After a ton of testing and feedback from this community, Aerial TV is officially live on Google Play!! 

Huge thank you again to everyone who has given the app a try, provided feedback & suggestions!

What made it into the launch version:

• Easy Setup across devices: Set up on your phone, scan a QR on the TV. No more remote-typing marathons.
• Total Sync: Your playlists, favorites, and "Continue Watching" progress follow you across iOS, Apple TV, and Android.
• Multiview: Watch up to 4 streams at once on the big screen.
• Trakt & OpenSubtitles: Scrobbling and subtitle search are built-in.
• Skip the Intro: we’re busy people, and want more binge time!
• Catchup: "Watch from Start" support for live programs.
• Recording: Schedule to internal storage, USB, or SMB/NAS.
• Theming: Don’t like browny/orange? Give one of the other themes a try :)
• Family Groups: One setup for the whole house, generous device limits on individual too.

 

Coming next:

• Support for device without Google Play: Aiming to share a Downloader code this week (users will need to sign in to Cloud Sync with an account that has valid Apple or Google Play subscription)

Google play link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jet27labs.aerialtv  (If you like the app, would be great if you could leave a review :))

You can find the links for all platforms here: https://aerialtv.app/

Disclaimer: Just a reminder that Aerial TV is a player only—you supply your own playlist.

After a ton of testing and feedback from this community, Aerial TV is officially live on Google Play!! 

Huge thank you again to everyone who has given the app a try, provided feedback & suggestions!

What made it into the launch version:

• Easy Setup across devices: Set up on your phone, scan a QR on the TV. No more remote-typing marathons.
• Total Sync: Your playlists, favorites, and "Continue Watching" progress follow you across iOS, Apple TV, and Android.
• Multiview: Watch up to 4 streams at once on the big screen.
• Trakt & OpenSubtitles: Scrobbling and subtitle search are built-in.
• Skip the Intro: we’re busy people, and want more binge time!
• Catchup: "Watch from Start" support for live programs.
• Recording: Schedule to internal storage, USB, or SMB/NAS.
• Theming: Don’t like browny/orange? Give one of the other themes a try :)
• Family Groups: One setup for the whole house, generous device limits on individual too.

 

Coming next:

• Support for device without Google Play: Aiming to share a Downloader code this week (users will need to sign in to an account with valid Apple or Google Play subscription)

Google play link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jet27labs.aerialtv  (If you like the app, would be great if you could leave a review :))

You can find the links for all platforms here: https://aerialtv.app/

Disclaimer: Just a reminder that Aerial TV is a player only—you supply your own playlist.

Hey everyone,

I've been head-down for the last couple of weeks working on some of the big features you’ve been asking for.

Here’s what I’ve been up to, and available in the beta:

• Multiview: finally here! Watch multiple live tv streams at same time
• Theming: - You can now pick from five accent presets (Ocean, Forest, Crimson, etc.). It’s not just a logo change—it swaps out every focus ring, progress bar, and highlight across the entire UI to match your style.
• Catchup Support: I’ve implemented full navigation for Catchup programs. You can now click on past programs in the guide to start a time-shifted stream.
• Smarter Sorting: I finally fixed the sorting logic—"Channel 10" no longer comes before "Channel 2."
• SMB Reliability: I've fixed the error handling around SMB  shares to make recording and backups much more stable.
• EPG Speed: Optimized the guide grid so it doesn't stutter on lower-spec TV boxes.
• Yet more sync fixes - this should be much more reliable now
• Keyboard display bug - made sure keyboard dismisses when it should
• Home page - you can choose order and hide home page items

Thanks again to everyone who's been sending in bug reports and suggestions. Fingers crossed, feels like is getting closer to a launch version

Next up: 

• still working on support for devices without Google play
• more trending categories
• separating content by playlist more easily
• filtering trending content just for items available from your provider

Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jet27labs.aerialtv 

Check out the Website: https://aerialtv.app

Hey everyone,

I've been head-down for the last couple of weeks working on some of the big features you’ve been asking for.

Here’s what I’ve been up to, and available in the beta (v 1.0.25):

• Multiview: finally here! Watch multiple live tv streams at same time
• Theming: - You can now pick from five accent presets (Ocean, Forest, Crimson, etc.). It’s not just a logo change—it swaps out every focus ring, progress bar, and highlight across the entire UI to match your style.
• Catchup Support: I’ve implemented full navigation for Catchup programs. You can now click on past programs in the guide to start a time-shifted stream.
• Smarter Sorting: I finally fixed the sorting logic—"Channel 10" no longer comes before "Channel 2."
• SMB Reliability: I've fixed the error handling around SMB  shares to make recording and backups much more stable.
• EPG Speed: Optimized the guide grid so it doesn't stutter on lower-spec TV boxes.
• Yet more sync fixes - this should be much more reliable now
• Keyboard display bug - made sure keyboard dismisses when it should
• Home page - you can choose order and hide home page items

Thanks again to everyone who's been sending in bug reports and suggestions. Fingers crossed, feels like is getting closer to a launch version

Next up:

• still working on support for devices without Google play
• more trending categories
• separating content by playlist more easily
• filtering trending content just for items available from your provider

Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jet27labs.aerialtv 

Check out the Website: https://aerialtv.app

Hey Everyone - just a quick update to let you know pushed a new version of AerialTV (v1.0.30) onto TestFlight, and it’s packed with some of the most requested features from the community - working hard to make the app feel more personal and performant across iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV.

