Launch new Android TV applicationĬompany Domain: ( or you can use your own domain name ) Target Android Devices Add an activity to TVĪndroid studio automatically generate the source codes to start this Tutorial. Basically this tutorial is just detail explanation of this sample source code. Note that most of the code introduced here is from AOSP android TV sample source code. Since Eclipse support will be finished at the end of 2015, Android studio will be used for the IDE to develop Android TV apps (So please download and setup Android studio, if you have not yet done!).

developed Android app before, but not familiar with Android TV app.

The target of this post is people those who, This tutorial mainly explain the usage of this Leanback library. To achieve this requirement, Android open source project is providing Leanback Support library ( ) so that developers can easily implement UI which satisfies these requirements and thus suitable for TV usage.

Because user uses remote controller, and cannot use “touch screen” function with TV. The aim of this post is to understand Android “TV” specific code implementation, especially focusing on UI implementaion.īecause UI is one of the biggest difference between Android phone app and Android TV app. We need to make UI suitable for TV usage, for example we should make an app so that we can navigate the application only using ↑↓→← direction keys, instead of touchpad navigation. In this series of tutorial, I will introduce how to develop Android TV application.

2.5.2 To show application icon in Leanback launcherĪndroid TV application development introductionĬurrently, we have still not enough introduction for Android TV application development yet.

2.5.1 To show activity icon in Leanback launcher.

2.4 Adding setupUIElements() to MainFragment.java.

1 Android TV application development introduction.

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