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Blank thumbnails on Android TV home screen

On Android TV Oreo. Once a video has been partly watched, a "TV recommendation" is added to home screen to quickly continue watching.

Problem: Thumbnails of these "shortcuts" are blank/empty, and logcat says something like: ActivityManager: Permission Denial: opening provider org.videolan.vlc.FileProvider from ProcessRecord{7ebd5b9 3932:com.google.android.tvlauncher/u0a33} (pid=3932, uid=10033) that is not exported from UID 10082

Solution: Provider org.videolan.vlc.thumbprovider should be set to exported=true into manifest

Before:

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After:

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