If you haven’t tried out TVZion yet, you won’t regret giving it ago now - the App is fairly versatile as it works with Android TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android for Mobile, similar to the build of Popcorn Time from one of my previous Articles. Instead of going down the route of supporting the Leanback Library like Popcorn Time does, they’ve opted to create their own Netflix-style navigation. It’s good but it leaves much to be desired, I much prefer the look and style of Material Design for Android TV and Mobile. The filters on the front screen show films in different categories, I always find it repeats Films in the lists, which is bad for discovery.



The TV App doesn’t support Voice Search yet, which doesn’t make it easy to find exactly what you want without using a clunky on-screen Keyboard, unless you use your Mobile device to type. I found that it was really good for hard-to-find TV shows, but occasionally the episode was labelled incorrectly and played a completely different TV show.

what is the developer playing at?!

I have to commend the Developers of the App, they kept up a very healthy update cycle. Pretty much, every time I launch the App there’s a new update waiting for me - I wish this can be done silently in the background but that might be an Android limitation then anything else, as this app won't go anywhere near the Play Store! TVZion isn’t without its drama, recently one of the Dev’s took to Reddit to vent his frustration of people modifying his APK’s to be ad-free - similar things are done to Showbox, there’s always an Ad-free APK on reddit somewhere… this isn’t what caused a fuss, it was more so the actions he was proposing to take against these modders;





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“I have realized that none of those suggestions mentioned is a solution. If anything they are the problem. Mods exist and a lot of apps are surviving through that, without doing any of that.



If my app can't survive without implementing those solutions, then it's my failure, not the users, or the modders. Considering that and the fact that I need a break from all this, at the moment this is what I have decided for the time being”

one of which involved recording the IP addresses of the people using Modded APK’s and threatening to keep a hold of them for future reference. Luckily for everyone this isn’t going to happen! The Dev took to reddit to apologize and clear a few things out:

Check out the whole Reddit Thread, He followed with a couple of points on what he plans on doing with the App next: