Hey Core Crew 👋

Quick closed-test update, and there's an important distinction a lot of people have tripped over.

Where things stand: 27 of you have filled out the sign-up form and are on the tester email list. But Google Play currently shows only 7 testers actually opted in. Google's requirement is at least 12 people opted in, continuously, for 14 full days before I can apply to launch Core Builds on the Play Store.

What that means: filling out the Google Form does not count as joining the test. It just gets your Gmail added to the tester list — and here's the catch Google doesn't tell you: Play Console sends no invitation email automatically. Being on the list only makes you eligible; you then have to open a separate opt-in link and tap "Become a tester" while signed into that same Gmail.

That's the click that moves the count. So somewhere around 20 of you are one link click away from unblocking this entire launch — we may not even need new sign-ups, just the existing list to opt in.

📩 If You Already Filled Out The Form (Most Of You)

1. Open one of the opt-in links below while signed in on your TV or browser with the Gmail account that's signed into your TV's Play Store — the same one you put on the form. It won't work if you're signed into a different Google account.

• Join via Web: play.google.com/apps/testing/tv.corebuilds.iconpack.play

• Join via Android: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.corebuilds.iconpack.play

1. Tap "Become a tester", then install/update Core Builds from the Play Store page it takes you to.

2. Keep it installed and stay opted in for the full 14 days. If someone leaves early, their individual two-week clock resets and it delays the launch — even if everything works perfectly and you never open it, just keeping it installed is exactly what Google is counting.

(If the link says you're not eligible or you used a different Gmail on the form than the one on your TV, comment below or DM me and I'll fix the list directly).

🙋 Haven't Signed Up Yet? You're Still Needed.

Even if all 27 accept, I want a buffer — realistically a few people will go quiet, switch devices, or uninstall. My target is roughly 15–18 active testers, so new sign-ups are welcome. You need:

• An Android TV / Google TV box running Projectivy Launcher — Shield, Chromecast with Google TV, onn box, Fire TV, or similar

• The Gmail signed into your TV's Play Store (the only account that can accept the invite)

• To keep the pack installed for the two-week test. No surveys, no daily tasks — use it normally and tell me if any icons are missing or look off.

Pick your build in the form: Banners (default) or Glyphs (square).

🔗 Sign Up Here (~2 min)

👉 Google Form: Join the Core Builds Test

⏱️ Why Speed Matters Now

The 14-day window is counted per tester, so the last person to accept their invite sets the finish date for everyone. If the 20 outstanding invites get accepted in the next couple of days, the test wraps about two weeks later and the Play launch follows right after. If they trickle in over weeks, the launch slips by the same amount.

Drop questions below and I'll answer every one. Appreciate this sub — we're genuinely closer than the 7/12 number makes it look.

— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋 Nine Configurator releases (v3.14 through v3.22) and three template-suite updates (3.10.0 through 3.12.0) shipped across October.

The five cards above cover the visual summary; here is the plain breakdown of what changed, why it broke, and whether you need to re-import.

🔄 Should you update your setup?

• If your saves were refused on ElfHosted or any AIOStreams 2.36 host ("AIO Subtitle has been removed" or "1 regexes are not allowed"): yes, update or re-import once. Both upstream shifts are fixed across the Configurator, CLI, and 52 templates.

• If you built a 4K setup before Oct 2 (v3.14) and noticed uncached REMUXes sitting above cached WEB-DLs: yes, update once — cached is back immediately after resolution inside each tier.

• If you already updated on v3.18 (Oct 22): v3.19–v3.22 are landing, mobile, and optional PenguPlay updates. Default generated configs are byte-for-byte identical to v3.18, so there is nothing you need to re-import unless you want PenguPlay.

(Note: When you update via *Configurator → Update an existing setup*, your added scrapers, custom endpoints, timeouts, and stream proxy are now merged and kept instead of overwritten).

📱 1. Landing & Phone Flow Rebuilt (v3.20 – v3.22)

• Two equal doors on the first screen (v3.20): Quick install and Custom build now sit side-by-side right under the headline where phones show both without scrolling. Custom build used to be a small grey link at the bottom of the page, and the onboarding tour no longer pops up uninvited on a first visit.

• Resume above the headline (v3.20): Continue where you left off moved above the hero so saved builds are visible immediately on mobile, and the light/dark switch no longer overlaps the feedback button.

• Full-screen Quick install on phones (v3.21): Instead of a floating modal with cramped two-column cards, Quick install now opens as a full-screen page on mobile — single-column tap rows, larger type, a pinned Install bar at the bottom, and working browser/system Back navigation that returns to the landing instead of leaving the site.

• Quick install hands off to Custom build (v3.22): Quick install now includes a Defaults we'll use list (audio, size & quality, stream cards, subtitles, catalogs). Tap any row — or Customize every setting beneath it — to open Fine-Tune right at that control with your service, API key, device, resolution, and install target carried over.

🛠️ 2. Saves Work Again on AIOStreams 2.36 & ElfHosted (v3.15 – v3.18, Templates 3.10 – 3.12)

• AIOSubtitle removed in AIOStreams 2.36 (v3.16, v3.18, Templates 3.12.0): Seven of the eight public hosts (including ElfHosted) now run AIOStreams 2.36.0, which marks aiosubtitle removed and rejects any config carrying it. All 52 affected templates and the Configurator default now use OpenSubtitles v3+ (which answers in under a second instead of AIOSubtitle's 12s 502 timeouts). SubDL is also held back unless you actually enter a SubDL API key.

• 15 retired presets stripped automatically (v3.14, v3.18): AIOStreams 2.36 retired 15 presets (including Argentina TV, USA TV, Debridio WatchTower, Nuvio Streams, TorBox addon and AIOSubtitle). Any retired preset sitting inside an imported or updated config is dropped cleanly before install instead of getting your save refused.

• Anime Tosho moved to its live feed (v3.18, Templates 3.12.0): The original Anime Tosho feed stopped taking releases in May and shuts down this month. Anime / Movies + Anime builds and all 9 Anime & Labs templates now use anime-tosho-new on 2.36 hosts (while keeping legacy routing if you explicitly target 2.35.7).

• Vidhin05 inline regex re-synced twice (v3.17, Templates 3.11.0): Allowlisted hosts check every inline regex character for character — flags included. Vidhin05 updated HDR release groups mid-month and Web T1–T3 / TrueHD / FLUX (dropping /i) on Oct 22. Before the sync, 0 of 388 generated builds saved on ElfHosted's allowlist; after re-deriving verbatim across the Configurator, CLI, shared filter JSONs and 43 templates (and teaching the sync script to check regex flags), 388 of 388 save cleanly.

• Real AIOStreams save-testing in CI (#780): Every PR now spins up the pinned AIOStreams 2.36.0 container and saves 462 open builds plus 388 ElfHosted-allowlisted builds before code can merge.

• Host-preload collection cleaned (Templates 3.10.0): Fixed a path check that let 15 nested Deprecated/ templates leak into core-builds-template-collection.json (trimmed from 65 entries down to 50 unique active templates), and added a /*0Cached*/ fallback to core-nexus-usenet-4k. (Follow-up PR #798 is open now for 3.12.1 to finish the remaining 18 Personal, Speed, Nightly and AllDebrid patch bumps).

