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- Overview
- MATVT: Mouse for Android TV Toggle (Now for flipphones as well)
- So what does this app do?
- How to install?
- How to use?
- Important points to know After Installing
- Configurations available in the APP:
- FAQs
- Redistributing and Creating MODs
- Reporting Bugs
Please read the After Install instructions carefully otherwise you might end up soft-bricking yourself (it's possible to recover, but why do you want to risk it, eh?)
Hard to reach portions of some legacy app that you're running on your Android TV (/flipphone)? Feeling the need to have a touch input in your Android TV (/flipphone)? Or just looking for an alternative to the famous Mouse Toggle App for your TV (/flipphone)?
MATVT solves all the above. Unfortunately, it's not on the playstore, and there are no plans to launch it there either. If you'd like to see it on playstore, please let me know in the issues tab (any support is also graciously accepted).
Official Releases (and pre-releases) can be seen at https://github.com/virresh/matvt/releases.
The latest stable release fit for usage on TV can be downloaded at https://github.com/virresh/matvt/releases/latest.
MATVT is intended for users running Android TV / Flipphone (Android version 7+, limited functionality on Android 6 flipphone) and have a big remote with atleast the following:
•DPAD (for up, down, left, right and center buttons)
•A spare key to toggle mouse mode (we call it the BossKey)
•Color buttons (Red, Green, Yellow, Blue)
•Info button
After installing this app, you'll get a mouse cursor that can move around, perform clicks and left / right / up / down swipes from your remote itself without any extra hardware (no need to pair with an android phone / laptop etc)
Download the APK from the releases section and side-load it on your TV. The source-code is open and available should you wish to inspect it / build it yourself / don't trust the release apk ;)
Remember there are two apks, one for Android TVs, one for Android FlipPhones. The one's without a -phone suffix are for flipphones, the others are for TVs.
•DPAD is for movement and single clicks (has long click support too, but isn't very reliable)
•The color buttons are for swiping. RED and GREEN for up/down swipe, YELLOW and BLUE for left/right swipe
•Info button will instantly toggle mouse visibility (so you can switch between mouse and no mouse instantly)
•Pressing back button for more than 3 seconds will disable the accessibility service completely This is now removed.
•The mouse will auto-disappear after a short while and re-appear when you press another relevant button.
•Toggling mouse modes resets cursor position
•Be sure to go to Special App Permissions in your settings and give permission to MATVT to draw over other system apps. If you don't do this step and enable the accessibility service beforehand, the app won't have necessary permissions to do anything and it'll keep consuming your input, so your remote will no longer work. If you have gotten yourself in this situation, see FAQ.
•AFTER doing the above, you can go to accessibility settings and enable MATVT service.
•Mouse Size
•Mouse Scroll Speed **
•Mouse Icon (two icons, light and transparent available)
•Bordered Window (Enabling this will prevent the cursor from warping over the screen edges)
•Disable Boss Key (If you have a full size remote, you don't need to keep a boss key. Info key and color buttons are sufficient, read how to use section for more info)
•Will Boss Key Toggle (When remotes don't allow long pressing, this will allow people to cycle through various modes on key press in the order: Dpad -> Mouse -> Scroll -> Dpad) *
•Is this tested? Yes, I have tested it on Sony Android TV. So any other Android TVs running Android 9 should work. If you've tested the official version on some other TV and it's working, please let me know, I'll create a list of TVs that are known to be working.
•I didn't follow instructions properly and have soft-bricked myself, now what? You'll need a physical mouse to go to accessibility services and disable MATVT. And this time before re-enabling it, please follow instructions and give the service proper permissions. You can also use a keyboard, but it'll be way more tedious.
•I didn't follow instructions and was not soft-bricked, why all the warnings? You should consider yourself lucky then :p. But be aware that the warnings are put there from a real experience. Though thanks to community contributions, this is probably fixed in some newer versions for most TV boxes.
•So, how does it work? You have the exact code in front of you, feel free to read it { It's not that bad ;) }. In a nutshell, this app uses Accessibility features provided by Android.
•I think there's something that can be improved. How to contribute? I welcome all kinds of contributions. Documentation, Code tests, Actual Hardware Testing etc etc. Please feel free to create a Pull request and remind me in a couple of weeks if I forget about it :D
•Is there a version for Android Phones too? While I believe this shouldn't be required on most touch screen Android phones, for those stuck with a non-touch screen Android phone, support for it is on the way. There's an experimental build available. Checkout discussion at #3 for more information.
I welcome everyone who'd like to hack on the application, but I request everyone to stick by the following
•Please consider sending the enhancement to this project itself. I'm open to all enhancements and fixes. The whole point of making this app open source is so that folks have full access to the source code and don't have to pay anything for it.
•Please considering pointing to the latest releases from this repository itself, unless you explicitly want folks to download an old version. This prevents more people from downloading old versions and reporting bugs that might have been fixed.
•If you absolutely do not want to contribute back anything here, then please add a disclaimer to your distribution that it's bugs should not be reported here.
•By no means should you think that the source code being free means you can sell it. The source code is officially licensed under GPLv3, kindly abide by it's terms of use (it requires disclosing source code).
•If you want to make commercial application out of the project and for some reason need another license / cannot abide by terms of GPL, please file an issue to discuss.
Please ensure to report bugs against an official release. It's hard for me to track down mods. Please try the latest official release before reporting a bug, just in case the latest version has fixed issues that you might be facing.
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