Serika Streaming – Android TV

Android TV wrapper app for Serika Streaming.

Overview

Expo/React Native app using a WebView to load the Serika Streaming website. It:

• Shows a loading screen while the site initialises
• Navigates to /login?platform=androidtv so the website sets X-Serika-Platform: android-tv and hides Chromecast UI
• Handles the hardware Back button (go back in history or exit)
• Keeps the screen awake during use

Project Structure

├── App.tsx                  # Root component – loading screen + WebView
├── index.ts                 # Expo entry point
├── app.json                 # Expo / EAS config
├── eas.json                 # EAS Build profiles (APK)
├── plugins/
│   └── withAndroidTV.js     # Config plugin: adds leanback uses-feature
├── assets/
│   └── icon.png             # App icon
└── .env.example             # Environment variable reference

Requirements

• Node.js 18+
• EAS CLI: npm install -g eas-cli
• An Expo account

Setup

npm install
eas login

Building the APK

# Production APK (uploaded to EAS, downloadable from dashboard)
eas build --platform android --profile production

# Or via the npm script
npm run build:apk

The first build will prompt you to create a new keystore or use an existing one. EAS manages this automatically.

Sideloading to an Android TV

1. Download the .apk from your EAS dashboard
2. Transfer to a USB drive or use adb
3. Via ADB:

   adb connect <tv-ip>:5555
   adb install SerikaStreaming.apk

4. The app will appear in the TV's Apps row under the Leanback launcher

Configuration

The target URL is hardcoded in App.tsx:

const WEBSITE_URL = 'https://streaming.serika.dev';

License

See LICENSE.