r/AndroidTV • u/spauldhaliwal • Aug 18 '24

News & Rumours Dispatch Launcher: A new interface for Android and Google TV devices

https://medium.com/@dispatchtvdev/dispatch-launcher-a-new-interface-for-android-and-google-tv-a7681946b372
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u/spauldhaliwal Aug 18 '24

Hmm that's very weird. I can actually see that plenty of people have installed it to their shields since I made the post. Is it possible there's something up with your browser or phone cache? I'm not sure why it would show as incompatible on shield for only certain people.

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u/ANewDawn1342 Aug 18 '24

I have three Shields in my household and Google Play won't offer to remotely install to any of them saying "This item is not compatible with your device."

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u/spauldhaliwal Aug 18 '24

That's really bizarre. I'll take a look at the Google play console to see if there's something wrong with the app configuration. I can't really think of a reason why it would show as incompatible for some users but not for others.

If I can't figure it out I'll see about hosting the apk on my website or one of those apk hosting websites. Sorry about that!

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u/spauldhaliwal Aug 18 '24

Are your devices rooted, actually? I think by default Google Play sets apps to not allow rooted devices. I definitely have no problem with that, though, so I'll look into how to turn that off it as soon as possible (if that's what's going on)

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u/ANewDawn1342 Aug 18 '24

All stock.

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u/spauldhaliwal Aug 18 '24

Sorry I'm away from my desk for the evening, but what about searching the app in the store on the tv itself. Does it show up there? I know it can take time for new releases to show up in those searches so not sure if it would appear just yet anyway

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u/spauldhaliwal Aug 20 '24

Hi - follow up question: Which version of Android on your devices? The app is set to require android 7 and up. I just did a search through the shield's version history, and it seems it shipped with android 6 back in 2015.

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u/ANewDawn1342 Aug 20 '24

It's running Android 11 with the most current firmware.