The dashboard exposes landscape / portrait / landscape-flipped / portrait-flipped
and the README promises rotation, but neither player ever read the device's
orientation field - it was hardcoded landscape. Reported by a customer testing
Firestick + Samsung signage.
Rotate the CONTENT in software, not the panel: Fire TV / Android TV / Tizen are
fixed-landscape and ignore setRequestedOrientation (can't physically rotate).
- Android (MainActivity): applyOrientation() resizes rootView to the rotated
dimensions, recenters, and rotates 0/90/180/270. rootView is the shared
container for single-zone AND multi-zone, so both are covered. Driven from the
playlist-update payload.
- Tizen (app.js): CSS transform on the stage (rotate + swapped 100vh/100vw),
same four values, from the playlist payload.
Verified on an Android 16 emulator: device set to portrait -> 'Applied
orientation: portrait (rotation=90, swap=true)' and the video renders rotated.
The player has a launcher (category.HOME) + a boot receiver, but auto-start was
unreliable where you can't set a home launcher (Android TV) and on Android 14+,
where USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT is auto-revoked for non-calling apps so the boot
full-screen launcher silently no-ops.
Boot launch:
- BootReceiver now does a direct background startActivity when 'display over other
apps' (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW) is granted — a real exception to the bg-activity-launch
restriction, and the one path that works on Android TV. Full-screen-intent
notification kept as a fallback (locked screen / no overlay).
- Boot notification moved to a dedicated HIGH-importance channel (full-screen
intents are only honored from one), and it auto-dismisses once the UI is up.
Setup screen — new permission rows so operators can grant what boot-launch needs:
- Launch on Boot (USE_FULL_SCREEN_INTENT, shown on Android 14+)
- Background Activity (battery-optimization exemption)
- Display Over Apps (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW)
Made the screen scrollable and ~50% smaller text/buttons so all rows + Continue
fit on one screen (incl. landscape signage). Install-Unknown-Apps subtitle now
states updates are signature-verified, so it doesn't read as 'install anything'.
Verified end-to-end on an Android 16 emulator: after reboot the app auto-launched
(Direct launch via overlay) and the boot notice cleared itself; all rows toggle.
The OTA downloaded + verified the new APK and committed a PackageInstaller
session, but never handled STATUS_PENDING_USER_ACTION (which Android 13+ returns
for non-device-owner installers) — so the session stalled and the update never
installed. Reproduced on an Android 13 emulator: device stayed on the old version.
- UpdateChecker: register a receiver for the session's INSTALL_COMPLETE broadcast;
on PENDING_USER_ACTION launch the system confirm dialog (and log SUCCESS).
- PowerAccessibilityService: when the package-installer dialog appears, auto-click
the confirm button (by id, then label) so unattended kiosk screens update
without a human tap. Scoped strictly to the package installer.
Verified end-to-end on Android 13: device auto-updated 1.7.10 -> 1.7.11 with no
interaction (receiver launched the dialog, accessibility confirmed it). Ships as
1.7.10 (also carries the Android 14+ crash + YouTube 152 fixes).
NOTE: existing 1.7.7 devices still need a one-time manual reinstall to reach a
build that has this fix; from 1.7.10 onward OTA is fully automatic.
Rebuilds and redistributes the player APK so the fixes actually reach devices:
- #5 Android 14+ mediaProjection FGS crash (committed in source but the SERVED
ScreenTinker.apk was a stale 1.7.7 build from before it — modern devices
couldn't launch the app at all).
- YouTube error 152 (embed base domain).
versionCode 11->12, versionName 1.7.8->1.7.9, VERSION file 1.7.7->1.7.9 so the
update check offers it; signed with the same release key (OTA signature check
passes). Verified on a Pixel 10 / Android 16 emulator: launches without crashing,
YouTube plays.
ScreenTinker - open source digital signage management software.
MIT License, all features included, no license gates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
