Live categories and channels were fetched once per app session and kept
in memory until the process died, so a TV box left running never picked
up provider changes.
- Live tab: pull-to-refresh plus a remote-friendly refresh button, and an
automatic refetch when the app returns to the foreground after 4 hours.
- Settings: the "refresh cache" entry was a no-op delay; it now forces a
reload of live channels, movies, series and EPG.
- The Xtream service keeps the last non-empty live lists and serves them
when a refetch fails, so a refresh on a not-yet-connected network does
not blank the screen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Theme — replace the near-black "Warm Cinema" palette with a neutral
"Apple Glass Gray" system: graphite surfaces (#26262C base, lighter
containers), Apple-white text, Apple system blue accent, white glass
borders/highlights. Noticeably less dark overall; light theme moves
from kraft paper to iOS light gray. All AppColors names kept so no
call site changes.
Player latency — live buffering drops from 8s cache / 10s readahead /
150MB to 3s / 5s / 60MB, keeping enough headroom for network jitter
while staying much closer to the live edge.
Audio — the forced audio filter chain
(af=lavrresample,format=channels=stereo:sample_fmts=s16) mixed FFmpeg
and mpv syntax; when it failed to init for a channel's codec, mpv
muted the stream entirely. Replaced by mpv's native
audio-channels=stereo downmix and AO-negotiated output format. Probe
caps raised (2MB/3s) so late-declared audio tracks (AAC-LATM) are
detected without slowing healthy streams.
Remote control — the player OSD now remembers the last focused button
and restores focus to it whenever the OSD reopens (arrows, OK) and
across channel switches, so one press re-zaps instead of five. On
live TV, OK with hidden controls only reopens the OSD instead of
pausing the stream.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0156exq7fejVrD3HKU3MmS8X
Porting the palette was not enough: the Warm Cinema charter only reached the
widgets that read from AppColors. Nineteen screen and widget files still painted
Apple TV values inline, so the app kept showing blue — most visibly on the
selected navigation pill.
Swept out:
- 0xFF0A84FF (Apple blue) on the selected nav pill, category card icons and the
"add playlist" button
- 0xFF4FC3F7 and 0xFF1565C0 in the player overlays
- Colors.blueAccent / Colors.blue in dialogs
- Apple greys 1C1C1E / 2C2C2E / 3A3A3C / 8E8E93 -> warm charcoals
- 128 Colors.white* -> the onSurfaceNN cream ladder (a pure white on a warm
ground reads blue, which is the charter's whole point)
- Colors.red / green / amber / yellow / grey* -> error, success, ratingGold,
outlineVariant
- pure black ink on light fills -> onPrimaryFixed, a warm near-black
- the white focus glow -> an ember glow
Deliberately left true black: the video surface backgrounds and the scrims over
posters and video, where a warm tint would clash with the picture.
Adds the onPrimaryFixed / primaryFixed / onSurface70 tokens the sweep needed.
Verified: no Material or Apple colour literal remains outside lib/core/theme;
flutter analyze reports no errors; 19/19 tests pass; release APK builds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Align the Android app with xtremflow on three fronts.
EPG: add XmltvService, a streaming XMLTV parser (gunzip-aware, indexed to a
-3h/+18h window, JSON disk cache with a 6h TTL). XtreamServiceMobile now falls
back through the provider's xmltv.php, a user-supplied URL, then a community
guide whenever get_short_epg returns nothing. Channels are matched on
epg_channel_id first, then on a normalized name (accents, HD/FHD/4K suffixes,
"FR:" and "|FR|" prefixes). A streamId -> Channel index populated by
getLiveChannels supplies those keys, so no getShortEPG call site changed.
EPG requests are also funnelled through a 3-slot semaphore, as in xtremflow:
a 30-tile grid used to fire 30 parallel player_api.php calls, which rate-limited
panels answered with errors, emptying the guide for the whole screen.
Theme: port the Warm Cinema charter (ember/charcoal/cream, Fraunces + Karla)
into app_colors, app_theme and app_decorations. The 21 Apple TV colour names
already in use are kept as compatibility aliases. mobile_theme now derives from
AppTheme instead of duplicating its 390 lines.
Playback lifecycle: stop reacting to AppLifecycleState.inactive, which fires on
transient Android interruptions such as pulling down the notification shade and
was killing playback. Both engines now release on paused/hidden/detached via
_releasePlayback(): stream stopped, decoder released, timers cancelled, wakelock
dropped. An _isReleased latch keeps the watchdog and reconnect paths from
restarting a stream from the background.
Long-run stability: cancel the six player stream subscriptions on dispose, cap
demuxer-max-back-bytes at 8MB (mpv defaults to 50MiB, which combined with the
150MB readahead pushed the native heap toward an Android memory kill after a few
hours), rebuild on position only while the controls are visible, and dispose the
Lite player's focus nodes.
Startup: prewarmHost() pre-resolves DNS and opens then closes a bare TCP/TLS
socket before playback. No HTTP request is issued, so no provider connection
slot is consumed. Capped at 1.5s.
Verified: flutter analyze clean on all touched files; 19/19 tests, including a
run over a real 46MB/69802-programme dump (517 channels indexed in 1.1s, 5/5
name probes matched); flutter build apk --release succeeds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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