Cherry TV — IPTV player with on-device AI

The problem

Existing IPTV apps are functional but rough, lean on the cloud for recommendations and demand setup. There was room for a carefully built experience — private, with free DTT channels and zero friction.

What I built

An IPTV player for Android (live TV, movies and series from Xtream Codes or M3U) that also ships 226 free DTT channels (12 countries + international) with zero configuration, and AI/ML running on the device itself (nothing goes to the cloud).

• On-device recommendations with a 10-factor engine and fuzzy search (TF-IDF + trigrams), < 50 ms across 10,000 channels.
• 10 native Kotlin modules of my own (Cast, PiP, recording, speech recognition, HLS prebuffer…), ExoPlayer playback, glassmorphism UI.
• Clean architecture with boundaries enforced by ESLint; encrypted storage (AES-256).

Technical metrics (verifiable, in the docs)

• 1,819 tests / 133 suites · 79 languages · per-domain coverage gates.
• Performance measured on a real device (p50/p99 frame times documented).
• Status: pre-launch (Play Store submission planned).

Stack

React Native 0.81 (New Architecture + Hermes) · React 19 · TypeScript (strict) · Kotlin (10 native modules) · react-native-video (ExoPlayer) · Reanimated 4 · HeroUI Native + uniwind (Tailwind 4 RN) · FlashList · MMKV · on-device AI in pure TypeScript.

Private repository · app in pre-launch.