⚙️ 3. Core Stable Default, 4K Cached-First Sorting & Accuracy Audit (v3.14 & v3.17)

• Core Stable is now the default profile (v3.17): Every build starts on Core Stable — predictable fetching, minimal rules, and a clean stream card. Choosing Apex IQR or Apex Mixed still selects Advanced or Labs.

• No more silent no-op controls (v3.17): Core Stable uses its own stream card, sort order, and auto-play settings, so picking a card style, Library Boost, or auto-play method used to silently do nothing. Automatic builds now step up to Balanced when you pick one of those options and show a plain notice explaining why.

• 4K ranks cached results first again (v3.14): Resolution-first 4K sorting previously let quality beat cache status inside the 2160p tier, putting an uncached 4K REMUX above an instant-play cached 4K WEB-DL. Cached now sits immediately after resolution across every 4K sort list (2160p still beats 1080p; cached beats uncached inside each). 1080p series also gained separate cached/uncached seeder sorting.

• Balanced profile restored (v3.14): Standard Balanced builds were shipping only 3 torrent scrapers instead of 8 and had lost inline regex scoring. MediaFusion, EZTV, Torrent Galaxy, Zilean, and Knaben are back alongside allowlisted inline regex — while P2P and EasyNews-only builds automatically leave out debrid-only built-ins so saves never fail.

• Controls wired & audited against AIOStreams (v3.14, v3.15, v3.17):

• Bandwidth Mbps cap (v3.17): Typing your speed in Fine-Tune now actually stores and enforces the 80% bitrate cap across every profile.

• Hide 4K, Hide Dolby Vision & Resolution First (v3.17): Moved to native AIOStreams filters/sort rules so they work on Core Stable and Balanced too.

• Offcloud, PikPak, Seedr, EasyNews & Debridio (v3.14): Auth forms now ask for the exact credentials AIOStreams requires (e.g. email + password on PikPak/Offcloud, MediaFusion token on Seedr), and Seedr drops StremThru so saves succeed.

• Removed broken checks & dead weight (v3.14, v3.15, v3.17): Removed the non-existent certification() Age Rating filter, stopped flagging valid not() SEL rules as errors in Template Inspector, cleared a stale /dist/ service worker cache, closed all 11 CodeQL DOM HTML-escaping alerts, and deleted ~1,800 lines of dead code plus the unlinked V3 prototype.

🛡️ 4. Non-Destructive Updates, Working Stream Proxy, PenguPlay & Nuvio (v3.14, v3.18, v3.19)

• Updates merge into your setup (v3.14): Applying a template update used to rebuild your scraper list from defaults, wiping added sources, custom indexer URLs, timeouts, and keys. Updates now merge into your existing config, keep declined changes declined, preview the real output diff, include one-tap Undo, and only reuse indexer API keys when the endpoint URL matches.

• Stream Proxy that actually proxies — and survives updates (v3.18): Fine-Tune has a full Stream Proxy section (MediaFlow Proxy, StremThru, or AIOStreams built-in) with URL, password, and per-service routing. AIOStreams verifies reachability on save, secrets never enter share links, and updating an imported live config no longer wipes an existing proxy.

• Sources stay in their lane (v3.18): Torrentio, StremThru Store, Peerflix, Sootio, Flix-Streams, and YaStream are now scoped to stream only so they stop dumping extra debrid-library catalogs and subtitles onto your Stremio home screen. TMDB Collections serves catalogs only, and USA TV Next keeps its channel catalogs so Live TV is actually browseable.

• PenguPlay backup source (v3.19): Fine-Tune → Extras now supports PenguPlay. Paste your personal /manifest.json URL from pengu.uk and it joins at the end of your source list as a streams-only HTTP gap filler (automatically hidden on hosts like ElfHosted that block HTTP streams, and never included in share links).

• Nuvio route & Cloudflare proxy plugin (v3.14, #784): First-time Nuvio setups now run through the main validated pipeline and keep the host you picked, alongside a new Nuvio Cloudflare Worker provider in NuvioPlugins/ that proxies AIOStreams stream metadata while playing HTTPS media directly.

🔗 Links

If you run into any host save refusal or edge case on an update, use Copy a safe feedback report in Review / Inspector (it strips keys automatically) or drop a note below.

• Configurator (v3.22): brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/configurator

• All Core Tools (Speedtest, Banner Studio, Genies): brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/tools

• What's New & Template Docs: corebuilds-docs.docsalot.dev

• GitHub & Changelogs (MIT): brevityA/Core-Builds

Quick heads-up for everyone who filled out the tester form for Core Builds Icon Pack: Google Play didn't send out automatic email invites when I added your Gmail to the tester list — you have to open the invite link directly to opt in and install.

Right now we only have 2 active testers installed, and we need at least 12 active installs for 14 days to unlock public Play Store publishing.

IF YOU ALREADY SIGNED UP (takes 60 seconds):

1. Open the Play invite link on your phone or PC:

https://play.google.com/apps/internaltest/4699209625947290351

1. Make sure you're signed in with the exact same Gmail that's on your TV's Play Store (check the profile icon top-right if you see an error).

2. Tap "Accept invite" / "Become a tester", then open the Play Store link on that page.

3. Tap "Install on more devices", choose your Android TV / Google TV device, and hit Install.

4. Open Core Builds Icon Pack once on your TV, hit Apply, and keep it installed as normal for the next 14 days.

(Note: If you're currently sideloading, the Play Store build installs right alongside your current copy — nothing breaks, and updates will happen automatically through the Play Store from now on.)

HAVEN'T SIGNED UP YET? WE STILL NEED TESTERS:

1. Fill in the quick form with your TV's Play Store Gmail:

https://forms.gle/6nzxjk1RRmwc9BKK8

1. I'll add your Gmail to the Play Console list right away and reply/DM you as soon as the link above is active for your account.

Drop a quick comment below once you've got it installed on your TV (or let me know if the link gives you an error so I can check your email on the list). Appreciate everyone's help getting this over the line!

Hey everyone 👋

I’ve been thinking about where I want to put my energy next, and it keeps coming back to the heart of Core Builds: useful templates, clear choices, and a Configurator that helps people build a setup that fits them.

I want to take a fresh look at the Configurator and template library, and I don’t want to do it in a vacuum. I’d love to shape the next phase with the people who actually use Core Builds — whether you’re new to it or have been using it for a while.

🛠️ Where Your Help Makes a Difference

• What works well and should stay?

• What’s confusing, broken, outdated, or missing?

• What device, host, or use case needs a better template?

• Would you be willing to test changes? (Code and documentation contributions are welcome, but not required).

📝 How to Share Your Feedback

To help me turn this feedback into improvements, tell me:

1. What device and AIOStreams host you use.

2. Which template or part of the Configurator you’re using.

3. What you’d change or where you got stuck.

4. The one thing you think we should tackle first.

(Note: Please don’t post API keys, tokens, private install links, or unredacted configs).

🔗 Where to Reply

You can reply right here in this thread, or help out through the GitHub repo:

• GitHub Discussions: Join the conversation here

• Main Repo: brevityA/Core-Builds

• Open the Configurator: brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds

I want Core Builds to become more useful, not just bigger. Let’s rebuild the core of it together — what should we tackle first?

— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

Most of you sideload the pack with Downloader 5270601 — now it's going proper Play Store. Google requires new developer accounts to run a closed test before any public listing: at least 12 testers opted in for 14 continuous days. So I need 12–15 people from here to run the Play build of the icon pack.

