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You shouldn't see any visible change from these changes, it's only background changes, though this upgrade sets us up to do UI changes much more quickly in the future
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This change is now complete! 
Thanks to everyone who tried out the alpha and provided feedback.
At the moment, the best branch to be on is the Beta branch - this will be getting most of our new changes, including an upcoming rewrite shipping soon of the Search feature which will bring us more in-line with how iOS / tvOS works. Here's a preview:
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Hi there, that new search looks really nice, looking forward to trying it out,
however
Please try to address the guide issue also seen on my post here. It requires me to force stop the channels app every time it occurs
I understand it may be a hard bug to track the root cause, but as a stop-gap fix, could you please implement an option that every time the channelsDVR app opens, you do the initialization that says "preparing your TV" - the issue never occurs when that initialization completes before going into the app, and im sure my parents would much prefer the ~3 second wait when they open the app rather than having to video call me and me show them how to force stop the app
Many thanks
Drew
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This bug is very much on my list; one thing that would really help is, if you have a consistent way to cause it to happen, that would be a huge help. Right now, I cannot cause it to happen at-will, so I can't verify if any change I make fixes it.
Steps to recreate channelsDVR blank guide bug
Tested on - CCwGTV4k on AndroidTV 12 API/31, Channels App version v4.6.6
- To ensure constant environment, force stop the channels app.
- Open channels app, go to the guide
- find a channel that is not currently recording, verify that at least 10 hours of guide data for the channel is there
- Go back to the current time on the channel, and watch the current program.
- Turn off the CCwGTV4k with CC remote, wait 5 seconds
- Turn on the CCwGTV4k with CC remote, the previously playing program should resume
- Click back on the remote, the guide should come on
- Attempt to navigate at least 10 hours of guide data, issue should show at 8 hours
for video, please see https://youtu.be/8Z7bp8g3yps - May take a while to go live due to YT processing, quality is poor for quick upload but should get the point across.
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The alpha seemed like it was operating fine for me, except the age-old guide deal where if I want to search into the future if I don't step right very carefully (meaning slowly) it will fail.
In my admittedly unscientific testing it will succeed about 20% of the time and the other 80% of the times I FFWD at medium or high speed it will either crash to the launcher or just stop in its tracks long before the guide data ends.
Shield Pro 2019/Win10 Server/Both always with a few days of latest updates.
Thanks so much for such detailed steps, I'll try to see if this happens for me as well
hows about modifying the colors and stop having google remove my carbon theme from my drive @tmm1 @maddox
Thereâs no plans on adding new colored themes, and anything youâve done is at your own effort.
We canât make promises that what youâve done wonât break, and this isnât the appropriate thread for this.