--- type: "post" id: "free-my-tv-1-2-a-ready-apk-e03a63" slug: "free-my-tv-1-2-a-ready-apk-e03a63" title: "Free My TV 1.2: a ready APK, 26 languages, more TVs" description: "Free My TV 1.2.0 adds a project-signed APK for Google TV and Android TV, along with wider device support, a sleep timer and photo-based screensaver options." retrieval_nugget: "Free My TV 1.2.0 adds a project-signed APK for Google TV and Android TV, along with wider device support, a sleep timer and photo-based screensaver options. For teams maintaining TV software, the release is a practical example of distributing one customizable home-screen experience across fragmented platforms while keeping some features dependent on user-supplied configuration." published_at: "2026-11-13" updated_at: "2026-11-13" record_date: "2026-11-13" date_kind: "published_at" topics: ["google"] entities: ["Free My TV","Google TV","Android TV","Samsung","LG","TMDB","Amazon Fire TV","onn 4K Streaming Box"] related_patterns: ["agent-ready-software-exposes-capabilities"] novelty_label: "new_fact" source_url: "https://github.com/simbasjungles/free-my-tv/releases/tag/v1.2.0" source_urls: ["https://github.com/simbasjungles/free-my-tv/releases/tag/v1.2.0"] schema_version: "newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2" stable_id: "post:free-my-tv-1-2-a-ready-apk-e03a63" status: "published" visuals: [] editor: {"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]} routes: {"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/free-my-tv-1-2-a-ready-apk-e03a63/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/free-my-tv-1-2-a-ready-apk-e03a63.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/free-my-tv-1-2-a-ready-apk-e03a63.json"} markdown_url: "https://newruntime.com/posts/free-my-tv-1-2-a-ready-apk-e03a63.md" --- # Free My TV 1.2: a ready APK, 26 languages, more TVs ## Retrieval answer Free My TV 1.2.0 adds a project-signed APK for Google TV and Android TV, along with wider device support, a sleep timer and photo-based screensaver options. For teams maintaining TV software, the release is a practical example of distributing one customizable home-screen experience across fragmented platforms while keeping some features dependent on user-supplied configuration. ## Summary Free My TV 1.2.0 adds a project-signed APK for Google TV and Android TV, along with wider device support, a sleep timer and photo-based screensaver options. For teams maintaining TV software, the release is a practical example of distributing one customizable home-screen experience across fragmented platforms while keeping some features dependent on user-supplied configuration. ## What happened The Free My TV project released version 1.2.0 on October 24. Its announcement describes a ready APK for Google TV and Android TV, signed with the project’s own key. Users can install it with `adb install -r FreeMyTV.apk`; the project says this signing arrangement allows subsequent releases to update the installed app in place. Users who previously built Free My TV themselves must switch back to Original and uninstall that build first because it has a different signing key. The release adds a sleep timer in the app’s settings and a My Photos feature. Users can send up to 100 photos from a computer or USB stick. The screensaver can display them, and when there are no movie or series picks, one photo becomes the home-screen background each hour. The project also says the top buttons can be set to Live TV, HDMI Inputs or Settings, and the app shelf can hold any number of apps, scrolling beyond the visible area. It adds a rim around the shelf and focused app, and says that on some 4K TVs the interface is smoother, with crisp rounded corners on MediaTek chips. Compatibility changes span several TV operating systems and device families. The announcement lists support for Android 8 to 14, including photo imports on Android 11 and screensaver launch on Android 12 TVs. Samsung TVs from 2017 onward can install through TizenBrew Installer using the GitHub project; LG TVs running webOS 3 or newer can use the webOS Homebrew Channel repository or a package installed through Developer Mode. The release also names Hisense remote buttons, Xiaomi TV buttons and HDMI inputs on MIUI TV, HY300 projectors, the onn 4K Streaming Box, and safety guards for Amazon Fire TV. For Samsung, the release notes also name Globoplay, Prime Video on 2020 TVs, and apps installed in Developer Mode as shelf options; HDMI inputs can open while the device is on standby. Free My TV says users can choose among 26 languages, including Traditional Chinese and Thai. For Google TV and Android TV, the app takes the user’s city from the TV time zone. Movie and series picks require users to build the app themselves with a free TMDB key. The release also lists regional picks: NOW in the UK, Paramount+ outside the US, and Kinopoisk, Okko, Premier, Amediateka and Wink in Russia. It does not state a price for the app; the only explicitly priced dependency is the free TMDB key. Other listed changes include a weather forecast for upcoming hours or five days, and a 24-hour clock for English-language TVs configured to use 24-hour time. ## What the archive adds New Runtime’s earlier coverage of Free My TV 1.3 says that release added self-updating APKs, phone-to-TV TMDB key transfer and Continue Watching ([November 7 note](https://newruntime.com/posts/free-my-tv-1-3-ships-self-updating-2b728e/)). This 1.2.0 release is an earlier step in the same product line, not a new event in the current coverage sequence; the ready APK and expanded device support are the newly relevant details here. ## Trend signal This release is a modest example of [agent-ready software exposing capabilities](https://newruntime.com/patterns/agent-ready-software-exposes-capabilities/): it makes a customizable TV interface available across device platforms and exposes choices such as photo handling, shelf ordering and launch buttons. It does not describe agent access or permissioned interfaces, so the connection is about composable product capabilities rather than evidence of an agent-specific design shift. ## Why it matters A home-screen replacement has to survive differences in operating systems, device generations, remotes and installation routes. Free My TV 1.2.0 shows the practical cost of that work: the same user-facing feature set needs separate distribution paths for Android TV, Tizen and webOS, plus device-specific handling for buttons, HDMI inputs and standby behavior. Even a seemingly simple feature such as an app shelf depends on knowing which apps are installed and how each platform exposes them. For teams building software that runs across consumer hardware, a ready signed package can lower the installation barrier, but it also makes signing continuity part of the user experience. The project’s warning about uninstalling a self-built version illustrates a common deployment constraint: a binary cannot simply replace an installation signed by a different key. Likewise, the TV’s time zone and a user-provided TMDB key define which information the app can personalize without claiming that it supplies every service itself. Those dependencies are worth documenting alongside install instructions so users can distinguish app behavior from external accounts, data and platform support. ## Limits and uncertainty The release announcement describes supported devices and features but provides no independent compatibility testing, adoption numbers, crash rates or performance measurements. It does not explain how many models were tested for each manufacturer or how long the project will maintain older operating-system support. The project lists services and regional picks, but does not establish that every listed service works on every supported TV. The source also gives no app price; users should distinguish the free TMDB key from any separate subscription or account requirements of media services. The smoother 4K experience is asserted without a benchmark or definition of the devices and workloads compared. ## Reader takeaway Free My TV 1.2.0 combines a ready-to-install, project-signed Android TV APK with a broad set of TV-specific integrations and personalization features. Its limits are equally clear: compatibility spans multiple platforms, and some content picks require a user-supplied TMDB key. For builders, the useful lesson is that distribution, signing and per-device behavior are product features, not packaging details. ## Open question How many of the newly listed TV and projector integrations have been tested across current retail models? Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json ## Continue in the graph Next records for an agent, linked to their Markdown twins. 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