LeanCast
FREE & OPEN SOURCE (APACHE-2.0) · ANDROID TV

LeanCast

Ad-free DLNA / UPnP cast receiver for Android TV — lighter than your TV launcher.

Open any video app with a cast button (Bilibili, iQiyi, Tencent Video, Youku, Quark, …), pick LeanCast, and play fullscreen with hardware decoding — no ads, no accounts, no cloud.

LeanCast TV Dashboard
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Standard UPnP AV MediaRenderer — Ready on Boot

Full SSDP discovery, SOAP control, and real GENA eventing. Appears immediately in any video app cast menu with a customizable receiver name, persistent device UUID across reinstalls, and optional boot auto-start.

Select Cast Device (UPnP / DLNA) SSDP Active
LeanCast
LeanCast — Living Room TV
MediaRenderer:1 · Ready
CONNECTED
Bilibili iQiyi Tencent Video Youku Quark
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TV-Native Remote Controls & Escalating 10s → 5m Seek OSD

Built for your TV remote: OK pauses/resumes, holding Left/Right triggers an escalating seek ladder (10s → 30s → 1m → 5m), accompanied by a clean bilingual HUD showing live progress and media title.

LeanCast Player OSD
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Lighter Than Stock TV Launcher: ~33 MB RAM & 5 MB Universal APK

Uses only ~33 MB private RAM when idle (0% CPU) and ~4–5% CPU while hardware-decoding 1080p video. Pure-Kotlin APK with zero native .so libraries — one 5 MB file runs on ARM32, ARM64, x86, and x86_64.

LeanCast (Idle / Standby) ~33 MB RAM · 0% CPU
Typical Commercial Cast Apps (with Ads & Cloud SDKs) 180–260 MB RAM
5 MB Universal APK ARM32 · ARM64 · x86 · x86_64
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100% LAN-Only Operation — Zero Ads, Zero Cloud, Zero Tracking

Hardware decoding via Media3/ExoPlayer and platform MediaCodec for HLS (.m3u8), MP4, and MKV. Makes zero non-LAN network calls.

100% LOCAL WI-FI / LAN TOPOLOGY 0 Cloud Calls
Phone / Pad
SSDP + SOAP + GENA
── LAN ──▶
Android TV
MediaCodec HW Decode
HLS (.m3u8) · MP4 · MKV · No Account · No Telemetry

Device Compatibility & Specifications

Minimum OS Android 5.0+ (minSdk 21)
Architectures ARM32 · ARM64 · x86 · x86_64
APK Size ~5 MB (Pure Kotlin)
Compatible Devices Android TV · Google TV · Fire TV
Network & Privacy 100% LAN-Only · Zero Ads
License Apache-2.0 License