A plainer home screen for Google TV.
Your apps, your HDMI devices and a photo you chose, with the time, the weather and a headline in the corner.
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Shore is a free, open-source launcher for Android TV and Google TV. It shows your apps, the devices plugged into HDMI and a photo you chose, with the clock, the weather and a headline on top. While music plays it opens the song full screen, with synced lyrics. Hold Home and you are back in Google TV.
It is a fork of Nathan Clark's CleanFrame. The interface is the original HTML/CSS app; a small Java shell runs it full screen and connects it to the TV. Shore is built and tested on a TCL 55C6KS, and people run it on other TVs too.
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Unofficial. Not affiliated with TCL, Google or any streaming service. Everything is reversible, and each step says how.
You need a computer on the same Wi-Fi with Android platform tools (adb), once. Shore installs next to Google TV and removes nothing.
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On the TV, turn on developer options (Settings › System › About, press OK on Android TV OS build seven times) and USB debugging.
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Connect and install the APK from the latest release:
adb connect <tv-ip>:5555 adb install -r Shore.apk
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Turn on Settings › System › Accessibility › Shore Home button so Home opens Shore. On TCL sets, also allow auto start.
The Installation page has every step, including Android 14's wireless debugging and the TCL auto start fix. After this you never need the computer again: Shore updates itself.
| Home | Dock, List and Shelf layouts, up to nine apps in your order, recently used apps, your own icons, Continue watching. More |
| HDMI inputs | A console or set-top box gets a tile when it is switched on, named over HDMI-CEC. More |
| Search | Apps, inputs and Settings pages, typed with the remote or on your phone. More |
| Pictures | 15 bundled photos, online and animated wallpapers, your own photos, a different photo for each part of the day. More |
| Under the clock | Weather, headlines, your next calendar event, what is playing, optional widgets. More |
| Music view | The cover, controls and synced lyrics that light up word by word. More |
| When you're away | Shore's own screensaver, night mode and a sleep timer. More |
| Control | Any remote button can do something else. A parental lock and daily screen time limits. More |
| Phone companion | A web app on your phone, served by the TV: photos, settings, apps, keyboard, backups. More |
| Add-ons | Off until you switch them on: Home Assistant, Pi-hole and AdGuard, weather effects, headlines, widgets. More |
| Performance | Auto, High end, Balanced or Potato: Shore keeps what your TV can draw smoothly. More |
| Languages | English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Italian and Turkish. |
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| The phone companion: photos, TV settings and apps from your phone, over your home Wi-Fi. Pictures of the real page with invented data. | |||
Most Google TV and Android TV sets should work. These have been run:
| Device | System | Status |
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| TCL 55C6KS | Android TV 12 (Google TV) | Reference TV: everything is built and checked here |
| TCL 65C7K | Google TV | Reported working |
| CHiQ L32QM8G | Android 14 | Reported working |
| Hisense A6N series | Android TV 12, 2 GB RAM | Reported working, Home Assistant add-on tested |
The wiki's Verified devices page has the details, and a TV report adds yours.
The wiki has a page for every feature, plus Troubleshooting.
git clone https://github.com/taynotfound/shore.git && cd shore
echo "sdk.dir=$HOME/Android/Sdk" > android/local.properties
gradle -p android assembleReleaseNeeds JDK 17 and the Android SDK (platform 35). Release APKs carry no API keys, so Unsplash, Pexels and Klipy wallpapers and Top Shelf recommendations need a build with your own. The Build from source page covers keys, GitHub Actions and the browser preview (npm ci && npm run dev:public). Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request, and docs/ for developer notes.
Questions, bugs or a TV to report: Discord, usually the fastest way to reach me. Shore is free. If you'd like to support it: Ko-fi · GitHub Sponsors
MIT. Shore is a fork of CleanFrame by Nathan Clark and keeps its licence and third-party notices. The Home Assistant add-on was made by mozthewah. Photos, logos, fonts, weather, lyrics and recommendations come from other people under their own terms; the full list is on the wiki's Credits and licences page.