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StreamFlow - Premium Cinema Experience 🎬
StreamFlow is a high-fidelity movie streaming application designed for NAS enthusiasts and home cinema lovers. It combines a premium Apple TV+ inspired aesthetic with a lightweight, high-performance backend, now consolidated into a single Docker image for effortless deployment.
📋 Latest Release: v1.3.0
What's New in v1.3.0:
- 🔍 Search Experience Overhaul: Fixed UI rendering, added keyboard/voice support, and verified backend connectivity.
- 🟥 Solid Red Branding: Pure solid red adaptive icon and banner for a cleaner TV home screen look.
- ⚡ Navigation Polish: Smarter focus management and sidebar transitions.
- 🐞 Stability: Fixed compilation errors and optimized network requests.
Previous (v1.2.0):
- 🎬 Animated Splash Screen: Premium logo animation on app launch
- 📺 Continue Watching: Watch history persisted across sessions
- ⭐ My List: Save favorite movies for quick access
- ⚡ Faster Loading: Optimized splash screen (1.2s) and lazy loading
- 🐛 Bug Fixes: Fixed video playback, improved stability
- <EFBFBD> Bug Fixes: Fixed video playback, improved stability
Previous (v1.1.0):
- 📺 Native Android TV App with Leanback UI
- 🎮 ExoPlayer Integration for HLS streaming
- 🔍 Voice Search support
📺 Native Android TV App
A dedicated native Android TV app built with Google's Leanback library for the optimal TV experience.
Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Leanback UI | Netflix-style horizontal rows with focus animations |
| ExoPlayer | High-quality HLS video streaming with buffering |
| Voice Search | Native Google voice search integration |
| D-Pad Navigation | Seamless remote control navigation |
| Curated Home | Personalized sections (Top Rated, New, Genres) |
| Splash Screen | Animated logo with premium launch experience |
| Continue Watching | Resume where you left off with watch history |
| My List | Save favorite movies for quick access |
Downloads
- Download TV APK (v1.3.0) - Direct Download
- Download Mobile APK (v1.3.0) - Direct Download
- All Releases - View Release Page
Installation
# Install via ADB
adb install StreamFlix-TV.apk
Project Structure
android-tv/
├── app/src/main/java/com/streamflix/tv/
│ ├── data/
│ │ ├── api/ # Retrofit API client with HMAC auth
│ │ ├── model/ # Movie, ApiResponse models
│ │ ├── WatchHistoryManager.kt # Persistent watch history
│ │ └── MyListManager.kt # User favorites
│ └── ui/
│ ├── browse/ # Main browse screen (Leanback)
│ ├── details/ # Movie details with actions
│ ├── playback/ # ExoPlayer video playback
│ └── search/ # Voice + text search
├── SplashActivity.kt # Animated splash screen
└── gradle/
💎 Premium Features
🧊 Liquid Glass UI
- Immersive Design: Deep frosted-glass effects (40px+ blur) with Apple-style deep occlusion.
- Micro-interactions: 1px translucent borders, 3D card scaling, and smooth state transitions.
- Cinematic Hero: Dynamic full-screen backdrops that change based on featured content.
- Dark Mode Perfected: A custom OLED-friendly palette optimized for theater viewing.
⚡ Turbo-Charged Performance
- Parallel Crawler: Fetches category data with concurrent workers, reducing initial load times by up to 60%.
- Multi-Layer Caching: Advanced Redis-backed caching for movie metadata, catalog results, and stream extraction.
- Eager Prefetching: Intelligent frontend prefetching of thumbnails and metadata before you even scroll to them.
- Instant Recovery: Session-based client caching for near-instant navigation back to Home and Cinema views.
📱 Native PWA Experience
- Installable: Full Progressive Web App (PWA) support. Add to Home Screen on iOS and Android.
- Native Feel: Runs in standalone mode without browser chrome for a truly native app experience.
- Custom Icons: High-resolution 'Liquid Glass' app icons for your home screen.
🐳 Unified NAS Architecture
- Single-Container Deployment: Backend and Frontend are bundled into one efficient image.
- Low Overhead: Zero-bypass streaming shifts heavy video load 100% to the client side.
- NAS-Optimized: Designed to run smoothly on Synology, QNAP, and Unraid (linux/amd64).
🍅 Rich Metadata
- Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: Real-time integration of "Fresh" and "Rotten" score badges.
- Watch History: Cross-device history and "My List" bookmarks saved to Redis.
- Robust Player: Hardened video overlay with instant context-aware closure (Escape key, Back button, and X support).
🚀 One-Step Deployment
Copy this into your docker-compose.yml and run docker-compose up -d:
version: '3.8'
services:
# StreamFlow Unified (Backend + Frontend)
app:
image: vndangkhoa/streamflix:1.1.0
platform: linux/amd64
ports:
- "3478:8000"
environment:
- REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379
- DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///./app/data/streamflow.db
- PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
volumes:
- ./data:/app/data
depends_on:
redis:
condition: service_healthy
restart: unless-stopped
# Redis Cache & History
redis:
image: redis:7-alpine
platform: linux/amd64
ports:
- "6379:6379"
volumes:
- ./redis-data:/data
restart: unless-stopped
command: redis-server --appendonly yes
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "redis-cli", "ping"]
interval: 5s
timeout: 3s
retries: 5
🏁 Accessing the App
- UI & API: http://localhost:3478
- API Docs: http://localhost:3478/docs
🛠 Tech Stack
- Backend Core: FastAPI (Python 3.11), SQLAlchemy, Redis
- Scraping Engine: Playwright (Headless Chromium) &
aiohttpfor resilient data extraction - Frontend Engine: Vanilla JS (ES6+), Vite, ArtPlayer.js
- Android TV: Kotlin, Leanback, ExoPlayer (Media3), Retrofit
- Styling: Modern CSS with deep backdrop filters and Liquid Glass design tokens
- Architecture: Multi-stage Docker Build (Debian-slim)
📝 Credits
Movie data provided by ophim API.
Designed with ❤️ by vndangkhoa.
Tip
Synology Tip: Use the Container Manager (formerly Docker) on Synology. Create a new "Project" using the YAML above for the best management experience.