: 5270601

• Direct Icon Pack APK: Download Here

• Glyphs Companion APK: Download Here

• Release Notes: Read on GitHub

(Note: Banners stay the default, and the square Glyphs are still one toggle away in the app. The Core Builds Glyphs companion pack has also been updated for the square-icon style).

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Every icon has passed the pack's automated checks, but if something looks off on your launcher, tell me. Missing an app? Open an issue here.

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides. — Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

The last post here was v1.8.17, so this covers a lot of ground. The pack is now 943 hand-drawn icons, all flat 512px PNGs, no wordmarks, built for Android TV first.

📺 V1.9.0 — THE APP GOT REBUILT FOR TV

• Two-pane landscape UI: A fixed left rail for navigation, with the icon grid owning the right pane. Designed for a 16:9 couch, not a phone screen stretched out.

• Responsive physical sizing: The layout now scales from the real panel width at runtime, so the UI is the same actual size on a 720p stick and a 4K TV. No more giant-on-one-box, tiny-on-another.

• Search fixes: Fixed dead no-results buttons in the Pixel Neon fork's search.

🩹 V1.9.1 — HOTFIX

• Pressing an unmapped app in the QR auditor crashed the screen on v1.9.0. Fixed — if you hit a black screen in the auditor, update.

🛠️ NEW SINCE V1.8.17

• QR Icon Auditor: (Settings → HELP → Scan for unmapped apps). It checks your actual installed apps against the pack. Anything missing shows a QR code on your TV — scan it with your phone, and it opens a pre-filled icon request on GitHub.

• Icon Inspector: Press any icon for its details and every app it covers, export the full 512px PNG, or launch the app directly from there.

• Suite Hub: Install state + Downloader codes for the rest of the Core Builds suite (Line, Shift, Doctor) on one screen.

• Alphabet Skips: Channel Up/Down buttons jump whole letter groups in the grid.

• Search Fixes: The keyboard now follows the field, the cursor no longer gets stolen mid-typing, and the remote's Search key actually searches.

• Asset & Content Updates: Settings/About screens, brandmark badge filter, Projectivy internal cards + input marks, two new 4K wallpaper series (retrowave + AMOLED).

• Icon Additions/Redraws: Artemis, Pluto TV, Tubi, LocalSend, Fandango at Home, Hi Browser, BitTV, Vidio, GeForce Now, and more.

📦 INSTALL / UPDATE

• Downloader code: 5270601

• Direct APK: https://github.com/brevityA/CoreBuildsApps/releases/tag/v1.9.1

(One-tap apply works for Projectivy, AT4K, Android TV's stock home, Nova, Lawnchair and other ADW-style launchers).

Missing an icon? Use the QR auditor in-app, or just open a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/brevityA/CoreBuildsApps/issues/new?template=1.new_icon_request.yml

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides. — Brevity

Hey folks 👋

Last time I showcased this project, it was v1.7.2. Today, we hit v1.8.17.

The total icon count only went up by ten, but that's not the story here. The real milestone: 276 letter tiles have been completely rebuilt into bespoke custom marks, Monet Launcher finally got a wallpaper path that actually works, and the entire app has been hardened for the TV remote.

Here is a look at the glow-up.

🎨 The Pivot to Bespoke Art

At the time of my last post, 824 of the 921 icons in this pack were just a letter in a box. It was the metric I was least proud of. Over the last few weeks, we executed a massive logo-fidelity audit to change that.

We rebuilt 276 icons in the pack's own rounded monoline grammar — 32px strokes, one flat accent, transparent interiors, and zero solid vendor slabs.

• Logo-Fidelity Pass: Researched brand geometry for Netflix, Amazon, BBC iPlayer, Kayo, TIDAL, and the long tail of regional VODs.
• Broadcasters & Utilities: Al Jazeera, France 24, CNBC, plus 58 utilities (debrid clients, network tools, launchers). Utilities are drawn by what they do — a network tool reads as a node graph with a pulse, even if nobody has heard of it.
• Projectivy-Optimized: 36 glyphs were fully redrawn to a 32px minimum counter so they don't collapse into a solid rectangle on a 48px TV tile.

