# techgenius1/tvOS-Launcher

> A lightweight launcher for Android TV and Google TV inspired by tvOS 26 and macOS, written in pure Java with no third-party runtime dependencies. It replaces the stock home screen with a Liquid Glass Dock, night scenes, a control panel overlay, and a built-in debloater over local ADB.

- Magnitude: 3.1 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 142 total · +18 stars measured 2026-10-30, 20:52–23:05 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Java · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-28 · Last push: 2026-10-30
- GitHub: https://github.com/techgenius1/tvOS-Launcher · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/techgenius1/tvOS-Launcher

## Useful for

- Replace the stock Android TV home screen with a customizable launcher
- Remove preinstalled bloatware from a TV via the built-in CleanYourTV without a PC
- Set up multi-tap remote button remapping via the built-in Button Mapper

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-30 (UTC), 20:52–23:05: 124 → 142 stars (+18). This is the change over that interval.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 142 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #173.
- About 5 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 6
- Issues and pull requests: 2
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 18 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 8
- Latest release: v2.0.3 (2026-10-30)

## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-28 … 2026-10-30: 0, 36, 18

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #173

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-30 23:14 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.