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AerioTV 0.5.0

A big release: a new media center on both the phone and the TV, Google Cast, and a much faster launch.

Media center

Movies and TV Shows replace On Demand on phone and tablet, and the DVR tab becomes a media center of its own.
Every media tab shares one layout: hero art at the top, a Continue Watching deck, shelves of your library, and a poster grid with an alphabet rail down the edge.
Search opens in place and matches titles and cast, with provider pills and ratings in the results.
Detail pages for movies and series match the Apple TV and iPhone layouts, with a Related strip, cast and crew, and a Play button that resumes the right episode.
Watchlist decks, sort and filter, and a native Filter page on the TV.
Pull to refresh on the Movies and Series grids.
Favorites is now a pinned group at the front of Live TV instead of a separate tab.
Artwork comes from TMDB when you add a key, and is cached so it loads instantly next time.

Cast live TV to a Chromecast, or hand off to an Android TV running AerioTV so the TV plays the stream itself.
Surround sound is passed straight through to receivers that can decode it, and stereo is used where it cannot.
Casting and the AerioTV Remote share one card above the tab bar. Tap it for the full controls, including 30 second skips.
The cast picker lists AerioTV on TV devices in their own section.
Changing channels while casting loads the new channel cleanly instead of mixing it with the old one.
On the remote card, X stops the TV and closes it, while Disconnect leaves the TV playing.

Launch paints the guide first and restores your library in the background, so the app is usable sooner after a cold start.
The guide, on demand library and DVR all read from cache first and refresh quietly behind you.
The guide keeps a rolling cache sized to your playlist's Guide Days setting.
Old catch-up and guide data beyond reach is pruned instead of piling up.
Library lists are built off the main thread, and release builds are smaller and optimized.

AerioTV learns how much buffer a bursty channel needs and applies it the next time you tune in.
Live channels that arrive in bursts now rebuild a bigger buffer after a stall instead of stalling again.
When a stream goes silent on tune in, the app moves to another stream instead of waiting.
A busy server's own reason is shown, and the app waits exactly as long as the server asks before retrying.
A loading detail line under the spinner tells you what the app is waiting on.
Recovery from a decoder failure no longer needs a restart.
What's New sheet no longer bounces when scrolled to the end.
Audio fixes for streams that report their channel layout incorrectly.

Tap the clock to snap back to now, or hold it to jump to another day and time, up to two weeks ahead on a current server.
Catch-up badges on individual programs, and a favorite star on the channel rail.
A group drawer that opens on the group you are in, dims the screen behind it, and keeps focus inside.
Cleaner cell dividers, smoother timeline panning, and a long press on a program or channel opens a bottom sheet of actions.

The tab bar collapses into a small pill in the bottom corner as you scroll, instead of disappearing.
The Control a TV button sits beside it in the same shape.
Card decks follow your finger and spring back, and a swiped card travels to the back of the stack.
The tab bar centers itself on wide windows, and the navigation bar stays put on foldables.
Live TV rows, headers and group drawer match the iPhone layout.

Player controls are icon circles with the caption under the focused one, a resolution and frame rate badge, and chrome that hides three seconds after your last action.
Media pages scroll and return focus the way the Apple TV does.
Record from Now, Record Program and Program Info sheets rebuilt, including series recording rules.
A mini player that sits clear of the tab bar, and remote hint strips that follow your remote map.

Granular account permissions and the multi-day guide window from Dispatcharr 0.30.
Watchlist syncs across your devices and is scoped to the server it came from.
A What's New sheet on the first launch after an update. You can reopen it any time by tapping the App Version row in Settings.
TMDB attribution and logo across Settings, Licenses and detail pages, with a note that no TMDB data flows until you add your own key.

GitHub build: the app updates itself. Open Settings and check for updates, or wait for the prompt on the next launch.
Play Store build: it arrives through the Play Store as a normal update. The Play build has no in-app updater.
Switching between the two builds means uninstalling the other one first, because they are signed differently.