StreamVault
StreamVault is a TV-first media player for Android TV built with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, Hilt, and Media3.
It is designed for large playlists, remote-friendly browsing, fast provider switching, and a polished living-room playback experience. StreamVault supports M3U playlists, Xtream Codes, Stalker Portal, and Jellyfin providers, plus Stremio-compatible add-ons, with dedicated flows for Live TV, Movies, and Series.
Built for Android TV first, StreamVault focuses on the things generic IPTV apps usually get wrong: D-pad navigation, quick channel movement, large-library organization, and a player that still feels good to use from the couch. Phone and tablet installs are also supported, but the primary UX target is TV.
Preview
Highlights
- Android TV-first interface with D-pad-friendly focus, navigation, and playback flows
- Provider support for
Xtream Codes, Stalker Portal, Jellyfin, and M3U sources, including local playlist files
- Combined M3U live-source support with optional in-browser source switching for merged Live TV setups
- Jellyfin onboarding with password sign-in or Quick Connect QR/code flow for TV-friendly setup
- Fast live-TV browsing with preview mode, favorites, recent channels, custom groups, and pinned categories
- Transparent full-guide overlay that can open over live playback without leaving the player
- Movie and series libraries with detailed info pages, resume support, episode switching, and auto-play for next episodes
- Offline VOD downloads with grouped episode queues, pause or resume controls, and local playback for completed files
- Full EPG support with guide search, XMLTV support, and provider archive or catch-up when available
- Built-in DVR with scheduled recording, background capture, recording playback, and app-managed default storage
- Multi-view split-screen playback for watching multiple channels at once
- Plugin API for creating companion Android APKs that extend providers, playback, Cast URL handling, or configuration flows
- Native Stremio add-on catalogs, metadata, direct/debrid playback, subtitles, resume history, and offline downloads
- Trakt scrobbling, watched-history sync, watchlists, ratings, custom lists, and Trending or Popular discovery
- Local and Google Drive backups for provider setup, favorites, groups, and playback history
- Selectable app themes, subtitle search and customization, and quality controls for VOD playback
- Strong parental controls with PIN-protected categories and automatic adult-category detection
- TV integrations including Watch Next, launcher recommendations, TV input sync, Cast support, external-player handoff, and in-app update delivery
Features
Provider Support
Xtream CodesStalker PortalJellyfin media servers with direct library sync and TV-friendly Quick Connect supportM3U playlists from URLs plus local files- Play supported adaptive and DRM-protected streams from M3U playlists
- Expanded Stalker and Ministra compatibility for Live TV, Movies, and Series
- Quick Stalker setup from supported playback or export links
- Separate onboarding and sync flows for live channels, movies, series, and guide data
- Fast switching between providers with provider-scoped settings
- Combined M3U profiles for merging multiple M3U providers into a single Live TV source
- Scheduled background refreshes keep saved provider catalogs and guide data up to date
- QR-based provider pairing from a phone on the same LAN for faster TV setup
Navigation And TV UX
- Designed for Android TV and D-pad navigation first
- Fast channel browsing with large-playlist friendly layouts
- Numeric remote input for direct channel entry
- Configurable startup landing screen so the app can open Home, Live TV, Movies, Series, Guide, Downloads, Plugins, Stremio-compatible Add-ons, or Settings first
- Colored remote button remapping with global defaults plus playback and live-browse overrides
- Customizable Home shelves and primary navigation tabs
- Preview mode while browsing channels
- TV-friendly search and text-entry flows
Live TV And Channel Management
- Favorites and recently watched channels
- Custom groups for personal channel collections
- Pinned categories surfaced near the top of the live guide rail
- Hide or restore individual channels and categories
- Optional Live TV provider or source browser for M3U-based setups
- Optional category-sidebar auto-hide and a configurable Live TV clock
- Long-press live categories for actions like pin, hide, lock or unlock, and custom-group management
- Channel reordering for favorites and custom groups
- Channel numbering modes by group or across the full provider lineup
- Predefined filter words to make category search cleaner on noisy provider data
Guide, Search, And Playback
- Full EPG grid view
- Transparent full-guide overlay over live playback
- Program search inside the guide
- XMLTV guide support with built-in EPG source management
- Manual EPG match overrides and source-priority controls from inside Settings and Guide flows
- Provider archive or catch-up support when the source exposes replay streams
- Live rewind or timeshift playback with up to 30 minutes of buffer, even when provider catch-up is unavailable
- Optional real-time translation subtitles while watching supported live streams
- Global search across live TV, movies, and series
- Multi-view for watching multiple live streams at once
- Player controls for subtitles, audio tracks, aspect ratio, playback speed, quality profiles, Cast, and external-player handoff
- Quality limits by connection or title, with automatic adjustment for supported adaptive streams
Recording And Playback
- Scheduled and background DVR recording for live channels
- Record a live stream while watching and save DVR recordings to shared network folders
- Offline VOD downloads with grouped episode handling and completed-file local playback
- Program reminders from guide entries when you want a notification without scheduling a recording
- Recording schedules account for conflicts and recover from interrupted jobs
- App-managed default recording folder with optional custom storage selection
- In-app playback for completed recordings with a visible on-player recording indicator during active capture
