The primary/first platform was Apple TV. This is the developers' primary target.
Also, unlike some apps that use a mediocre cross-platform library to base their apps upon, Channels is a completely native and separate code based between platforms. The time and effort needed to port features between platforms is reflective of the time and disparity between Apple and Android clients.
Do you have a Apple TV? Is so please report how the change is. If you see it. I'm so curious to see it in action.
Pretty awesome. It is exactly how you had hoped. Simply showing the data for the show you are on. If you timeshift backwards it'll show the data for that show. If you go forwards it will show data for that show.
Oh sweet!! Thanks so much for reporting! I'm drooling here! It's like i had a child but I can't see it!! Lol
Just think how long you would have to wait if you were stuck using a Roku 
Oh Lord!! That's why I never went that route. I even stayed away from Fire TV till my last TV, for this reason. But I'd think Android....
I guess it makes sense what someone mentioned here before. The channels App was primarily made for Apple TV, I didn't know that. So fair enough I guess
Preliminary support has been added in the next Android beta apk
Give me give me give me! Can it downloaded already?? I'm downloading beta server
Hold on ... Not the server. The Android beta APK? Hmmm ok. I'll download it
See:
Yup yup, I know how to. Downloading it now
Ok, I downloaded the beta app already. But I guess I'll have to wait now to build a buffer. I guess I'll be able to see it in action in 25 minutes from now (it's now 1:35 so by 2:00 I'll be able to see)
Can't wait.
Will report back
Oh hell yaaaa!
I love It!!!
This is awesome!!!
Ha haaaaaaa!
Thanks thanks thanks
Funny, I set it to get notifications every time you post a new beta release notes. And I kept monitoring it for this guide change. But I didn't realize this would get done via the app, not the server.
I'm so glad this was implemented! And I gotta say, I'm kinda a little proud of it too. Even though I didn't do any of the work. I feel like I somehow made it happen. Lol.
I know a lot of people will appreciate this change. Most will just think that's how it always was. But those that do notice the change will appreciate it, I'm sure!
Gosh I'm so giddy! I keep rewinding to see it. 
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Noticing a little bug here ...
If I go back to more than 1 show back, I get a blank description.
So it only works correct for the 1 show back. 2nd show back is blank already.
Can be fixed? Hopefully it's a small issue
Update on the Bug.
I guess I was wrong. The issue isn't being back 2 shows. That isn't the trigger at least for the issue.
Cause it's now more than a hour later, and the shows after that blank is still showing good data.
So idk, must of been something else that went wrong there.
Right now I'm 4 shows behind live, I moved back n forth, it shows good data for everything from the blank on...
So for now it's running fine, accept for that one hour of blank data. Worth noting that I have 2 streams running on 2 different Android boxes, each tuned to a different channel. And they both are missing that one hour of data. But also both are now running fine since that.
I'll keep monitoring both how it behaves.
Aiiii.
As I finished typing the last post..... I lost all the shows data, meaning now ONLY the show that's live shows data. Anything behind it, even 1 behind. Is now blank data.
Something is a little buggy here.
But I guess that's normal for first try?
When it works it's PERFECT! I hope you can iron out this bugs.
Edit: I just checked the other box, that other channel is also the exact same now, only shows data for the live show. Blank even 1 back
It seems to work for a while, a few shows will work fine, then all of it will get lost, and it will show data only for live. Anything back is blank. Then it will start working again, meaning as time goes on and new shows start, the data will show correctly for a while, for these new shows, then lose it all again, back till live.
It seems like the file with the description data and thumb images gets wiped after a certain amount of time maybe?
Any idea what's going with this? Did you have a chance to look into it?
It's still behaving the same way. It works for a few shows, then everything goes blank till live, builds up again, then all gone
It seems to me like the data gets wiped. Maybe it has to be kept in a different separate location. Maybe the same location where the live buffer itself is stored? So it only wipes it when the buffer itself gets wiped. Aka changing channels etc etc.
Idk I'm no pro at this. Just my crude opinion...
Yea it's a bug. When the data refreshes from the server it forgets the old program info. I will try to fix it.
