Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen

Re:Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to ... by scrollaway on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:46PM (#27644087)

Last I used Kodi, it was a great app for, like, DIY entertainment management but utterly useless if you are expecting to use something like Spotify or YouTube.

It has been a while though, so I might be outdated on this, but I'm guessing it's still not possible to log into spotify from it, browse the spotify library / your playlists, use device remote play from your phone to the tv, and so on. Same goes for youtube (though I do remember some useful-ish youtube plugins, they didn't go beyond logged-out browsing)

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Re:Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to ... by herbst on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:19PM (#27644414)

Logged in YouTube works fine. I use both (android and Kodi) and honestly it's not so much worse on Kodi. Plus you don't need to sideload apks to disable the current ad flood

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Re:Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to ... by ajot on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:10PM (#27644863)

If you have Kodi on Android, you can have "links" (I don't remember the name in Kodi, sorry) for the Spotify, Youtube, Netflix, etc Android apps within Kodi.

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Re:Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to ... by input_sh on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:56PM (#27644191)

Pretty sure Spotify works fine. They have a fully functioning API for premium users. Netflix might be a problem though.

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