Here is what’s new:

🎨 Personalize Your Experience

• Dynamic Theme System: You can now choose your own accent color! Whether you prefer Sienna, Ocean, Emerald, Violet, or Ruby, you can now skin the app to match your style. Will build on this in future so you can pick your own colours.
• Homepage customization: choose which sections you want to see and the order
• Refined tvOS Interface: The Apple TV player has been redesigned with a sleeker "pill" style control set and explicit skip duration labels (30s) so you know exactly how far you're jumping.

📺 Enhanced Viewing Features

• Multiview: Watch multiple channels simultaneously (perfect for sports weekends!).
• Quick surf menu: just press down whilst watching a live channel to pull up a quick channels menu
• Catchup Guide UI: We’ve overhauled the Catchup interface. It’s now much easier to browse and play back past broadcasts directly from your guide.
• Better Organization: Improved channel grouping and sorting logic to handle even the largest playlists with ease. Groups 4K, UHD, FHD, HD channel variants into one which you can then switch between easily in the player.

⚡ Speed & Stability

• Playlist loading: Rebuilt the Xtream API parser from the ground up. Loading should be significantly faster, and the EPG more stable
• Landscape UI Improvements: rejigged a few of the screens that didn't work so well in landscape mode on iPhone, more to do on these....

👪 Family Sharing & Sync

• In app Family Sharing! You can now manage your group, invite members, and keep your settings/favorites in sync across all family devices.
• Syncing across platforms should be much more reliable now for both family members and individuals.

AerialTV is now localized in over 20+ languages, making it easier for everyone to enjoy.

As always, thanks for the feedback and support. If you have any feature requests or run into any bugs, let me know in the comments!

Check out the website for Testflight/beta signup: https://aerialtv.app/

First: thank you for your patience, support, and honest feedback over the past couple of weeks, as solo dev I’ve been humbled by how generous people have been, spending time to try the app out and provide feedback - this has directly shaped what items have worked over the last 2 weeks since the Android closed beta started.

Mostly I’ve been focused on stability, sync, and quality-of-life improvements across devices. Here’s what’s been improved:

• Better cross-device sync reliability (playlists, favorites, and continue watching)
• Faster and more reliable playlist loading/validation - better ordering and management of categories
• More customisation options eg. Reorder sections on Home Screen, choose categories as vertical or horizontal menus
• Improved coverage for Skip the Intro (lots more coming in this space)
• TV Guide improvements including better channel grouping, quick channel change, guide overlay with video playing in background
• Better error handling during provider setup and login flows
• Recording improvements (series/repeat behavior + storage handling)
• In-App Family group management across Apple & Android devices*
• Player stability improvements and Chromecast support 
• LOTS of bug fixes (thanks for folks reporting those)

Pleased to announce that Android Open Beta Is now Live (so no more messing around with Google groups!) you can download from Google Play for Android TV, phones, and tablets.

If you want to join and help test:

• Play Store through browser: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.jet27labs.aerialtv
• Play Store on android device: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jet27labs.aerialtv

More details/screenshots: https://aerialtv.app/

Next up :

• Support for non Google Play devices eg. Amazon, etc 
• Multiview 
• Audio offset
• Much greater Skip the intro coverage

Look forward to your feedback, still no discord - please just reply here or on private chat. 

Thanks again

*the in-app family sharing across Android/Apple is waiting on App Review on Apple side, so please bear with me if looking to use that (you can still achieve this if using same cloud sign-in account in both Apple & Android)

First: thank you for your patience, support, and honest feedback over the past couple of weeks, as solo dev I’ve been humbled by how generous people have been, spending time to try the app out and provide feedback - this has directly shaped what items have worked over the last 2 weeks since the Android closed beta started.

Mostly I’ve been focused on stability, sync, and quality-of-life improvements across devices. Here’s what’s been improved:

• Better cross-device sync reliability (playlists, favorites, and continue watching)
• Faster and more reliable playlist loading/validation - better ordering and management of categories
• More customisation options eg. Reorder sections on Home Screen, choose categories as vertical or horizontal menus
• Improved coverage for Skip the Intro (lots more coming in this space)
• TV Guide improvements including better channel grouping, quick channel change, guide overlay with video playing in background
• Better error handling during provider setup and login flows
• Recording improvements (series/repeat behavior + storage handling)
• In-App Family group management across Apple & Android devices*
• Player stability improvements and Chromecast support 
• LOTS of bug fixes (thanks for folks reporting those)

Pleased to announce that Android Open Beta Is now Live (so no more messing around with Google groups!) you can download from Google Play for Android TV, phones, and tablets.

If you want to join and help test:

• Play Store through browser: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.jet27labs.aerialtv
• Play Store on android device: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jet27labs.aerialtv

More details/screenshots: https://aerialtv.app/

Next up :

• Support for non Google Play devices eg. Amazon, etc 
• Multiview 
• Audio offset
• Much greater Skip the intro coverage

Look forward to your feedback, still no discord - please just reply here or on private chat. 

Thanks again

*the in-app family sharing across Android/Apple is waiting on App Review on Apple side, so please bear with me if looking to use that (you can still achieve this if using same cloud sign-in account in both Apple & Android)