(We are now at 41% bespoke art, up from 10%. The remaining letter-tile tail is a programme, not a sprint — but it is moving in one direction only).

🆕 10 Brand-New Icons

Stremize · Xbox · Nintendo Switch · PlayStation · HDMI Source · NoBuffr · WeatherBug · Core Doctor · Core Line · Core Shift

Note: The console marks also map the companion apps you keep beside the box (Xbox Game Pass, PS Remote Play, Nintendo Switch Online). HDMI Source maps Projectivy's HDMI 1–4 tiles across both legacy and 4.0.1+ activity paths.

📤 "Send to Monet" Seamless Integration

Monet Launcher never reads the system wallpaper. I found that out by decompiling v1.0.84 — the APK contains no WallpaperManager reference at all. What it does contain is an exported share target.

So, if Monet is your HOME launcher, the wallpaper preview's primary button now reads Send to Monet. It bypasses exports and permissions, handing the file straight into Monet's background library where Monet toasts the result itself.

🖼️ Wallpapers: Curated Down to 58

We retired the old 30-wallpaper Core Mark series and brought in 18 new ones built for stronger 4K visibility (Circuit Core, Motion, and Horizons).

• Series 1–3 are authored at true 3840×2160.
• The UI now displays the five seed-palette chips extracted from the image, giving you a live preview of the exact accent colors Monet (or any tinting launcher) will pull from the wallpaper.

⚙️ Under The Hood: The Numbers & TV Hardening

• Icons: 931 (1,120 mapped components)
• De-duplication: Hashed all shipped drawables. 429 were byte-identical duplicates (one file serving seven apps). Post-audit: 34 duplicates, 902 distinct artworks.
• Raster Presence Pass: 920 icons received a night keyline so the marks hold contrast against bright wallpapers without touching the vector masters.
• TV Hardening: Fixed five UI controls that were unreachable by D-pad, added a CI focus-reachability check, and corrected TV banner/launcher resources. The pack can no longer accidentally detect itself as the home launcher.

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📦 Install / Update

• Downloader code: 5270601
• APK (Permanent URL): iconpack-release.apk
• Repo / Issue Tracker: brevityA/CoreBuildsApps

Open the app → Apply — it detects your launcher and hands off directly. Manual Apply:

• Projectivy: Settings → Appearance → Cards → Icon Pack
• Monet: Settings → Apps → Icon pack

(In-app updater checks at launch; hitting Download pulls the newest APK from GitHub and opens the installer. Tip: use a dark card background in Projectivy — the icons are drawn for night chrome #0d1117).

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.

— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

Last time I was here it was v1.7.2 (921 icons and 70 wallpapers). It is now v1.8.17. The icon count went up by ten, but that is the small number. The big one: 276 of the letter tiles became real custom marks, Monet finally got a wallpaper path that actually works, and the wallpaper collection was curated down rather than padded.

📊 The Numbers

Metric	v1.7.2 (Last Post)	v1.8.17 (Today)
Icons	921	931
Mapped components	—	1,120
Wallpapers	70	58
Icons with bespoke art	~10%	41% (386)
Distinct glyph designs	71	451
Letter tiles	824 (89%)	545 (59%)

At the time of my last post, 824 of the 921 icons were a letter in a box. That was the number I was least proud of. The remaining letter-tile tail is a programme, not a sprint — but it's moving in one direction only.

