ProdigyV21/ARVIO v1.9.94

ARVIO v1.9.94

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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