Live Channels

Google LLC

About this app

Live Channels app is for watching Live TV. Watch your favourite news, sports, movies and TV shows from various channel sources such as built-in tuner, IP-based tuners and more and show them instantly on your Android TV.
Permissions Notice:
* Location: Needed to provide a complete programme guide for TV channels.
* Storage: Needed to load poster arts of programmes.
* TV listings: Needed to show a programme guide and a channel banner.

Ratings and reviews

I don't know where all of these negative reviews are coming from. I am just using it as an alternative to the native HDHomerun app and as far as I'm concerned it's fine. It's more intuitive than the HDHomerun app and more responsive. With the HDHomerun app sometimes I have to tap my remote several times before it responds but that is not a problem with the live channels app. My only fault with it is it lists Pluto TV as a source but when you try to use Pluto TV there is nothing there. Hence four stars instead of five. But I wanted it mainly for my local channels via HDHomerun anyway. Also, I found at least in my case that it works better if I also have the HDHomerun app installed on my box even though I'm not using it. I am using this app on a Mibox 4.

I don’t know if this app is relatively new or not, but I downloaded to my new tv with android tv built in, and the interface seems really nice, except, it doesn’t actually work with anything. There’s a program guide, which doesn’t display any actual program info!?! Really, I’m really just hoping this is new and a “Work In Progress”.

Simply doesn’t work. Downloaded it on my Philips Android TV and despite me giving the app the correct permissions it refuses to recognise the 160+ antenna channels which are already set up on the TV. The only option is Google Play Movies & TV, and the “Get more sources” option just takes me to a screen with “Live Channels” as an option, which when clicked just returns me to the previous screen again. I was really hoping to be able to replace the standard tuner app on the TV as it’s just awful, but it looks like I can’t.

What's new

What's new in version 1.30:
* Bug fixes.
* Added a deprecation message.