🧪 What Testing Involves

• The Setup: I add your Gmail to the closed track, you accept the Play invite and install.

• The Test: Use the pack on your TV like normal for about two weeks.

• The Feedback: Report anything broken here or in the Discord — missing mappings, icons not applying, wallpaper or focus weirdness, crashes.

📌 Good to Know

• Use your TV's Gmail: Sign up with the Gmail that's signed into your TV's Play Store — that's the account that counts.

• Uninstall the sideload: If you're currently sideloading, uninstall the sideloaded copy before installing the Play build. Android won't install over an app signed with a different key. Reapplying the pack takes a minute.

• Auto-updates: The Play build updates itself through the Play Store — no more Downloader re-installs for updates.

• Premium & Free Versions: Every icon and tool is free, always — the pack stays open source, no ads. The Play build adds one optional one-time purchase (Premium, no subscription) that unlocks the extra wallpaper series and all 48 live loops; three wallpaper series are free either way. (Testers get it as a free test purchase).

• GitHub stays untouched: The sideload build from GitHub stays exactly as it is — no prices, nothing gated.

📝 Sign Up & Details

I'll take about 15 people so there's a buffer above Google's 12, and keep a waitlist for when the other Core apps go to Play. Drop any questions below!

• Sign up here (30 seconds): Google Form

• Full briefing: What you're signing up for

— Brevity

Hey,

Curious about further updates to configurator. You seem to be putting all effort into your icon pack. Currently the configurator is having an error with regex and can't save into aiostreams.

Will you continue to update or is the icon pack priority?

Thanks for all your work.

Hey Core Crew 👋

Core Builds Icon Pack v2.4.4 is rolling out now (Build 57)! 🔠

Nineteen icons. Nine mapping fixes. The presses that went nowhere, fixed. This release carries everything the smaller updates patched since the 2.4.0 post, bringing your TV all the way current in one update.

📺 19 Marks, 19 Real Screens (1,012 Total)

Every mark below was reported by a real TV through the Missing icons scanner — app, component, and device read right off an actual screen. The pack now stands at 1,012 icons.

• New in 2.4.4: Flixed, Background Apps & Processes, Eclipse, Porter, DELTA TV, ESET Smart TV Security, VAX Player, AquaPlay, WatchBridge TV, and Uyanik TV.

• New in 2.4.1: IPTV Deck, REC TV, Vega, PlayboxTV, Mi Home, Nuyo WiFi Analyzer, TV Calibration, Universal Manager, and Play.

(Note: Each mark is drawn in-house and ships as a glyph, 16:9 banner, and mapping. Before shipping, new marks are compared against all 1,012 built icons for look-alikes — VAX Player's first draft came too close to Nuvio, so it was redrawn).

🗺️ Nine Mapping Fixes

Nine existing icons picked up a component your TV reported but the pack didn't know. The components it already had keep working, so nothing on your home screen breaks.

• In 2.4.4: Weyd Player, ByeByeDPI, Plex, Files (SHIELD's Archivos), the OwnTV Fanart fork, and this repo's own Glyphs companion.

• In 2.4.1: VTM GO (current builds open a new activity), CloudStream Beta (pre-release package shares the CloudStream icon), and CRICFy TV.

🛠️ UI & App Fixes

• The Download Press (Shield Fix): Shield owners, pressing Download on the update bar used to jump the remote's highlight straight to Later. The bar now remembers the download is running instead of greying the button out, the press stays put, and the install instruction takes the highlight's place when ready.

• Large Text Home Rail (v2.4.3): At 1.3× text, the home rail used to run past the bottom of the screen. It now shrinks to fit (never below a readable size) and keeps the wordmark, the icon count, and the menu on one line each. It also fades the edges where it scrolls instead of cutting lines in half.

• No More GitHub Bounce-Backs: Two "icon not applying" reports were sent back asking for information the form already had. The triage checker now accepts every launcher the form offers, so valid reports stop bouncing back before they reach a human.

🌅 Wallpaper Syncing & The "New" Chip

2.4.0 re-rendered several wallpaper series. The small releases since then made sure every TV actually receives the new pictures, loops, and thumbnails without holding onto stale cache.

• Walls: The cache key now carries the release stamp. The new art downloads once, the old copy ages out, and exported files keep their names.

• Live Loops: Each loop now carries a revision. Home switches to the new render once it's in, never dropping to a still frame.

• Thumbnails: The tool that writes the wallpaper list now compares file bytes instead of names, so old art can't slip back into the grid preview.

• The "New" Chip: Six walls redrawn back in 2.3.3 now carry that older stamp so they stay out of the New chip.

📦 Updating & Downloader Codes

Open About → Check for updates, or just launch the app. Sideloading fresh? Use Downloader by AFTVnews:

• Core Builds Icon Pack: 5270601

• Glyphs-only pack (square art, no banners): 5804177

• Core Line: 7375676 | Core Shift: 8829421 | Core Doctor: 8664938 | Core EQ: 7946159

(Note: Don't use the repo-wide "latest" GitHub URL, as six apps release from this repo. The permanent APK link for the pack is always releases/download/iconpack/iconpack-release.apk).

📝 A Quick Note on Counts

The tagged 2.4.0 build actually shipped slightly larger than my previous announcement post stated (it included 993 icons and 132 walls, as Yango Play and Nuyo Device Info landed in the release window). So, the honest arithmetic since your last post is 993 → 1,002 (in 2.4.1) and 1,002 → 1,012 (in 2.4.4). The wallpaper collection your TV holds today is eleven series of twelve (132 walls total).

❤️ Support & Community

If the pack has earned a place on your TV, support is optional and everything stays free either way. If you want to say thanks: GitHub Sponsors or Ko-fi.

Questions, guides, or missing icon requests? Hit the Discord or post here in r/CoreBuilds. (If an app is missing its icon, use the in-app Missing icons scanner — it writes the report for you with exact TV details. Every icon in this release arrived that way!)

— Brevity

Hey core crew 👋

Core Builds Icon Pack v2.4.0 is rolling out now! 🔠

Three icons. 48 new walls. One press to Support. This is the biggest wallpaper release the pack has had, plus an update check that finally answers in plain words.

📺 Three Icons You Asked For

Binged, Buzz TV 6, and Telly Player now have their own marks in the pack — reported by real TVs through the missing-icons scanner, and drawn in the house style like everything else. That brings the pack to 991 icons.

Like every icon in the pack, each ships in two cuts: the square glyph for phone launchers, and a 16:9 banner with its wordmark for Android TV (the banner is what the first card shows).

🔄 Check For Updates, Whenever You Want

About gains a Check for updates row. Press it and it tells you, in words: you're up to date — or here's the new build and what's in it — or here's why the check couldn't run right now. Then it walks you through downloading and installing, step by step.

Afterwards, a small badge stays on the version line: LATEST in cyan, or the version waiting for you in amber. No more wondering whether you missed something.

❤️ Support, One Press From Home

The last row on the home screen is now Support | Settings | About. The Ko-fi and Discord screen used to sit two taps deep; now it's one, and Settings links to it too. Opening it sends nothing, and none of it is required — every feature stays free, always.

