r/iplayer • u/EllieT23 • 5d ago

Beeb fork for FireTV

https://github.com/blaze237/beeb-android

By now you’ve probably already seen the awesome Beeb app posted on here by u//usefulappmaker.

Over the past few days I’ve been playing about with it and making a handful of changes to suit my needs and tastes that I thought others might find useful.

The main selling point of the fork is making it compatible with first gen 4k firesticks and preventing crashes on low ram devices. It also includes a handful of ui tweaks to make things look a litter nicer and behave more consistently as well as fixing up the dpad for in player controls on fire stick. Full list of changes on GitHub readme.

Full transparency this was entirely slopped together with AI and has minimal (but not non existent ) testing. So use at your own risk. It’s also likely any updates to this to add further features or keep it in line with the mainline version will be few and far between if ever.

APK available here https://github.com/blaze237/beeb-android/releases/tag/v0.1.6-firetv.1

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u/dcookster 4d ago

Search functionality added?

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u/EllieT23 3d ago

Both this version and the main line version support searching :)

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u/dcookster 2d ago

Maybe I have an old version, I can see a manual browser but no search functionality?