Google TV suggests a movie and opens whatever streaming app it happened to come from. TvRecommendationBridge catches that click and sends it straight to the player you actually chose.
6
player apps supported
€4.99
one-time, not a subscription
5
devices per license
On a recommendation click
"Dune"
recommended on the launcher home screen
Identified via TMDB
Dune (2021) — not the 1984 original
Opens in Stremio
the player you picked in Settings
Opens directly in whichever you use
See it in action
Real screen recording, unedited: a recommendation opens in Nuvio, then "Recommended for you" builds rows from what was watched, then a trailer plays straight from the recommendation row.
How it works
Android's Accessibility API lets an app observe what's on screen for assistive purposes. TvRecommendationBridge uses it narrowly — watching only for clicks on the launcher's recommendation cards. Every other click, app icons, menus, anything that isn't a recommendation, is left completely alone.
You select a recommendation. TvRecommendationBridge sees that click's payload — nothing else on screen.
Looked up against TMDB with a bundled key — nothing to set up. Remakes and same-named sequels get disambiguated, not guessed.
Opens straight in your chosen player — or shows a "Watch now" button first, if you'd rather confirm before it does.
Fire OS disables the standard Android Accessibility method for any app not installed from the Amazon Appstore — the same method every recommendation-redirect app depends on. The usual workaround is temporarily rooting your Fire TV Stick and replacing Fire OS's own launcher with Google TV's.
TvRecommendationBridge doesn't ask you to do any of that. Fire TV mode reads the recommendation's title straight off the screen using on-device text recognition — nothing recorded leaves the device. Grant Usage access and a one-time screen-recording permission, and it runs from your actual Fire TV home screen, no root, no launcher swap.
No root, no replacing Fire OS's launcher
Text recognition runs on-device — nothing uploaded
Honest about the tradeoff: hold still on a card for a couple seconds and confirm with OK — not instant like Google TV, but it works
Setup — one time
Open the app — Fire TV is detected automatically and shows the right button
Grant Usage access — Settings → Apps → Special app access
Accept the one-time screen-recording permission
Android keeps a recording indicator visible while it's active — a system requirement, not something we add.
Matching
When two titles share an exact name but not a year — a remake, say — TvRecommendationBridge asks which one you meant instead of guessing.
Pick once, and it's remembered: the same title never has to ask twice. And when one candidate is obviously the popular pick — a new release next to a decades-old obscurity — it skips the question entirely.
Turn it off from Settings → "Ask when a match is ambiguous" if you'd rather it always pick automatically.
"Dune" — two exact matches
Recommended again later — opens the 2021 pick directly, no question shown
Also included
Already on your own server? Opens straight there instead of your usual player — no search needed.
Optional confirm button before opening, so a stray click never redirects you by accident.
Sends YouTube recommendations to SmartTube or TizenTube Cobalt instead — independent of your movie/show player.
One license, up to 5 TVs. See every linked device and unlink any of them, anytime.
A screen inside the app suggesting more movies and shows based on what you've actually opened — via TMDB, with separate Movies/Series tabs, trailers on hold, and watch history shared across every TV linked to your account.
Pricing
Pay once and it's yours. No recurring charge, no account, no password — just the email you paid with.
Free trial
2 days
no card needed, once per device
Lifetime
€4.99
paid once, yours for good
Scan the QR code shown in the app with your phone, pay with the same email, then verify it on the TV.
Installation
Not on Google Play yet. Grab the APK from the latest release, then pick whichever route suits you.
Downloader code
4414843
Always points to the latest version
Enable developer options: Settings → Device Preferences → About → tap "Build" 7 times, turn on Network debugging, then from your computer:
adb connect <tv-ip>:5555
adb install app-release.apkFull walkthrough, screenshots included: the visual install guide.
Any Google TV device — Chromecast with Google TV, or a Google TV edition from Sony, TCL, Hisense — or any Fire TV device, via Fire TV mode above. Plus one of the six player apps already installed.