Zangetsu v1.8.0 — New Cloud Backend, TV Sign-In & Live TV

Zangetsu v1.8.0 — New Cloud Backend, TV Sign-In & Live TV

☁️ Rebuilt cloud sync. Moved to a new, faster backend — My List, Continue Watching, Watch Party & Cloud Backup sync reliably again

📺 Native TV player. Smoother hardware-decoded playback on Android TV — Dolby/DTS audio, Netflix-style controls, Sub/Dub toggle, and no more screensaver mid-show.

📱 Sign in on TV with your phone. Scan a QR or type a short code — no more typing on the remote.

🔔 Push notifications. Get announcements and update alerts.

🔴 Live TV. CloudStream live channels (PlayzTV, etc.) now play.

🎉 Watch Party rebuilt on realtime — lighter and more reliable.

🎨 Appearance. Custom accent colour + AMOLED theme (Settings → Appearance).

⚡ Playback. Video buffer presets + clear-cache (Settings → Cache).

Plus fixes: Continue Watching persistence after restart, casting reliability, Aniyomi repo installs, and multi-source CloudStream plugins.

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Which APK do I download?

• Phone: arm64-v8a (most phones) or armeabi-v7a (older 32-bit phones). Not sure? Use universal.
• Android TV / Fire TV: tv (works on any TV, 32-bit or 64-bit).
• universal works on everything but is larger.

Zangetsu v1.7.0 — Schedule, Aniyomi & a New TV Player

✨ What's new

📅 Schedule tab
A brand-new Schedule tab — a compact weekly anime airing calendar (what's on today and all week, with live countdowns) plus upcoming movies & TV. Tap anything to find it across your sources. Available on phone and Android TV.

🧩 Aniyomi extension support
Load Aniyomi anime extensions right alongside CloudStream — per-source search filters, a per-source settings gear, and an NSFW source toggle.

📺 A new Android TV video player
TV now uses a hardware-accelerated ExoPlayer player that stays smooth even at 4K:

• Side-loaded + embedded subtitles, preferred-language online subtitle search, and caption styling
• Audio-track and Sub/Dub switching, per-source quality & server menus
• Torrent playback with a buffering overlay + up-next autoplay
• Continue Watching on TV
• Hold OK to fast-forward 2×, Netflix-style auto-hiding controls, and a cleaner back/exit

🔎 Search ecosystem tabs
Search now splits into All / Zangetsu / CloudStream / Aniyomi tabs.

🧭 Redesigned Sources / Providers
The sources screen is now a clean hub that splits into Zangetsu / CloudStream / Aniyomi ecosystem screens, with per-ecosystem update counts and add-repo buttons.

🔎 Download-sheet episode search
When downloading, search/filter the episode list by title or number — no more scrolling through hundreds of episodes to find the one you want (phone + TV).

♾️ Infinite scroll
Endless "See all" browsing for Aniyomi + CloudStream.

👋 Community welcome
A one-time sheet to join the Telegram / Discord community.

🐛 Fixes

• MovieBox and other DASH/HLS sources now play on TV ("Could not load this episode" fixed)
• CloudStream: Cloudflare-fronted HLS now plays; extensions needing ui.settings.Globals load again
• Backup: the restore file picker no longer greys out .json files
• Player: correctly switches to Dub when a source keys sub/dub per episode

Zangetsu v1.6.0 — Android TV, Torrents & Backup

🎉 New

• 📺 Android TV support — the whole app now works on TV with a remote: D-pad navigation everywhere, on-screen keyboard search, and a full TV player.
• 🧲 Torrent support — play and download magnet / .torrent sources. Streams start while downloading; offline downloads keep going in the background and save into your folder. (Wi-Fi-only by default — toggle in Settings › Torrents.)
• 💾 Backup & Restore — save your sources, library & settings to a file and restore them any time (Settings › Backup & Restore).
• 📂 Choose your download folder — pick any folder for downloads (SD card supported), plus a new Downloads tab with collapsible groups, search, and a storage summary.

✨ Improvements

• Sharing — share any title with a deep link that opens straight to it in the app.
• Forgot password — reset via email with a branded reset page.
• Settings redesign — cleaner, organized into clear sections.
• In-app diagnostic log — Settings › Share logs, to send a log if you hit an issue.

⚡ Performance & reliability

• Much lighter on data & cloud usage — smaller, cached avatars, throttled library sync, and far fewer background writes, so sync stays reliable.
• My List self-heals — items added while offline sync up automatically once you're back online.
• CloudStream fixes — more sources install and show their own settings; torrent sources no longer dropped; clearer install errors.

Zangetsu v1.5.0 — Watch Party, Auto Subtitles & Source Updates

✨ What's new in 1.5.0

👥 Watch Party

Watch together with friends in perfect sync. Create or join a room and everyone follows the host's play / pause / seek live. Includes in‑player text chat, a participants list, request‑to‑control, and automatic host hand‑off if the host drops.

💬 Auto subtitles

Subtitles now auto‑select your preferred language and download a matching track automatically — including Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Urdu, Malayalam) alongside the usual English/European ones. Pick your language in Settings → Playback.

🔄 CloudStream source updates

Installed CloudStream sources now tell you when an update is available — with a per‑source Update button, Update all, and an optional "source updates available" notification on launch. Toggle it in Settings → Notifications.

➕ More sources, faster

• One‑tap recommended CloudStream repos in the "CS Add repo" dialog.
• Same‑named extensions from different repos can now be installed side by side.
• Recently‑resolved stream links are cached briefly, so re‑opening an episode starts almost instantly.

