Add Exit button Prompt

I would love an 'are you sure" prompt added, personally, because I do find myself often accidentally exiting the Channels app, on my AppleTV, and it's kind of annoying. That said I'd only want it added if it was an option, so those who don't like it could keep it disabled, and then everyone's happy :slight_smile:

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I think this idea is like marmite, you love or you hate it, it would be nice as an option, sometimes I find myself hitting the back button too many times when I just want to go to the guide or the side menu, and find myself out of the app.

The part which I don’t know is, how fire sticks or Android TVs deal with some awkward level of multitasking they have, can we get the app to fully shut when we go off it, or do apps exist in some sort of semi open state in the back ground until it’s forced closed that’s out of our (the developers) control.

I know especially when using Picture in Picture with channels, I would like the app to close, and thus the mini instance of the playing a TV channel close too, and not be overlaid the firestick Home Screen.
But this would have to be another toggle to keep everyone happy.

Yes, I believe it’s the (very welcome!) introduction of PIP that has me regularly, accidentally exiting the app.

And it’s not a big deal to re-launch it, but the issue for me is losing the buffer, which is a bummer.

I don't know if this helps anyone, but by conditioning myself to only use the back button when I need to has prevented accidentally leaving the app for the most part. I open channels and go to the guide. I find something to watch and click it. It goes into full screen. When I'm ready to watch something else, I click the pip button, it goes into the small pip window and I'm back at the guide. Click a show from the guide. It loads in the pip, and I hit the pip button to make it big, or just click the program again in the guide to make it big. I'm using the pip button as the back button for the most part. I think I only have to actually use the back button when I'm navigating the settings menu. If I ever want to leave the app and go do something else, I just hit home, I would rather the app stay in memory. It'll reload itself of it needs to. Even with the setting turned on, I'm not sure I would ever actually see the prompt since I've conditioned myself to use different buttons.

This probably doesn't help anyone. Thanks for reading it if you did though.

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If the fire tv stick had a dedicated button for pip it would help, but unfortunately on fire stick, when pip is enabled, it can only come on when you press the back button to the guide from watching a program. I do press the home button if I want to get out the app without pip turned from watching a channel, but if the pip window is open leaving the app with the home button keeps the pip window open.

I guess there is also a bit of a technical challenge depending which way the app is exited, back button or home button, and getting the app to force close either way.

If you feel like tinkering beyond what's already available, you could remap a button to be a pip button, just depends if you want to put in the effort to change a buttons function. I think there's a netflix button you could repurpose.

Actually after further investigations into my own pip button mapping, I see that it is possible to use my pip button to kill the app. Works a charm.

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That’s impressive, what are you using?

Button Mapper Pro

You can refer here on how to use it:

Oh, Nvidia shield?

Yes, but it will work for all android based streamers (shield, firestick, ccgtv, tivo, etc)

I only have a standard firestick remote, and button mapper doesn’t appear on the Amazon App Store, I’ll see if I can side load it, maybe if I can set a long press on the back button to kill the app that would be nice.

Just tried, works on my shield remote.
Edit - upon killing the app, the quick settings opens, didn't do that with the netflix button.

I stopped using Button Mapper on my shield, as it was causing an issue with system volume control. randomly making it think that i was holding down the button, so it would just go full on up to max if i presed vol up once, or go all way down to mute, if press vol down.

I posted about it here, and was told by devs, disable any thing using Accessibility options, which button mapper was inorder to work, and the issue went away and has not returned.

I am using the system vol control. If you use IR, or CEC, or whatever, external device that controls vol, and have the Shield set to fixed out put, may not have that issue,.

Mouse toggle has a similar effect where it can break things. Anyways, check the button mapper thread, I had a post about your volume issue. I tagged you in it sir.

:face_with_raised_eyebrow:
? I find several threads that are about Button Mapper.
I have no notification i was tagged in another thread.
Link?

I agree. I'm seeing this on more apps and I am not a fan.

The Netflix approach sucks but that's not being requested here. It should be an option in the settings whether or not to prompt on exit. Just a prompt. Nothing on the sidebar and you can leave it disabled if you don't want it. Simple. Everyone gets what they want.

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I would love that. I dont like apps running in background.

I think this would be cool feature. But have it in settings so you can choose to enable/disable feature

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