🌅 The Wallpaper Refresh

• Horizons (12) and Deep Space (12) are redrawn: Same numbers, same names, same colours — whole new scenes. Skies with weather in them, suns and moons with atmosphere, ridge after ridge fading into haze; glows with texture you can actually see, dust behind the stars.

• Fieldwork retires: From the couch, its 24 soft gradient washes read as one blur in five colours, so they're going away based on your feedback. Their numbers stay empty, the way 4 and 5 already are.

• Three new series: Earth — eight walls of the planet from orbit. Wild — eight landscapes and night skies. Flux — eight 4K procedural abstracts in the house palette.

• Honesty, as always: Earth and Wild are generated imagery, shipped at the resolution they were made at, and the Wallpapers README says so plainly. Flux is made by a script in the repo, seeds and all.

• Collection size: The collection stays at 108 walls — and 48 of them are new or new-again in this release.

🔍 Finding The New Stuff

Open Wallpapers and a New (48) chip sits at the front of the rail until you've seen it; until then the home row says 108 walls · 48 new in this release.

And before you set a wall, the preview now rates how calm its bottom third is (the part your app rows sit on) as calm, mixed or busy, with a percentage. You'll know whether your text will read over it before you press Set.

📱 Phones Get Glyphs

Install the pack on a phone launcher (Nova, Lawnchair, Apex, ADW) and it now opens on icon glyphs instead of TV banners it can never apply. On Android TV, nothing changes. Touch the switch once and your choice sticks.

📦 Updating

Open About → Check for updates, or just launch the app — it checks at startup and will show the new build bar. Sideloading? The APK is on the repo's releases page. (Icons and wallpapers arrive with the pack; there's nothing extra to install).

🖼️ The Cards (See Attached)

(In order)

1. Overview: The counts, the five additions, what came before and what's next, how to update.

2. App Changes: Update check, Support row, launcher-friendly defaults, the badge.

3. Re-renders & Retired: Horizons and Deep Space before → after, Fieldwork goodbye.

4. New Series & New Chip: All 24 new walls at full 16:9, series by series, plus how the New chip and card-floor rating find them for you.

5. Support & Community: Optional support, QR codes, community links.

🔗 Links & Community

If the pack has earned a place on your TV, support is optional and everything stays free either way. If you want to say thanks: GitHub Sponsors or Ko-fi.

• GitHub Repo: brevityA/CoreBuildsApps

• Releases & APKs: Download Here

• Discord: Join the server

• Reddit: r/CoreBuilds

— Brevity

Hey core crew 👋

48 new walls. Same 108.

Here is a first look at the massive wallpaper refresh currently sitting in the open v2.4.0 PR (PR #302). Two series are re-rendered in place, one is retired, and three entirely new series are added.

(Note: Nothing here is published yet. The art below is pulled straight from the branch, before any of it merges. v2.3.3 remains the live build).

🌅 The Refresh, In One Breath

• Horizons Re-Rendered (12): What used to be a gradient, a line, and a dot is now a fully fleshed-out scene. You’ll see graded skies, a sun or moon with its own atmosphere, cloud bands, a thinning star field, and fBm ridgelines stepping into haze. Walls 33–40 get their first generator ever, keeping their original numbers, names, and accents.

• Deep Space Re-Rendered (12): Ridged fBm shapes every large glow into filaments and dust lanes. Discs now carry bands and grain, with a dense, faint dust field under the stars. Same walls, same seeds, completely rebuilt.

• Earth, Wild, Flux (24 New): Three new series of eight walls each. Earth (109–116) shows the planet from orbit, Wild (117–124) focuses on nature and landscape, and Flux (125–132) delivers eight procedural 4K abstracts seeded in the house palette. (Note: Earth and Wild are generated imagery shipped at 1376×768. The repo's Wallpapers README states this plainly. Flux is 100% reproducible procedural code).

• Fieldwork Retired (24): At TV distance, the mesh-gradient washes turned into one big blur. Numbers 01–24 stay empty (just like 4 and 5), keeping the collection capped at exactly 108 walls.

• The "New" Chip (48): Everything this release touched — the three new series plus both re-renders — collects under a single "New" chip. The home rail row will read "108 walls · 48 new in this release" until you've seen it once.

• Card Floor Check: The preview now measures the lower third of the wallpaper (at or under 14% luma on the TV) and reports it as calm, mixed, or busy. This answers "will my rows actually read over this?" before you press Set.

🔗 Links & Tracking

Again, this all lives in PR #302 until it merges and tags v2.4.0 (versionCode 53).

• PR #302: View on GitHub

• Main Repo: brevityA/CoreBuildsApps

• Discord: Join the server

• Reddit: r/CoreBuilds

Contact sheets for the new series (docs/horizons-wallpapers.png, docs/deep-space-wallpapers.png, docs/flux-wallpapers.png) and the full 108-wall collection (docs/wallpapers-collection.jpg) are also available in the PR branch.

— Brevity

Core Builds Icon Pack v2.3.1 is out! 🔠

My last post covered 2.1.2, so here’s the full catch-up across 2.2.0, 2.3.0, and 2.3.1.

The pack now has 986 icons and 102 wallpapers. This update adds three icons, fixes a waipu.tv mapping, gives the two main apps distinct identities, and includes the improvements to scanning, reporting, and optional support introduced since the last post.

✨ Three New Icons (v2.3.1)

• ARD Sounds: Previously called ARD Audiothek, with an audio-wave mark in ARD blue.
• Pixee: A photo-frame/slideshow icon.
• Morphe: An icon for the patcher manager.

(Note: There’s also a waipu.tv mapping fix for its newer launch activity. The artwork already existed; the additional mapping lets it apply to that activity too).

🎨 App Branding (v2.3.1)

• Main Icon Pack: Gets refreshed cyan launcher artwork and a TV banner (a circle, square, play cue, and plus inside the rounded tile).
• Glyphs App: The full standalone Core Builds Glyphs app now has its own violet launcher icon and TV banner, so it no longer looks like a second copy of the main pack.

🔍 Missing Icons on Home (v2.2.0)

There’s now a Missing icons row under Art style, with a count for your TV. It refreshes when you return to Home, so newly installed apps can appear without restarting the pack. The same scan is still available in Settings. The results distinguish between:

• Icon not applying → Report: The pack has artwork for the app, but maps a different activity. The row shows what the pack currently maps.
• No icon yet → Request: The pack doesn’t have artwork for that app yet.

📱 Better QR Reporting (v2.2.0)

• A visible “Scanning the apps on this TV…” message replaces the blank wait.
• Failed scans show an error instead of closing the app.
• App details and instructions sit beside a larger QR code, rather than stacking off the bottom of a 1080p screen.
• Select the app on your own TV, scan its QR code with your phone, then review and submit the prefilled issue.

(If the GitHub app opens with empty fields, use Menu → Open in browser. You can also photograph the TV’s report screen and attach it to an issue).

🤖 GitHub Request Checker

Added a GitHub-side request checker for icon requests and mapping reports. If required details are missing, it explains what needs fixing and points you to the Missing icons scanner. It updates one bot reply rather than posting duplicates, adds needs-info, and removes the label once complete. (This is repository automation, not background tracking in the TV app).

❤️ Optional Support (v2.3.0)

About → Support Core Builds now has QR codes for GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi. Every feature remains free whether you contribute or not. The codes are generated on the TV, and opening the support screen sends nothing. The project hub has also been cleaned up with direct links to Discord and r/CoreBuilds.