▶️ Player

• Added SPlayer to the external‑player options.
• Resume is far more reliable — it actually picks up where you left off, even on flaky hosts.

🛠️ Fixes & polish

• In‑app updates download the right APK for your device and verify it — fixes "package appears to be invalid".
• Downloads retry & resume instead of restarting from 0 on flaky hosts.
• CloudStream plugin settings, Stremio add‑ons, and source labels (origin repo) fixed up.
• Cloudflare clearances persist across restarts.

Zangetsu v1.4.0 — Smarter Search, Source Health & Title Logos

✨ New

• Revamped search — searches on Enter (not every keystroke), live suggestions for anime and movies/series, results
  grouped by source (fastest first), "See all" per source, and a Vertical/Horizontal layout choice. Search just the
  current source or all sources with one tap.
• Source health (Settings → Source health) — test which of your sources are actually working, at a glance.
• Title logos on the home banner — the official stylized title artwork, with a clean text fallback.
• Detail pages now ease in with a smooth shimmer.

🛠 Fixed & improved

• ~30 movie sources (MovieBox, VegaMovies, HDHub4U, BollyFlix, MoviesDrive…) that returned nothing in search now work.
• No more "verifying" pop-ups during search — Cloudflare-protected sources solve quietly when you open a title instead.
• Smoother Home (fixed the MovieBox lag / occasional crash) and the source ⇄ all-sources toggle no longer flickers.
• Movie trailers & cast restored, and About now shows the correct version.

Zangetsu v1.3.0 — Notifications, Discord Rich Presence, DNS

✨ New

• New-episode notifications — tap the bell on any show to get alerted when a new episode drops (background for
  CloudStream sources, on-open for others), and tap the alert to jump straight in. Manage them in Settings →
  Notifications.
• Discord Rich Presence — show "Watching … • Episode N" with the cover on your Discord profile. Settings →
  Discord.
• In-app DNS over HTTPS — Cloudflare / Google / AdGuard / Quad9 to bypass ISP blocks on CloudStream sources.
  Settings → DNS.
• MegaSkip — configurable jump-forward button.
• AniList / MyAnimeList / Simkl lists viewable inside My List.

Improved

• Player: CloudStream-style volume / pinch-zoom / side-rail HUD, up-next, auto source-failover, fixed
  audio-ahead-of-video desync, and a native Cloudflare solver for JS sources.
• Downloads: retry + resume on flaky hosts instead of restarting.

Fixes

• Lag and crashes fixed

Zangetsu v1.2.0

Zangetsu v1.2.0

Changes since v1.1.0.

Player

• Volume slider reworked: 0–100% sets the system volume, above 100% adds a software boost (up to 200%,
  shown in red).
• Pinch to zoom (up to 4×) with pan; double-tap to seek now shows a ripple at the tap point.
• Brightness/volume indicator moved to a vertical bar on the side you swipe.
• Shows the poster while a stream loads instead of a black screen.
• "Up next" card now shows the next episode's thumbnail, plus a Next Episode button near the end.
• Auto-switches to another server if a stream stalls mid-playback, resuming at the same time.
• Subtitle styling (font, colour, background, position, size) with 10 bundled fonts, plus online
  subtitle search.
• Remembers playback speed and quality per title.
• Hardware decoding enabled; faster playback start.
• Audio normalisation option.

Sources

• Support for Cloudflare-protected sources (e.g. AnimePahe).
• Per-source settings (domain picker, etc.).
• Sub/Dub selection for CS anime.
• HLS playback fixes for disguised / multi-host CDNs.

Downloads

• Fixed downloads restarting from 0% on unstable hosts — they now retry and resume from where they left
  off.

App

• In-app updates: checks GitHub for new versions and installs them from here on.
• Detail screen transitions and small UI fixes.

Zangetsu v1.1.0 --- CloudStream support , so many changes

Zangetsu v1.1.0

The biggest update yet — CloudStream extension support lands, plus Picture-in-Picture, full tracker
sync, Cast & Relations, and a pile of player and download improvements.

CloudStream support (new!)

• Add a repo, then install the sources you want — one by one (no auto-installing the whole repo).
• CloudStream sources work in Home, Search, Details, and playback (with subtitles).
• Enable/disable individual sources, check for updates, remove a repo — from a clean, grouped
  CloudStream tab.
• Tracker sync + Cast/Relations for CloudStream titles too (AniList/MAL for anime, Simkl for
  movies/series); when a source has no IDs, Zangetsu resolves it via TMDB so it still tracks and shows
  full cast + related titles.
• Faster home loading and a clear "couldn't load" message for dead sources.

Search — CloudStream sources now appear in results, plus a per-source search picker (categorised
Anime / Movies & Series / NSFW) to switch sources off for search only.

Player — Picture-in-Picture (Android) with a PiP button + auto-PiP setting, and external player
support with automatic fallback to the built-in player.

Trackers — AniList, MyAnimeList & Simkl auto-scrobble for anime, movies and series.

Details — new Cast and Relations tabs with photos and tap-to-open related titles.

Downloads — offline soft subtitles and a Sub/Dub selector.

Other — redesigned source switcher, cleaner Settings, "See All" grids, NSFW gate, provider
cache-busting, and assorted fixes.

Zangetsu v1.0.0 — first release.

Highlights

• Anime and movie/series streaming with an in-app source switcher
• Player: gesture controls (brightness/volume), scrub preview, skip intro, sub/dub, quality selection, subtitles
• My List and Continue Watching with cross-device sync
• Offline downloads
• Sources included out of the box: AllAnime and HiAnime (anime); 4K HDHub, UHD Movies, and HDHub4u (movies and series)