A remote that gets answered, and casts that start

Three things that looked like the app ignoring you: a search box that swallowed the OK button, a cast that spun until it gave up, and a download that played and was then forgotten.

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Fixes

Search fields answer the remote. Pressing OK on a search or address field did nothing at all. Opening the field takes away the button the press landed on, and Ventic read focus falling to nowhere as focus leaving - so it closed the field a tick before it could open, and on Android the keyboard never came up with it.
The cast settings can be reached with a remote. "This device is called" and the pairing code sat under a transparent target of exactly the same size, so every press aimed at them landed on something that could not take focus.
Casting starts the film instead of spinning. Picking a device now waits for the network scan to actually be down, not merely asked to stop: the probes already in flight were the ones competing with the television opening its connection, which is why pressing Play the moment the dialog opened behaved differently from waiting for the list to fill. And the receiving screen now gives the stream the patience it gives its own downloads - it was being timed like a debrid link and allowed fifteen seconds, while waking a film up across the network took ten on the first request alone. A cast that was working was routinely called dead.
Playing from the Downloads page counts. A film started there was a bare magnet: it played perfectly and was then forgotten - no progress, no History, no Continue watching. It now plays as the title it was downloaded for, and inside a season pack the right episode is recorded rather than none at all.

Also

The Google Play copy and the download from ventic.tv are now built separately, because the store forbids an app it ships from installing an APK. Nothing changes on your side: the copy from ventic.tv still updates itself, and a Play install is updated by Play.
0.5.4 was that build change and nothing else, and was never published - this release is 0.5.3 → 0.5.5 for everyone.