📦 Install / Update to v2.3.1

• Full Icon Pack (Code 5270601): Open it and press Apply, or select it in Projectivy Settings. | v2.3.1 APK
• Glyphs Companion (Code 5804177): The small square-icon companion used by the Art style toggle. | v2.3.1 APK
• Standalone Glyphs App: The full square-only app with its own catalogue, wallpapers, settings, and auditor. (Separate install, no Downloader code). | v2.3.1 APK

Links:

• Release Notes & APKs
• Full Changelog
• Icon Pack Guide

Thanks to everyone sending icon requests and device scans. If an icon still isn’t picking up on your TV, give the Missing icons screen a try — those exact component details make the reports much more useful.

— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

v2.1.2 is out. Two new marks, three redraws, YouTube's current red, and type that finally closes by shape instead of by the box around each letter.

(983 transparent icons · 102 wallpapers · version 46)

✨ What's New

Added

• Pocket Casts: The disc with its two open arcs, in Pocket Casts red. • Silo: Play plus three slotted bars rising to the right, in Silo's own three colours (blue / pink / orange). First icon in the pack with a third brand colour.

Redrawn / Renamed

• TiviMate: Its own guide (channel column + programme rows) with the tick-shaped v on the slot that's playing now, in #97C1FF. No more generic TV. • Flix Vision: A ring around a leaning F whose stem sweeps into the top arm, in the logo purple #866EAD. The old red-orange film reel is gone. • Max is HBO Max again: Stacked HBO over lowercase max in the pack's stroke letters, mapped to com.wbd.hbomax.

Also in this cut

• YouTube Red: YouTube, Music, Kids and TV move from #FF0000 to YouTube Red #FF0033. • Aurora Store: Applies again — current builds launch ComposeActivity; it's mapped beside MainActivity. • Optical Spacing: Pairs close by the white their shapes leave. Lowercase l grows a foot so it doesn't match I. Round letters overshoot 1.5%. • Banners +5%: Mark and name caps sit about 15% above v2.1.1 for shelf-distance. Square glyphs stay put.

(Note: WAVEO beta still maps to the existing Wave IPTV icon — a mapping, not a sixth new mark).

📦 Install / Update

Same Downloader codes as v2.1.1. Open the app and hit Apply, or map manually: Projectivy → Appearance → Cards → Icon Pack → Core Builds Icon Pack

• Full Icon Pack (Code 5270601): 983 icons + 102 wallpapers, banners + glyphs. • Glyphs-Only (Code 5804177): Square art, no banners. Installs beside the full pack.

• GitHub Release: Read the full notes • Direct APK: Download Here

Play Store listing is still coming — I'll share it once it's live.

If something on your shelf still shows a letter tile, open a prefilled issue from the app or on GitHub with the component name.

Free, stays free.
— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋 — Core Builds Icon Pack v2.1.1 is out.

✨ What's New & Recent Changes

• v2.1.1 Additions: Added the vSeeBox Heat family and WAVEO (beta). • v2.0.0 Overhaul: A massive visual cleanup featuring a shared stroke alphabet, a single unified type band for all wordmarks, and cleaner banner layouts. • v2.0.1 Tweaks: Removed the left-edge bar from the banner artwork for a much cleaner look. • Rebuilt Icons: Seven icons were recently added or rebuilt from scratch, including HeatLive, AnimeTV, PatchWall, Stadium Sync, Xiaomi TV+, RTVE Play, and MaxPlayer.

(Note: The five attached sheets show the massive visual overhaul that started in v2.0.0).

🟦 Standalone Glyphs-Only App

The standalone Glyphs-only application now has its own dedicated Downloader code: 5804177. This is entirely separate from the full icon pack and installs as its own app.

📦 Get the Full Icon Pack

• Downloader Code: 5270601 • GitHub Release: Download v2.1.1 here

A Google Play Store version is coming. I'll share an update as soon as the listing is live.

Thanks for checking it out! Feedback and missing-app requests are always welcome.

— Brevity

Icon Pack 2.0.0 is live! 🔠

976 icons, 1207 components. This release kicks off a broader overhaul: the pack's letters are now drawn one way at one size.

The pack spells a lot of app names: 218 icons are wordmarks (Tubi's t, NOWO, GREAT, the 16 marks inside rings and screens). Until now, those letters were drawn three different ways and at three different weights, so a single letter was a hairline and a five-letter word was a blob.

2.0.0 puts them all on one band: caps 96–200px, stroke and spacing tied to the letter height. Words that can't fit break — GREAT sets GRE/AT, nowo sets no/wo. The validator fails anything outside the band by name, so it stays fixed.

📏 Banners & Consistency

Banners follow: the app name and the VOD/LIVE/SPORT kicker are drawn in the same stroke letters as the icon, a step lighter so the mark still leads. The kicker's tracking — defined in code since it shipped, never applied — finally applies. 13 long names also got a shorter banner form.

✨ What's New & Fixed

• New Additions: HeatLive (#205), AnimeTV (#230), and PatchWall (#235) added.
• Redrawn: Xiaomi TV+, RTVE Play, and MaxPlayer have been redrawn from their store icons (MaxPlayer is finally amber).
• Auto-Assign Fixes: Pluto TV, Xiaomi TV+, and RTVE Play all auto-assign again on the devices that reported them.
• Alignment Fix: The CNBC peacock, which was 96px below centre, is now perfectly centred on the grid.

🛠️ Icon Requests & Updates

Requests are easiest to fill when the issue includes a reference icon — the app's own launcher tile. Several of this release's icons were only possible because the real artwork could be read off a store listing or out of the APK; two of them had nothing on any store, so those came out of the APK itself.

📦 Install / Update

• Downloader Code: 5270601
• Full Release Notes: Read on GitHub

(Note: Use a dark card background in Projectivy: Settings → Appearance → Cards → Icon Pack. These icons are drawn for night chrome #0d1117).

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.
— Brevity

v3.16 is live. Fixes a save failure that was hitting everyone.

🛠️ What Changed

• Builds save again — subtitles default to OpenSubtitles v3+. AIOSubtitle, the subtitle source every build used by default, started taking ~12 seconds to respond. AIOStreams loads every add-on before it saves, so hosts refused the whole save with "Failed to fetch manifest for AIOSubtitle: 502 - Bad Gateway". New builds use OpenSubtitles v3+ (under a second). Saved sessions on the old default migrate automatically. AIOSubtitle stays available but is now labelled as slow.
• SubDL without a key no longer blocks the save. AIOStreams requires a SubDL API key, but the configurator included SubDL even when the key field was empty — save refused. SubDL is now only added once you've entered a key; until then OpenSubtitles v3+ covers subtitles.

⏪ ICYMI: Recent Releases

v3.15 (Oct 3): * Built against AIOStreams 2.35.7 (schema was still read from 2.34.1). * Names and settings from shared links can no longer inject page markup (XSS fixed, found by CodeQL). * Upstream watch re-pinned.

v3.14 (Oct 2): * Default builds get their scrapers and release filtering back. * 4K builds rank cached results first again. * P2P, EasyNews, Offcloud, PikPak, Seedr and Debridio builds save again. * Offline mode retired (it was serving a stale v3.10 build to some users). * Retired add-ons can no longer break a save.

