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German public broadcasting live streams as an Android app
https://mediathekview.de/news/zapp/
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Zapp 8.x cannot be installed on Android TV based on Fire TV #345

Closed sbellon closed 1 year ago

sbellon commented 1 year ago

When trying to install the latest Zapp 8.0.0 (have not yet tried with 8.1.0 but the changelog does not suggest that something has changed) on my Android 8 Oreo based Android TV, I get the error message that the APK cannot be installed because it is a split APK.

The changelog only mentioned the drop of Android 7.

cemrich commented 1 year ago

Thank you very much for your feedback!

This should not happen. I'll look into it.

cemrich commented 1 year ago

I am very sorry, but i cannot reproduce this issue. I am able to install directly from F-Droid and via adb sideloading (on an android 8 emulator). Maybe your file got corrupted?

sbellon commented 1 year ago

I downloaded https://github.com/mediathekview/zapp/releases/download/v8.0.0/zapp-8.0.0.apk directly on the Android TV. I was able to open the downloaded file within TotalCommander on Android TV like a ZIP file and could browse through the content. Also, I downloaded twice to make sure the file is not corrupt. But then I'll try later once more...

sbellon commented 1 year ago

I tried once more with 8.1.0 with the same result: "Bad or split APK" is the error message. It does work with 7.0.3 and older.

However, perhaps I am mistaken regarding what version of Android it is. I always thought, Fire TV is Android 8 Oreo, but perhaps I mixed that up with the Philips TV version. I'll double check the Fire TV and its Android TV version tomorrow.

sbellon commented 1 year ago

Gosh, today I learnt that my Fire TV Stick 4K uses FireOS 6.2.9.4 which is still based on Android 7. That explains why Zapp 8.x does not install on it anymore, I guess.

Sigh, time for a new Android TV stick then ...

cemrich commented 1 year ago

I am sorry. The last version of Zapp did not bring many changes to the TV version, but of course that might change in the future.

hoasis2 commented 1 year ago

Sigh, time for a new Android TV stick then ...

Does the Version 7.0.4 (61) - Added on 2022-09-19 not work anymore?

sbellon commented 1 year ago

Oh yes, it does, but all the new stuff and bugfixes ...