TV Photo

Tóth Csanád

In-app purchases

About this app

TV Photo is a gallery, slideshow and screensaver app for Android TV devices.
The app provides access to images stored on local storages.
TV Photo is compatible with Android TV Oreo+ home screen channels, so you can display your latest and random images on the TV home screen.
You can create an animated screensaver from the image database or a selected folder.

Functions:

- View images from internal and/or external storage
- Screensaver
- Slideshow based on the entire database or individual albums
- Adding and managing favorites
- Sort albums and pictures by date and name
- Tile size settings
- Opening video files
- Display homescreen channels (Android TV Oreo+)
- Show Exif data (2x up button while viewing image)
- Zoom (OK button while viewing image)
- Select one or more animations
- Specify animation duration and switching interval
- Select custom album and screen saver folder

TV Photo offers the following in-app purchase items:

- Unlock TV Photo
- Unlock screensaver

Ratings and reviews

I have been trying out many other apps to play photos from thumb drives and this seems to work the best. Would like to buy the upgrade but after many attempts can not make purchase. I have spent hours today with Sony and Google Pay and apparently if you do not have an android phone you can not buy any apps on Sony TVs. I recommend this app and wish I could buy the upgrades.

Adding to my previous review, I'll give a higher rating as the app eventually finds the photos in external drive though not instantly. Something that I'd love seeing is speeding up launch of the app. The more photos I have the slower the launch. I have over 30,000 photos and it takes over a minute for the app to start on Nvidia Shield.

I rarely purchase apps, but I made an exception in this case because this app was exactly what I needed for my new TV: a fair and simple screen saver with custom photos. But, please, allow the "slideshow interval" to be over 10 sec! I need this very much since I want to display artwork photos on my TV, where a much slower pace is suitable - e.g. a photo per minute, or two minutes. This is a minor change and does not even require any modification of GUI: the current "slideshow interval" slider can be just made nonlinear, with a few options like 20s, 40s, 60s, 120s, 300s for the rightmost slider positions. Another cool feature in the future would be adding a "fill screen" option, that would scale and chop the photo so that it fills the entire screen... Keep up the good work!

What's new

1.0210514
- Bugfix

1.0210315
- Russian translation - thanks 2Sist!
- Scaling images to fit the screen (screensaver)

1.0210221
- Bugfix

1.0210214
- Revised implementation of the Google Play billing system
- Chromecast with Google TV support

1.0210204
- Screensaver overlay (clock, album and filename)

1.0210129
- Dynamic updating of favorites data

1.0210127
- Splash screen
- Adjust UI colors

1.0210124
- Collapsible menu

1.0210119
- Bugfix

1.0210117
- Search for albums and photos