🆕 10 Brand-New Icons

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Stremize · Xbox · Nintendo Switch · PlayStation · HDMI Source · NoBuffr · WeatherBug · Core Doctor · Core Line · Core Shift

The console marks also map the companion apps users keep beside the box (Xbox Game Pass, PS Remote Play + PlayStation App, Nintendo Switch Online) for manual theming. HDMI Source themes Projectivy's SourceHDMI1–SourceHDMI4 tiles on both the legacy and the 4.0.1+ activity paths, so it themes on old and new launcher builds alike. Binge, Kayo, and Launcher Manager also picked up platform/package mappings in this release.

🎨 276 Letter Tiles Became Bespoke Marks

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Four waves since the last post:

• v1.8.0 (Logo-fidelity audit): 203 icons got researched brand geometry (Netflix, Amazon, BBC iPlayer, Kayo, MUBI, TIDAL, Netflix's neighbours, and the long tail of regional VOD).
• v1.8.8: 18 brand constructions rebuilt in the pack's own rounded monoline grammar (32px strokes, one accent, transparent interiors, no solid vendor slabs).
• v1.8.13 (Broadcasters): Al Jazeera, France 24, CBC Gem, CNBC, Wholphin, SBS On Demand, Streamflix (and MGM+ rebuilt as a film-reel mark).
• v1.8.14 (Utilities): 56 new marks covering 58 apps in the categories this pack's users actually run: debrid clients, players, launchers, browsers, file, and network tools. Utilities are drawn by what they do — a network tool reads as a node graph with a pulse, even if nobody has heard of it.

Also fixed in the v1.8.14 audit:

• 74 monograms showed a letter the app name doesn't contain: (e.g., Corridor showed W, Crave showed B). 72 repointed.
• 30 marks collapsed at a 48px Projectivy tile: MUBI lost all seven counters and read as a solid rectangle. 36 glyph shapes redrawn to a 32px minimum counter.
• De-duplication: Hashed all 926 shipped drawables. 429 were byte-identical duplicates (one file served seven apps). Post-audit: 34 duplicates, 902 distinct artworks.
• Raster presence pass: 920 icons received a night keyline so marks hold against a bright wallpaper without touching the vector masters.
• Palette corrections: 32 catalog brand colours that were simply wrong (cycled palette slots) were corrected with provenance on every entry.

📤 Send to Monet (v1.8.15)

Monet Launcher never reads the system wallpaper — I found that by decompiling v1.0.84 rather than trusting the Play listing. The APK contains no WallpaperManager reference at all. What it does contain is an exported share target that copies an image into Monet's own background library.

So when Monet is your HOME launcher, the wallpaper preview's primary button now reads Send to Monet and hands the file straight over — no permissions, no export first, Monet toasts the result itself. The export screen adds Send N to Monet, which puts a whole selection into Monet → Settings → Background → Gallery in one action.

Icon apply to Monet stays manual, but the in-app hint now names the correct path: Settings → Apps → Icon pack.

🖼️ Wallpapers: 70 → 58 (On Purpose)

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The 30-wallpaper "Core Mark" series was retired in v1.8.6 and replaced by ten lit-circuit Circuit Core wallpapers; v1.8.9 then added four Motion and four Horizons rebuilt for stronger 4K visibility. 18 new, 30 retired, 58 left — four active series, all curated.

• Series 1–3 are authored at 3840×2160; Series 6 is honestly labelled 1376×768 (it's JPEG sources — I'm not upsampling to make a false 4K claim).
• Full images download on demand; only thumbnails are bundled.
• The preview now shows the five seed-palette chips extracted from the image — a live preview of what Monet or any tinting launcher will pick up after Set.

🖥️ Android TV Hardening & The Pack's Badge

• Navigation: Five controls were unreachable by D-pad. All fixed, plus a focus-reachability check in CI that flags this whole bug class. Correctly sized TV banner and launcher resources, focus restoration, TV typography.
• Launcher Detection: Fixed so the pack can't detect itself as the launcher. (FLauncher apply support removed, it doesn't support icon packs).
• New in-app filters: Core Builds, Remotes, Tracking.
• Pack Badge (v1.8.16/17): The launcher icon stopped being a brand scene and became a pack icon: a rounded tile holding a 2×2 grid of marks, drawn to the catalog's own monoline grammar — 32/26.2 rounded strokes, one accent, no fills, transparent ground.

