Guys, When I watch tv, Netflix or other vod streaming, all works fine. But when I use for example any radio FM app, screensaver launches after few minutes and app turns off. Why does tv not recognize some apps as running apps and turn into idle mode? How to fix this?
Media apps can avoid this by issuing playback from a service that keeps a MediaSession active. To keep the display from switching off, developers should add the FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON flag.
Details can be found here: https://developer.android.com/training/tv/playback/ambient-mode
This is entirely up to the developer to implement correctly.
Can you then recommend ANY radio stations app which keeps TV screen on? I have tried 3 random apps and all 3 turned screensaver...
I use TuneIn and it keeps the screen on.
It's a problem with the specific app, not OS related.