Who builds InoxTV, and what it deliberately is not

InoxTV is a player for IPTV playlists, built for Android TV, Fire TV and Android phones. You supply a playlist from a service you already use; the app turns it into a channel list with a programme guide, a movies and shows library, recordings, and a remote‑control layout that works without a touchscreen. It supplies no channels of its own, which is the point of the content disclaimer.

Why it was built this way

Most IPTV players are phone apps with a ten‑foot skin bolted on. The result is an interface where every action is a menu, and where the D‑pad does something slightly different on each screen. InoxTV started from the remote instead: the channel list, the programme guide and the player each have their own key map, every key in every one of them is reassignable, and the defaults are chosen so the buttons a TV remote actually has are the ones that do the common things. The key reference lists all of it.

The rest of the app follows from that. Seven dark themes, because a bright interface in a dark room is unpleasant on a large screen. Nineteen interface languages, because IPTV usage is not concentrated in English‑speaking countries. A buffer setting you can raise, because the connection between a viewer and their provider is often the weak link and no amount of decoder tuning fixes it.

Two builds, one codebase

The phone and tablet build is in.inoxtv.mobile. The television build is in.inoxtv.tv, and it is a genuinely different interface rather than the same layout scaled up. Both come from one codebase, so a feature usually lands in both, though the way you reach it differs, a long‑press on a phone is often an OK hold on a remote.

Both are on Google Play. The television build is also published as a direct APK on a GitHub release, because Fire TV devices do not have Play, and because some Android TV boxes ship a Play Store that will not show it. Installing that way is covered in the Fire TV guide.

What the app deliberately does not do

Several features get requested regularly and are not going to be built. Saying so here saves people the email.

• No playlist directory or search. The app will never help you find a source. It reads what you give it.
• No bundled or default playlist. A fresh install has nothing to watch until you add something.
• No account. There is no sign‑up and no server holding your data, which is why your playlists live only on the device and why taking a backup matters.
• No sharing of playlists between users. Not through the app, not through a code, not through a QR scan.

How this help centre is written

Every page here is written against the shipping app, with the settings screen open. On‑screen labels are quoted exactly as the app renders them in English, so searching for a phrase you can see on your television lands you on the right page. Key‑map tables come from the app's own key definitions rather than from memory, and the default column reflects the build you can install today.

Pages carry a last‑updated date at the top. When app behaviour changes, the affected page changes with it, a guide describing a screen that no longer looks like that is worse than no guide.

The site carries advertising and uses analytics, which is what pays for the domain and the time spent writing these pages. What that collects, and how to opt out, is in the privacy policy.

Getting in touch

One address, read by a person: support@inoxtv.com. The contact page lists what to include so the first reply is useful rather than a request for more detail. Bug reports and feature requests go to the same place; there is no separate tracker.