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* Widget for home screen
* Intent sending handlers
* CGI / Callable executables experimental support (unfortunately, for now it turned out to be useless on Android without root)
* Basic CORS support
* Logs: added network usage chart, fixed inverted logs order issue
* Custom text charset setting added
* Fixed broken autoshutdown timeout for longer timeouts
* Ability to transfer a PLUS license purchased from Google Play to a marketless version
* Dropped support of Android 5.x-6.x, reduced apk size

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Hello, dear TV Bro users.

Thank you for your feedbacks and problem reports. To answer your question, yes, updates are planned. However, I have another project as a priority right now (SHTTPS). There's a good chance I'll return to TV Bro within the next month, but I doubt I'll be able to devote much time to it right away. When that happens, I'll be focusing on the numerous tickets in the GitHub issue tracker when choosing tasks. I also have my own redesign ideas. There's an unfinished and partially failed (due to unstable API) feature for text selection and changing cursor behavior. And of course, I'll need to review the crash logs.

I also use TV Bro quite often himself on my home Android TV. But its current functionality is generally sufficient for me. Regarding the project, there are a few important things that don't make me too worried about it.

First, its dependencies – the core of any browser is a web rendering engine. Although TV Bro can use WebView or Gecko, neither of these projects is targeted at the Android TV platform. This often causes things to break, and many users assume the browser is the culprit. But I have no control over this, and it's annoying.
The second issue is the performance of Android TV devices. When I was developing the first versions of TV Bro in 2015, the platform was just emerging, and there were hopes that manufacturers would release devices with performance comparable to game consoles or at least comparable to modern phones. I still use a 2015 Nvidia Shield, and this 11-year-old device seems to be able to outperform almost any modern Android TV device. But most manufacturers have started releasing utter garbage, only suitable for streaming media content, which doesn't require a powerful CPU, a lot of RAM, or a GPU. But the modern web requires all of that!

These two things mean to me that TV Bro will never be perfect – neither in performance nor in stability. It's simply a Workaround-style utility to somehow run the web on a device not designed for the web. It's good that TV Bro and similar programs exist (I know about forks and cool competitors), and I'll continue to try to update it at least occasionally and fix the most obvious issues, but I don't plan to focus too much on it. I'll probably add a link to the donation page (this one) to the "About" section in the next update – maybe that will motivate me to update the app more often.