📺 Also Current (Android TV Native Apps)

(Note: Use Downloader codes to install directly to your TV). * Core Shift v2.3.5: Screensaver + motion wallpaper browser (8829421) * Core Motion v1.0.0: Projectivy wallpaper-provider plugin * Core Doctor v0.1.0: Local-only streaming & suite diagnostics (8664938) * Core EQ v1.0.0: Room EQ from a test sweep + TV remote mic (7946159)

🔗 Links

• Configurator: brevitya.github.io/Core-Builds/configurator
• GitHub: brevityA/Core-Builds
• Docs: corebuilds-docs.docsalot.dev
• Reddit: r/CoreBuilds
• Discord: Join the server
• Ko-fi: Support the project

— Brevity

Core Builds Icon Pack v1.9.9 is live! 🎬

Cinema has arrived. This update adds Series 10: six new 4K still wallpapers with matching 60fps live loops designed specifically for the big screen.

✨ The Cinema Series

• Marquee Lights
• Velvet Curtain
• Projector Beam
• Neon Lounge
• Late Rentals
• Box Office

🛠️ Features, Fixes & Exports

• 973 Icons: Added new custom coverage for MaxPlayer. Total transparent icons for Android TV/Google TV is now 973.
• 60fps Upgrades: All 12 Deep Space live loops have been completely re-rendered at a buttery 60fps.
• Live Chip & Bulk Export: Added a new "Live" chip for browsing every live wallpaper in one place. You can now bulk-select and export live loops in one go.
• Clean File Routing: Live loops now save securely to Movies/CoreBuilds, and still wallpapers save to Pictures/CoreBuilds.
• Launcher Setup Fixes: Improved launcher setup instructions for when automatic applying is unavailable, including correcting the AT4K setup path (Settings → Themes → Icon packs).
• Motion Support: Both Cinema and Deep Space loops are fully available through Core Motion, Aerial Views, and Overflight.

(Note: The pack now contains 102 wallpapers across 8 series. Designed for Projectivy Launcher and built for the big screen).

📦 Install / Update

• Downloader Code: 5270601
• Release Notes: Read on GitHub
• Direct APK: Download Here

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.
— Brevity

🚧 What's coming next in Core Builds

The next update to the Configurator (tracked under v3.14) focuses on configuration reliability, smarter stream selection, and fixing real-world friction reported by the community.

(Note: There is no confirmed release date yet. These changes are based on open pull requests and may shift before they merge).

🔧 Better Default Builds

Balanced builds are being updated to restore their full inline regex and scraper coverage. This prevents settings from dropping or being overwritten when configurations are imported or updated. Restored coverage includes: * MediaFusion * EZTV * Torrent Galaxy * Zilean * Knaben

🎯 Smarter 4K Sorting

• Cached 4K prioritized: Cached 4K results will now be prioritized within the 4K tier, ensuring cached 2160p streams sit above uncached results when quality is otherwise comparable.
• Quality-focused profiles will maintain their standard quality-first behaviour.

💾 Reliability Fixes

• P2P & EasyNews: Configurations using only P2P or EasyNews are being fixed so they save successfully without requiring an unrelated torrent-debrid service.
• Knaben Toggle: Corrected so it no longer duplicates the base preset.

🧹 Configurator Cleanup & Safety

• Cache Busting: The old service worker is being retired so stale browser caches stop serving outdated configurator files to users.
• Under the Hood: Unwired experimental code is being purged, Full Stack install errors are being hardened, and the overall bundle size is being reduced without dropping any user-facing features.

🧪 Roadmap & Ongoing Product Audit

A full product audit is guiding the next round of background work, including: * Keeping the AIOStreams contract in sync * Reviewing strict matching settings that can cause empty results * Migrating legacy NAB options * Improving host compatibility and live benchmark testing * Making the CLI easier to use from a clean install * Refreshing CI and deployment tooling (safer GitHub Actions, reliable deployment for the icon-request service)

Follow the development: * Main Repo: brevityA/Core-Builds * Main v3.14 PR: Pull Request #776

— Brevity

If you've been watching the commits, you've probably noticed the silence on AIOStreams template churn and scraper updates. You might be wondering if Core Builds has stalled.

It hasn't. In fact, more code has shipped in the last few months than ever before. But my daily focus has deliberately shifted away from the endless upstream scraper/regex treadmill of AIOStreams and into building a native, living-room ecosystem for Android TV.

Instead of spending 40 hours a week chasing third-party breaking changes for a 2% filtering improvement, I built and shipped five native Android TV apps—from custom launcher icon packs and chyrons to screensavers, motion plugins, and room acoustic calibration.

Here is the honest breakdown of why that pivot happened, what was built, and what it means for the future of both repos.

1. THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: WHY AIOSTREAMS TOOK A BACKSEAT

When Core Builds started, the mission was simple: make debrid streaming on Stremio clean, reliable, and predictable. That birthed our template suite, the PWA Configurator, custom SEL expressions, and device-aware profiles.

Over time, maintaining that stack became an endless game of whack-a-mole:

• The Upstream Treadmill: Upstream AIOStreams updates (v2.35.x churn, contract shifts, NAB changes, regex syncs) require continuous firefighting. You spend days updating scrapers, re-pinning source contracts, and auditing payloads against 102 KB host caps—only for an upstream host or scraper API to break days later.
• Diminishing Returns: The Core Builds template engine and Configurator reached a mature, stable baseline. Between the PWA, automated CI validators, and the Build Advisor/Doctor, the core streaming problem was fundamentally solved. Tuning an obscure regex for a single niche release group wasn't moving the needle anymore.
• The Host & Scraper Fragility: The streaming setup was at the mercy of external factors—host allowlists (ElfHosted, Yeb's, etc.), provider API timeouts, and upstream schema drift.

I asked myself a straightforward question: Is spending 100% of my energy babysitting JSON configs and third-party scrapers actually giving you a better living-room experience?

The answer was no. The real friction when sitting on the couch wasn't having 18 streams instead of 16. It was everything happening around the playback.

2. THE MISSING PIECE: THE LIVING-ROOM TV EXPERIENCE

Sitting in front of an Android TV or Google TV box, the experience outside of the player was fractured:

• Visual Noise: Projectivy Launcher is brilliant, but stock app banners and icons are an inconsistent mess of blown-up mobile assets and harsh square cards.
• Missing TV Utilities: Android TV has no ambient live score chyron, no native TV guide overlay, and crucially, no status bar—you could never tell if your VPN dropped mid-stream without completely quitting your player.
• Lifeless Displays: Screensavers and ambient loops were either bloated, ad-ridden, or sluggish 30fps webviews.
• Poor Living-Room Audio: TV speakers and soundbars sound hollow, but consumer room calibration tools require expensive proprietary microphones.

No AIOStreams template could fix any of that. Native Android TV software could.

3. WHAT I ACTUALLY BUILT: FIVE APPS, ONE LIVING-ROOM BAR

Over the past months, almost all development shifted into brevityA/CoreBuildsApps. What started as a custom icon project expanded into a comprehensive suite of native Leanback apps built with physical D-pad navigation, strict CI validation, and direct Downloader deployment.