📦 Install / Update

• Downloader code: 5270601
• APK (Permanent URL): iconpack-release.apk
• Repo: brevityA/CoreBuildsApps

Open the app → Apply — it detects your launcher and hands off directly. Or manual: Projectivy: Settings → Appearance → Cards → Icon Pack | Monet: Settings → Apps → Icon pack

(In-app updater checks at launch; Download pulls the newest APK from GitHub and opens the installer. Tip: use a dark card background in Projectivy — the icons are drawn for night chrome #0d1117).

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.

— Brevity

Just found Monet 2 days ago, and already satisfied with my setup. Thanks to 3 person for this final result :

u/Klevico (for the amazing Monet)

u/TRK88PL (for beautiful curated background subreddit)

u/Stock-Resource4629 (for the clean look icon pack)

Now the only things I need is curated anime themed wallpaper to mix with, in case anyone have reference

Hey Core Crew 👋

Quick question for the community: Which streaming app is currently driving your setup?

• WuPlay: GitHub Releases
• Nuvio: nuvio-tv.com
• Stremio: stremio.com

If you haven’t tried WuPlay yet, would you consider giving it a spin?

I’m gathering some thoughts on what features actually matter most to you day-to-day. Is it the navigation and UI, add-on compatibility, watchlists, profiles, multi-device syncing, playback quality, or something else entirely?

What do you love (or hate) about your current daily driver? Drop your feedback below.

(Note: Please keep the discussion to official sources and legally available add-ons/content).

— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

The icon pack has a new Wallpapers entry on the home screen. It opens a browser of the full Core Builds collection — 70 4K wallpapers across four series:

• 01–24 · Fieldwork: Meshes, aurora, light trails, topo, deepfield
• 25–32 · Motion: Orbitals, warp, fogbanks, slipstream
• 33–40 · Horizons: The eight semantic accent colors, each as a landscape (signal cyan, ember, Nuvio rose, labs violet, verified green, drift-watch amber, slate, void)
• 41–70 · Core Mark: New this release. The lit hex and faceted core diamond, rendered from the Brand Guide v1.0 construction constants. Six compositional groups including the receipts-voice walls.

⚙️ How It Works

• Instant grid: All 70 thumbnails are bundled (~600 KB total), so it opens and scrolls offline.
• On-demand 4K: Tap a wall for a full-screen preview. The 4K image downloads on demand (2–3 MB) with a progress label, then press Set wallpaper.
• Monet integration: Setting writes the system wallpaper. Monet redraws and re-extracts its palette from the change — the walls are cyan-dominant by design, so Core Cyan carries through directly to your tiles.
• Fire TV fallback: Because third-party wallpaper writes are blocked on Fire OS, the app saves the JPEG to Pictures/CoreBuilds and opens the system setter for you.

> Nothing downloads in the background. Nothing sets itself. The full image is cached in internal storage (12-file LRU, ~30 MB cap).

📊 The Numbers

v1.7.0 · 70 wallpapers · 921 icons · 1,095 components
17 wallpaper contract tests in CI alongside the existing 24 robustness tests and 22k catalog checks.

📥 Update & Install

• Downloader code: 5270601
• Direct APK / GitHub Release: Latest Release
• Discord Community: Core Crew Discord

Update directly from inside the app (it will prompt you), or grab iconpack-release.apk from the GitHub link above.

(The collection lives at Wallpapers/manifest.json if you want to point anything else at it. Designed for Projectivy Launcher and Monet on Android TV / Google TV).

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.

— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

The icon pack has a new Wallpapers entry on the home screen. It opens a browser of the full Core Builds collection — 70 4K wallpapers across four series:

• 01–24 · Fieldwork: Meshes, aurora, light trails, topo, deepfield
• 25–32 · Motion: Orbitals, warp, fogbanks, slipstream
• 33–40 · Horizons: The eight semantic accent colors, each as a landscape (signal cyan, ember, Nuvio rose, labs violet, verified green, drift-watch amber, slate, void)
• 41–70 · Core Mark: New this release. The lit hex and faceted core diamond, rendered from the Brand Guide v1.0 construction constants. Six compositional groups including the receipts-voice walls.

⚙️ How It Works

• Instant grid: All 70 thumbnails are bundled (~600 KB total), so it opens and scrolls offline.
• On-demand 4K: Tap a wall for a full-screen preview. The 4K image downloads on demand (2–3 MB) with a progress label, then press Set wallpaper.
• Monet integration: Setting writes the system wallpaper. Monet redraws and re-extracts its palette from the change — the walls are cyan-dominant by design, so Core Cyan carries through directly to your tiles.
• Fire TV fallback: Because third-party wallpaper writes are blocked on Fire OS, the app saves the JPEG to Pictures/CoreBuilds and opens the system setter for you.

> Nothing downloads in the background. Nothing sets itself. The full image is cached in internal storage (12-file LRU, ~30 MB cap).

📊 The Numbers

v1.7.0 · 70 wallpapers · 921 icons · 1,095 components
17 wallpaper contract tests in CI alongside the existing 24 robustness tests and 22k catalog checks.

📥 Update & Install

• Downloader code: 5270601
• Direct APK / GitHub Release: Latest Release
• Discord Community: Core Crew Discord

Update directly from inside the app (it will prompt you), or grab iconpack-release.apk from the GitHub link above.

(The collection lives at Wallpapers/manifest.json if you want to point anything else at it. Designed for Projectivy Launcher and Monet on Android TV / Google TV).

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.

— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

The icon pack has a new Wallpapers entry on the home screen. It opens a browser of the full Core Builds collection — 70 4K wallpapers across four series:

• 01–24 · Fieldwork: Meshes, aurora, light trails, topo, deepfield
• 25–32 · Motion: Orbitals, warp, fogbanks, slipstream
• 33–40 · Horizons: The eight semantic accent colors, each as a landscape (signal cyan, ember, Nuvio rose, labs violet, verified green, drift-watch amber, slate, void)
• 41–70 · Core Mark: New this release. The lit hex and faceted core diamond, rendered from the Brand Guide v1.0 construction constants. Six compositional groups including the receipts-voice walls.

⚙️ How It Works

• Instant grid: All 70 thumbnails are bundled (~600 KB total), so it opens and scrolls offline.
• On-demand 4K: Tap a wall for a full-screen preview. The 4K image downloads on demand (~2–3 MB) with a progress label, then press Set wallpaper.
• Monet integration: Setting writes the system wallpaper. Monet redraws and re-extracts its palette from the change — the walls are cyan-dominant by design, so Core Cyan carries through directly to your Projectivy tiles.
• Fire TV fallback: Because third-party wallpaper writes are blocked on Fire OS, the app saves the JPEG to Pictures/CoreBuilds and opens the system setter for you (you can also set the saved image manually inside Projectivy settings).

> Nothing downloads in the background. Nothing sets itself. The full image is cached in internal storage (12-file LRU, ~30 MB cap).

📊 The Numbers

v1.7.0 · 70 wallpapers · 921 icons · 1,095 components
17 wallpaper contract tests in CI alongside the existing 24 robustness tests and 22k catalog checks.

📥 Update & Install

• Downloader code: 5270601
• Direct APK / GitHub Release: Latest Release
• Discord Community: Core Crew Discord

Update directly from inside the app (it will prompt you), or grab iconpack-release.apk from the GitHub link above.

(The collection lives at Wallpapers/manifest.json if you want to point anything else at it. Designed perfectly for Projectivy Launcher on Android TV / Google TV).

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.

— Brevity