Live Channels

Google LLC

About this app

Live Channels app is for watching Live TV. Watch your favorite 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 program guide for the TV channels.
* Storage: Needed to load poster arts of programs.
* TV listings: Needed to show a program guide and a channel banner.

Ratings and reviews

well since you no longer support this app and the 14 day guide is no longer available, there's really no [point of leaving feedback, other than the recent updates were bad in that when you record (DVR) a show it puts black bars on the sides... not all channels, only the SD channels, it adds black bars to the already-there black bars and it makes it squish-vision...

It's a nice app but since it's been deprecated, it's useless. The app lags, it has bugs and, considering using this app on Android 11, it's somehow "cutting" the menus and the image, the EPG is not working and other issues that needs to be fixed in order to work properly on the latest Android/Google TV version. So overall, I don't recommend it, even if it's a nice app which gives almost everything.

This used to be one of the better collaboration apps on Shield TV devices, however Google has since discontinued it through their "updates". You can still use it on devices where it was a System App however, simply "Uninstall updates" & make sure you never update the app again (this means you will have to turn off auto-updates). This allowed me access to my HDHomeRun tuner again, as well as programing from 1 or 2 other installed free streaming apps (depending on Shield model, the older Pro still more functional than the newer "tube" model). UPDATE: Recent system updates to Shield TV devices since the publication of this review have broken guide information in the app, I would assume intentionally. You can still access programming from TV tuners and a few other free apps, however you are now doing so blindly, because you can't see what's on those channels (only the channel numbers are still visible).

What’s new

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