Cleanyourtv App v0.2.0

The first public release of Clean Your TV app, a community-built phone app for Clean Your TV. Anyone can now clean up an Android TV, Google TV or Fire TV from an Android phone: no laptop, no coding agent, no cables. The app switches off adverts, tracking and preloaded apps, installs the calm Clean Your TV home screen with a dock of the apps you use, shows its progress on the TV, and keeps a restore point so every change can be put back.

Highlights

• 131 community tested TV profiles from 46 brands, plus a careful brand fallback for models nobody has profiled yet.
• Launcher 2.5 (upstream v2.5.0): edit the dock from the remote, rows and wallpaper in Launcher settings, and more. A dock changed on the TV survives a new look from the phone.
• A plan first. See what will be switched off and what is kept; Customise shows every command in order before it runs.
• Restore point and undo, one app or everything, plus a restore copy with plain scripts that work from any computer with adb.
• A watchdog on the TV puts its own home screen back if the phone does not confirm the new one within 150 seconds.
• Stricter safety: the app never switches off what drives the HDMI and tuner inputs, accessibility or the remote, and on TVs where switching the home screen is known to cause trouble (Chromecast with Google TV, the Google TV Streamer, some Kalley and PRISM+ sets, TVs whose setup wizard must stay on) it does the clean-up only and says why.
• No accounts, no analytics; internet only to GitHub, and only when you ask.

Full list of changes: CHANGELOG.md.

Install

Download cleanyourtv-0.2.0.apk below and open it on an Android 9 or newer phone with a screen lock. The phone and the TV need to be on the same Wi-Fi.

Verify

• SHA-256: b00e5ee22cbe7f00c9d2dd7105c9bfd9e1a2de5aa2385953b6bf3ba82e4c9145
• Signer certificate SHA-256: eaf7af3867bb29ff4bb038854842c93f42ffe4198a087e611cb18f925201cd65 (apksigner verify --print-certs cleanyourtv-0.2.0.apk)
• Reproducible: the unsigned build is 9d10f5bebcfedbbd940d33c44aece4d6f23783a2e355edd16a612355c0b64cf4, the same from two clean builds; the release workflow builds it again from this tag on GitHub Actions, and scripts/verify-release.sh checks that this APK is that build plus a signature.
• Commit 009bdf4, upstream launcher v2.5.0 (9071ec8).

Credits

The home screen is the Clean Your TV launcher by Gathin, and the TV profiles come from its community contributors' lists. Each profile names who tested it.