I have developed an Android app which works well on mobiles and tablets. Recently I have installed it on Amazon fireTV and I see that some screens are not responding for touch events. I tried using the physical remote and the Amazon fireTV remote app but no use.
I have a screen with list of videos and I want to go through each of them but I couldn't do it. I have read that most (75%) of the Android apps work fine on Amazon fireTV. Do I have to develop my app using any Amazon SDK to make it work on TV? Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.
NOTE: Posted this question in Android Enthusiasts but I got to know it's off-topic there, so I'm posting it here.
In order to work well, there are some things you need to do differently for TV apps (whether for Amazon Fire TV or Android TV). You can find help for navigation here: https://developer.android.com/training/tv/start/navigation.html
There is also helpful information here:
https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-tv/overview/developing-apps-and-games-for-amazon-fire-tv
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Is it possible to install an android app on Tizen OS device?
I have a samsung watch running Tizen 4.0 and I need to install google fit onto it. This is so that google fit (running on my phone already) can have access to the steps and heart rate sensor data from my watch.
This is because google fit is compatible with many apps and partners whereas samsung health is barely compatible with anything.
Does anyone know how to side load google fit onto a Tizen OS device (or even just enable google fit on the phone to access the wearable sensors)
I do not need to view the google fit app on my watch, although this would be a bonus.
Please keep answers very simple as I have no experience in developing for mobile devices.
Thank you very much in advance,
Anya
Unfortunately, I think it will not be supported: Using APK for Android on Tizen platform...
It is not simple issue - more than just using an java application...
Definitely, since Google fit needs Google Play Service library (A collection of Google-specific features) https://developers.google.com/android/guides/overview,
Tizen Platform also needs to run Google Fit. It is more complicated than running a java application.
I want to develop an app on android that uses screen mirroring with Samsung TV. I'm looking to use my android app screen as a remote(say a game controller) & TV screen to run the actual game. My initial approach was learning google cast but it needs a chromecast dongle which I don't want to use for this project. I want to use Samsung Smart TV's Screen Mirroring feature to do so. After some googling, I figured out that samsung uses Allshare Framework API for screen mirroring/cast but I'm not completely sure on this. I'm currently struggling to find a proper documentation for screen mirroring. If someone can point to the correct documentation link then that'd be awesome. Also, please correct me if I'm wrong with the assumption that this can be achieved using Allshare API only.
It seems Samsung have came out with this new SDK - Samsung Multiscreen SDK( or maybe I've found it now :)). This link should cover most of the questions I've asked above. Also, if you are Unity user, Samsung has their own version of Unity which comes intalled with Samsung Multiscreen Game SDK. But you need to send a partnership request to samsung in order to use this version of Unity. Apart from these two, you can also use Connect SDK which is independent of any technology, i.e. it covers almost every other technology used for Cast. For exmple, if you have a Samsung Smart TV at your home & a Roku connection. With Samsung SDK you can only discover Smart TV but not Roku stick. Whereas, with Connect SDK you can discover Samsung Tv as well as Roku & any other Cast device which is available in your network.
We are currently seeing a problem where mobile devices that surf to our website don't seem to get picked up, not with page view or in realtime or in the events tracking. This all happened since March 15th but we are only now really starting to notice it. Debugging the analytics code snipped based on this https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/articles/gaTrackingTroubleshooting was no problem on desktop but how do you do that on a mobile device. Android Phone or iPhone. Is there any way to debug the tracking code on the phone to make sure it works? We had been successfully using ga.js with async snytax without problems for a good long while.
For testing on iOS 6 and later you can plug your iPhone into your desktop and use your desktop version of Safari as described here by Apple. You can then see the results of the ga_debug.js.
Android has a similar tool, however, it does require you to install the Android SDK.
I'm not too sure about other phone operating systems, but that covers the main two in your question :)
I am trying to make a Smart TV application that can communicate with a mobile application, preferable android. I have tried this tutorials from Samsung Smart TV developers forum:
http://www.samsungdforum.com/Guide/tut00024/index.html
Although it only explains how to find a Smart TV on the same network for android. Not how to communicate with it.
I have got the webbased Chrome version to work, although I cant use it on my phone because you have to run the browser in: --disable-web-security moode.
I have also tried Movl: https://connect.movl.com. But the api key that i got from them and one of the examples available does not work for me. Probably because I am located in Singapore (why, i dont know) but it works for the support staff at Movl and my friend back home in Sweden.
I want to know how I can connect a mobile application to a Smart TV application (also developed by me) and send information between them. Does anyone know how to do that?
Very grateful for answers
DIAL
it is the protocol used by many leading companies to LAUNCH the activity on the smart tv FROM an android smart PHONE
I HOPE THIS WILL BE OF SOME HELP TO YOU
CHEERS
Yes you need to use the N-Screen API. Specifically look into webapis.nservice
Tutorial here: N-Service
I think its time to ask this question since the kindle fire has been out a few days now.
I've been hovering around the net to see just how different android vs kindle fire development differed.
How different are the 2 in terms of developing apps?
Is it true that standard apps in the marketplace aren't available?
See Amazon's FAQ here: https://developer.amazon.com/help/faq.html#KindleFire
Over 75% of android apps will run fine on Kindle Fire as is. As for the apps that don't work, it's because they could be using Google APIs. These APIs have to be replaced with Amazon APIs.
In short, Amazon has tired their best to keep it as simple as possible for an android app developer to switch to Kindle app development.