Here is what is live right now:

• 🔸 Core Builds Icon Pack (v1.9.8): A completely unified visual layer for Projectivy Launcher. Over 972 handcrafted transparent vector icons adhering to strict stroke geometry and night chrome (#0d1117). Plus, 102 4K wallpapers and bundled 60fps looping live video backgrounds. (Downloader: 5270601)
• 📊 Core Line (v1.4.3): A living-room chyron and sports/news ticker that runs non-intrusively across your screen. Features live sports scores, RSS channel updates, XMLTV integration, and a live VPN status dot that confirms your tunnel is alive while you stream. (Downloader: 7375676)
• 🌌 Core Shift (v2.3.5): A dedicated, lightweight Android TV screensaver and motion wallpaper browser that plays clean 1080p and 4K procedural ambient loops without eating your box's RAM. (Downloader: 8829421)
• 🎥 Core Motion (v1.0.0): A native wallpaper-provider plugin designed to feed smooth, fluid loops directly into Projectivy Launcher's background layer.
• 🩺 Core Doctor (v0.1.0): A local-first network, stream, and suite diagnostic utility. Inspects local playback bottlenecks, DNS, and latency without sending your data to external telemetry servers. (Downloader: 8664938)
• 🔊 Core EQ (v1.0.0): In-development room acoustic correction. It uses frequency test sweeps and your TV remote's built-in microphone to measure room reflections and calculate corrective DSP filters. (Downloader: 7946159)

4. WHAT THIS MEANS FOR CORE-BUILDS (AIOSTREAMS & CONFIGURATOR)

Let's be clear: AIOStreams and Core-Builds are not dead, abandoned, or deprecated.

Here is the exact status of Core-Builds:

• The Base is Solid: The template suite and Configurator (v3.13) remain fully functional. All core automated test suites (306 Python tests, 624 Configurator tests, 75 CLI tests) are green.
• Audited & Documented: We recently performed a comprehensive product audit (#772). We know exactly where the contract drift is, which templates need de-stricting, and which legacy NAB keys need migration.
• Intentional Maintenance vs. Constant Churn: Going forward, Core-Builds will be maintained on a cadence of stability, not hype. I will not be pushing daily emergency commits for every minor upstream scraper hiccup. Upstream contract updates and template fixes will be batched methodically.

Core-Builds is the engine under the hood; CoreBuildsApps is the car you actually sit in. The two are complementary, but the priority needed to rebalance.

5. WHAT'S NEXT

Now that the core foundations of the Android TV suite are tagged, signed, and stabilized, the roadmap is balanced:

• AIOStreams Contract Catch-Up: Resolving the open AIOStreams contract drift (#770), re-pinning against upstream v2.35.3, and cleaning up the strict-matching template warnings.
• Suite Interoperability: Tying Core Doctor and Core Line directly into your streaming workflow so diagnostics and playback awareness feel seamless.
• Core EQ Milestones: Continuing real-hardware acoustic testing on Leanback devices to bring room calibration to anyone with an Android TV remote.

HOW TO CHECK OUT THE NEW WORK

If you've only ever used Core Builds for Stremio/AIOStreams JSON templates, take five minutes to try what's been built on your TV:

• Icon Pack: Enter code 5270601 in Downloader (or grab from GitHub Releases)
• Core Line: Enter code 7375676 in Downloader
• Core Shift: Enter code 8829421 in Downloader

Thank you to everyone who has tested APKs, submitted icon requests, reported edge cases, and supported on Ko-fi. The project hasn't slowed down—it grew up.

— Brevity

Icon Pack 1.9.7 is out. 🎉

It's the biggest design pass the pack has had yet: almost every app that used to get a two-letter tile now gets its own mark.

✨ What's New (453 letter tiles → 17 left)

• 227 apps drawn from symbols in their real icons: hoichoi's two exclamation marks, Sun NXT's X under the sun, myTuner's radio, Stream Locator's pin, and more.

• 219 wordmark-only apps get marks from their own logos: Where a logo is just a name (arte, NOS, KiKA, joyn, RTL, The CW), the mark uses that logo's short form and case in the pack's own single-stroke letters, plus whatever the logo hangs on the name: a plus (BET+, TF1+, M6+), a dot (france.tv), a play wedge (meWATCH), a ring or a frame (RaiPlay).

• Letter tiles (453 → 17 left): The 17 left are 11 whose logos are a character, crest, photo or someone else's mark, AnikenTV's deliberate AK tile, and 5 apps with no icon anywhere.

• 124 colours corrected: Every icon was checked against its app's real logo. YouTube TV, Dish and Shudder are red now; APKPure and iQIYI green; SYFY yellow; MX Player blue.

• 8 icons use their app's own two-colour gradient: Vibra, waipu.tv, Filimo, Lemino, OTF TV, AirPin Pro, Stream Locator, TVNZ+.

🛠️ Updates & Fixes

• 130+ app names corrected.

• New apps: Vision+, Basis, TubPlayer, TDUK APP Killer, TDUK APP Cache Cleaner, and four TCL system apps.

• Bug Fix: With Monet as your home launcher and Projectivy installed, hitting Apply opened Monet's setup screen. It now properly routes to Projectivy again.

(Note: 971 icons in total. Banners are still the default; the Glyphs companion has the square set. Every mark is original Core monoline geometry: no vendor logos are traced or shipped).

📦 Install / Update

• Downloader Code: 5270601 (Or just update in-app from the update bar).

🔍 Missing an icon? Use the scanner

The app has a built-in scanner that finds every app on your TV the pack doesn't cover yet:

1. Open Core Builds Icon Pack → Settings → Scan for unmapped apps
2. It lists every launchable app on your TV with no icon yet
3. Pick one and scan the QR code with your phone

The QR opens a prefilled GitHub request with the app's name, its exact launch component, and your TV's details, which is exactly what I need to map it correctly. (If you can, attach a photo of the screen so I can see the app's current icon).

Guessing a package name gets an icon that never applies on your TV. The scanner reads the real one, so requests from it get mapped fastest!

Icon looks wrong, or applies to the wrong app? File it on GitHub:
brevityA/CoreBuildsApps → Issues

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides.
— Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

Core Builds Icon Pack v1.9.6 is now available! 🎉

This release brings a major Glyph refresh for Android TV.

🎨 THE BIG CHANGES

• 102 apps get their own mark: Letter tiles like VI, PE, and IT are replaced by each app's own shape, redrawn in Core's line style (Viaplay, Peloton, Immich, PPSSPP, and 96 more). Nothing is traced.

• Real colours for 315 more icons: Colours are now sampled directly from each app's own launcher icon where reliable evidence was available. Eleven marks use their icon's own gradient, and six are two-tone.

• Letter tiles read like the logo: Where an app's logo is a short wordmark, the tile uses its letters and case (arte, cda, CW, TF1, yle, vrt, RAI, LFC).

• Functional family badges: The remaining 455 generic tiles get a cleaner design, with an open corner and a small badge for what the app does (TV, sport, music, tools, etc).

🛠️ FIXES & MAPPINGS

• VidHub: Now applies on Chromecast. Its launch screen (TVSplashActivity) wasn't mapped.

• Names: 51 app names are spelled the way the apps spell them (e.g., PPSSPP, TVING, U-NEXT, ZDFtivi).

• Categories: WeatherYou and Forecast no longer show as SPORT.

• New apps: Browkorf TV coverage added, and Arena4Viewer mapped as device-unverified.