- Fine-tune decoder and timeout settings for device compatibility
- Extra audio-codec support for streams some devices cannot play, with playback diagnostics
- When a stream fails, automatically try a compatible version and resume with track choices intact
Movies And Series
- Two VOD layouts:
- Modern shelf-based browsing
- Classic left-sidebar category browsing
- Detailed info pages for movies and series
- Continue watching, playback history, and detail-screen resume actions with saved position context
- Search OpenSubtitles, load local SRT files, and customize subtitle timing and appearance
- Navigate chapters, skip intros and recaps, and start the next episode at the credits
- Group alternate versions and choose which movie or series version to play
- Organize M3U entries into Movies or Series, with editable episode groups
- Pin favorite VOD categories and search Stalker Movies and Series catalogs
- Long-press VOD categories and custom groups for actions like hide, rename, delete, or reorder when applicable
- In-player episode switching for series
- Previous and Next episode controls in the playback overlay
- Automatic next-episode playback when another episode is available
Parental Controls
- Hide categories completely
- Lock categories behind a PIN
- Option to hide locked content from browsing views
- Adult-category detection using provider flags and category naming heuristics
Languages And Device Support
- English plus 37 translated locale packs currently ship with the app
- Locale coverage is broader and rendering is more reliable across supported languages
- Built for TV first; phones and tablets are supported, but not the primary design target
Appearance
- Choose from Classic blue, M3 purple, Light, Forest, Sunset, Ocean, Rose, AMOLED Black, and Vintage themes
- Modern, theme-aware screens across Live TV, VOD details, search, split screen, and Settings
- Android TV Watch Next integration
- Launcher recommendations and TV entry points
- Android TV Input Framework channel sync
- Google Cast sender support
- Cast a movie, the resume episode, or a selected episode from its detail page
Plugins
- StreamVault can be extended with companion Android APK plugins.
- Plugin developers can expose provider, playback, Cast URL rewrite, and host-rendered or native configuration capabilities.
- See the StreamVault Plugin API docs to create compatible plugins.
Stremio-compatible Add-ons
- Install Stremio-compatible add-ons from a manifest URL and browse their catalogs from the Extensions area.
- Browse catalogs and find metadata, streams, and subtitles across enabled add-ons.
- Play direct or debrid streams.
- Save progress, continue watching, and download supported streams for offline playback from Downloads.
- Plugins and Stremio-compatible Add-ons are grouped under one Extensions navigation item with separate, focusable tabs.
- Stremio-compatible Add-ons are open by default. Use Settings → Privacy → Hide Stremio-compatible add-ons to hide them independently of IPTV parental controls.
Trakt
- Sign in to sync watched history and scrobble playback; manage watchlists, ratings, and custom lists, and browse Trending or Popular titles.
Backup And Restore
- Create and manage local Android TV backups or Google Drive snapshots, then restore providers, favorites, groups, and playback history.
- New backup exports can include provider credentials so restored providers can sync without entering passwords again.
- Exported backup files contain provider passwords in readable form; keep them private.
Quick TV Tips
- Long-press a channel, movie, or series to add it to Favorites or a custom group.
- Long-press a live category to open category actions such as pin, hide, lock or unlock, and custom-group actions like reorder.
- In Movies and Series, long-press categories or custom groups for hide or group-management actions where available.
- Long-press a live channel to queue it for Split Screen.
- Use the number keys on a remote while in the player to jump directly to a channel.
- While watching a series, open Episodes in the player to switch episodes without backing out to the details page.
Download
- Download latest StreamVault.apk
- On Android TV, use Downloader code
6443624 to get StreamVault.
- The app can also detect and download newer releases in-app through GitHub Releases.
- GitHub Actions still runs build and test validation on pushes and pull requests.
- GitHub Releases are now published only when the workflow is started manually with
workflow_dispatch, so versioned releases do not get created by mistake on every push.
Support
If StreamVault is useful to you, you can support development here:
Project Structure
app/ Android app UI, navigation, dependency injection, and Android TV integrationsdata/ Room database, sync, parsing, provider implementations, and repositoriesdomain/ models, repository contracts, managers, and use casesplayer/ playback abstraction and Media3 player implementationdocs/ architecture notes, plugin API docs, and image assets
Build
Requirements:
- Android Studio
- Android SDK
- JDK 17 or another Gradle-supported JDK 17 runtime
- Android NDK only if you want to rebuild the bundled Media3 FFmpeg extension locally
Useful commands:
./gradlew assembleDebug
./gradlew assembleRelease
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest
Notes
- StreamVault is an IPTV client, not a content provider.
- Use only playlists, streams, and guide sources you are authorized to access.
- Local configuration and signing files are intentionally excluded from git.
License
This project was originally released without an explicit license.
As of April 2026, all usage, modification, and distribution are governed by the StreamVault Source-Available License (Non-Commercial).
Any use of this project must comply with the terms defined in the LICENSE file.
StreamVault is a free, TV-first IPTV player for Android TV built with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, Hilt and Media3. It lets you connect your own M3U, Xtream Codes, Stalker Portal or Jellyfin sources (plus Stremio-compatible add-ons) and watch Live TV, Movies and Series with a remote-friendly interface.