TV Bro: browser for android-based TVs

[tz-user]

TV Bro is the best browser for Android TV that I've found.

Can anyone help with video issues:
1. Cannot play a video in full screen. This worked until recently but stopped working in version 1.8.6

2. Other videos cannot play because of "Remove sandbox attributes on the iframe tag".

Any advice with either problem will be appreciated.

 

[tz-user]

Hey there great app! I was wondering if anyone is aware of a way to send a URL to this app via ADB commands?

I'm trying to setup some automation that leverages this browser on Android TV

I used TV App Repo to create a shortcut to a URL.
I then used Button Mapper to assign this shortcut to a button on the TV remote.
By pressing the tv remote button, it now opens the URL directly in TV Bro.

 

[hohoxz0]

I love love love TVBro browser. I had installed and searched for many browsers for my tv before but they didn't suit me. And this TVbro is the best and satisfy me the most. I love the work good work.
Just a small problem, for the fullscreen in player, it won't go full screen. But it is okay as I didn't realise that until I accidently scrolled down then it appears it wasn't on fullscreen mode lol. But it would be much better to be on a real full screen as the black edge won't appear as my TV is slim.
Love ♡

 

[Angeluz28]

Tvbro the best web browser , Cannot play a video in full screen , please fix it .

 

[KrisDeluca]

I checked the app on my android phone too for the full-screen issue and can confirm that its not an issue from Android webview but specific to TV bro

 

[M1LL3R]

Cleaning data of TVBro and uninstalling updates of WebView worked for me to solve the full screen bug

 

[Kbm96]

Removing the webview update already works, but now I have lost the dark theme, any ideas?

 

[KrisDeluca]

When I uninstalled the Webview updates, the browser wouldn't even open for me

 

[iAmMrAwesome]

Hi all,

First off, I'm a big fan of the browser, so thanks for the great work =)

I was just wondering if there is some way to remove cookies?
I've searched the options tabs, tried clearing the tv-bro data, uninstalling the app and restarted my tv before reinstalling.
But it remembers my choice for allowing cookies regardless.

Only reason it is an issue is because I accepted all cookies on a website that now placed a chatbox below the video's, which now prevents me from putting the video in fullscreen.
I've reproduced the issue on my android phone on Chrome, and was able to fix it by not accepting all cookies so the chatbox is blocked. So I believe it's not related to the old issues with Android Webview.

 

[essorb]

I would like the following features to be added.

1. When playing media, if the screen is full, I want it to work with the arrow buttons on the keyboard, not the mouse.

2. I want to adjust the screen size of the webpage.

thank you

 

[michaelotkk]

Hello, I have a problem with full screen mode, the content is simply not visible in that mode, I already tried on several devices and it is the same
Video explicativo

 

[hellfish]

Is there a way to backup bookmarks?

 

[rntbarbosa]

On fire tv lite (sheldon), i can't download .apk files.
I can download other extensions like: exe and zip.

I tried it on tv bro github.

 

[trueFedeX]

>michaelotkk
is known problem introduced with system webview update. Currently no workaround except removing webview updates from system apps settings. I currently investigating option to porting TV Bro to GeckoView. This can help with many other issues with WebView.

>hellfish
Sorry, currently no, but this feature in future planns

>rntbarbosa
This is also problem with WebView and its independent update process. Also seems Amazon making changes to WebView to prevent downloading. Some time ago I already implemented workaround for this, but seems there some another restriction applied in some other WebView update. This will also be fixed if the TV BRo switches to GecoView API.