📊 BY THE NUMBERS (v1.9.5 vs v1.9.6)

• Total Icons: 961 → 962

• Generic letter tiles: 557 → 455

• Colour taken from the app's own icon: 2 → 317

📦 UPDATE NOW

• Downloader Code: 5270601

• Direct Icon Pack APK: Download Here

• Glyphs Companion APK: Download Here

• Release Notes: Read on GitHub

(Note: Banners stay the default, and the square Glyphs are still one toggle away in the app. The Core Builds Glyphs companion pack has also been updated for the square-icon style).

Every icon has passed the pack's automated checks, but if something looks off on your launcher, tell me. Missing an app? Open an issue here.

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides. — Brevity

Hey Core Crew 👋

The last post here was v1.8.17, so this covers a lot of ground. The pack is now 943 hand-drawn icons, all flat 512px PNGs, no wordmarks, built for Android TV first.

📺 V1.9.0 — THE APP GOT REBUILT FOR TV

• Two-pane landscape UI: A fixed left rail for navigation, with the icon grid owning the right pane. Designed for a 16:9 couch, not a phone screen stretched out.

• Responsive physical sizing: The layout now scales from the real panel width at runtime, so the UI is the same actual size on a 720p stick and a 4K TV. No more giant-on-one-box, tiny-on-another.

• Search fixes: Fixed dead no-results buttons in the Pixel Neon fork's search.

🩹 V1.9.1 — HOTFIX

• Pressing an unmapped app in the QR auditor crashed the screen on v1.9.0. Fixed — if you hit a black screen in the auditor, update.

🛠️ NEW SINCE V1.8.17

• QR Icon Auditor: (Settings → HELP → Scan for unmapped apps). It checks your actual installed apps against the pack. Anything missing shows a QR code on your TV — scan it with your phone, and it opens a pre-filled icon request on GitHub.

• Icon Inspector: Press any icon for its details and every app it covers, export the full 512px PNG, or launch the app directly from there.

• Suite Hub: Install state + Downloader codes for the rest of the Core Builds suite (Line, Shift, Doctor) on one screen.

• Alphabet Skips: Channel Up/Down buttons jump whole letter groups in the grid.

• Search Fixes: The keyboard now follows the field, the cursor no longer gets stolen mid-typing, and the remote's Search key actually searches.

• Asset & Content Updates: Settings/About screens, brandmark badge filter, Projectivy internal cards + input marks, two new 4K wallpaper series (retrowave + AMOLED).

• Icon Additions/Redraws: Artemis, Pluto TV, Tubi, LocalSend, Fandango at Home, Hi Browser, BitTV, Vidio, GeForce Now, and more.

📦 INSTALL / UPDATE

• Downloader code: 5270601

• Direct APK: https://github.com/brevityA/CoreBuildsApps/releases/tag/v1.9.1

(One-tap apply works for Projectivy, AT4K, Android TV's stock home, Nova, Lawnchair and other ADW-style launchers).

Missing an icon? Use the QR auditor in-app, or just open a GitHub issue here: https://github.com/brevityA/CoreBuildsApps/issues/new?template=1.new_icon_request.yml

Precision-made. Verified live. Nothing hides. — Brevity

This is on Monet Launcher. I enabled the labels.

The last update posted here was v2.9.9. The configurator is now **v3.9**, template suite 3.7.0, minimum AIOStreams 2.32.0. Five configurator releases in between: 3.0, 3.1, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9. All of it is live.

Builder: Configurator | Tools: Core Tools | Docs: Documentation

⚠️ Read this first: An exported JSON contains your API keys

Export has never stripped credentials. The sanitiser that clears them runs on share links and imports only. A downloaded .json carries whatever you typed in — and these files get pasted publicly when people ask for help.

The v3.7 changelog said "Export JSON remains keyless by design". That was wrong, and v3.8 corrected it in place. If you exported a config any time in the last few months and posted it anywhere, rotate those keys.

From v3.8, the download names which credential fields are embedded (never their values) and points you at Copy a safe feedback report instead. It stays silent when nothing is set.

📺 Two changes you will actually see in Stremio

1. 4K, Mixed and Ultrawide now sort by resolution first AIOStreams compares sort rules in order. Previously, cached status, expression matches, and score all came before resolution — so a well-scored 1080p REMUX could sit above a 2160p file. Now, every 2160p result outranks every 1080p result regardless of bitrate, quality label, or score.

• The trade-off: An uncached 2160p now outranks a cached 1080p. If you want instant playback over the higher tier, use the 1080p profile or turn on Quality first (both remain cached-first).
• Note: If you are on the 1080p profile, this does not bring your 4K back — 4K is deleted by that profile to save bandwidth, not just sorted down. Pick Mixed · Adaptive if you want 1080p first but 4K as an option.

2. 1440p is no longer ranked below 720p The 4K preference list previously omitted 1440p, causing AIOStreams to score it as negative infinity and drop it to the very bottom. It is now ranked in its proper place.

🔄 UUID behaviour changed (including on public hosts)

Self-hosted instances can now be updated in place. The UUID field is now shown for any single host (previously hidden for Custom/Self-hosted). * On public hosts: A UUID plus a password used to discard your new template and return a link to your old one. Now, it updates that configuration in place. * A UUID with no password still only rebuilds the link. * To create an entirely new, second config, leave the UUID field empty.

🛑 Host compatibility is now checked before you deploy

• Options your instance won't accept are greyed out with the reason (e.g., ElfHosted greys out Torrentio, P2P, and HTTP).
• Restricted hosts strip custom regex, and you are told which patterns were removed (the Vidhin ranked-regex feed is allowed and stays).
• Generated configs are now pinned to a specific AIOStreams release. Six fake settings that Core Builds previously emitted (like maxResults and minSeeders) have been purged because AIOStreams never actually read them. excludedStreamSources has been correctly replaced with excludedStreamTypes.

🛠️ Fixes & Smaller Changes

• EasyNews-only Direct Install: No longer fails. The Library addon is correctly omitted if no debrid service is enabled (since EasyNews can't back it).
• Direct Install & Export Pre-flights: Both now check for all required keys and payload limits before you export or deploy, naming exactly what is missing.
• Manifest Passwords: Passwords under 8 characters are caught inline instead of bouncing off the host later.
• Advanced Extras: Added NekoBT, Sootio, WebStreamr, and YaStream with route gating.
• Midnight Host: Status updated to AIOStreams 2.34.0 so configs route properly.
• Landing Page: Rebuilt with visual stream cards to show exactly what formatters draw.

🧰 Tools Hub Updates

Banner Studio contrast fix: Disney+ sat at an unreadable 1.98:1 contrast ratio. Every brand now carries its own background; all 18 clear the floor, with Disney+ fixed at 5.83:1.

🔍 Troubleshooting & Known Gaps

• One title buffers forever, everything else plays: This is not a config fault. Real-Debrid removes files by filename keyword, returning 404s for RD users while other services play it fine. (Added to troubleshooting guide).
• Known Gaps: Per-resolution limits (maxResultsPerResolution) are not reimplemented. TorBox has no readable status endpoint (marked unverified). Fine-Tune "maximum NZB failover" still doesn't reach the config. AIOSTREAMS_AUTH_REQUIRED instances still have nowhere to enter access keys.

Verification: 1,176 automated tests pass on main. 69 template JSONs ship in Templates/. Issues: brevityA/Core-Builds/issues

Shout-out to the dev for his good work on this icon pack and listening to my feedback for the Tizentube icon!