I have worked on developing an android app for mobile platform in past. Now I need to create an android app for the the TV platform. I am new to the TV part . Any useful links/information would help.
Thanks
You cannot create applications for Google TV yet.
When this becomes possible, there will be plenty of useful links/information at that time.
Sorry!
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I have been developed cinema android application in java that show some movies and series the application is work very good
know I want to make that app work on smart TV is there is any way to do that or should I develop another app specified for TV
Unfortunately most of Smart TV are based on web technologies (HTML5, CSS JavaScript) but some manufacturers have been including Android TV as TV platform (Sony, Phillips, Thompson...)
Depending of your development, you can migrate directly (or making few changes) your current app to the Android TV requirements
For other TV platforms, like LG (webos) Samsung (Tizen) etc you will need to create your app using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and use the SDK to access native functions
BR
I develop games for IOS devices and I wanted to make games for android devices as well. The problem is I dont think you can do it with Android Studios alone. correct ?
In IOS development we have Spritekit, which helps us make games and good ones.
Does Android Studios have anything similar to that ? I've looked up many sites and I cant find the answer. I see many android developers use Unity, buildblocks, etc. To make games. Is this the only way to make the games for android devices or can you make exact games like the ones in unity and Spritekit by only using Android Studios ?
Thank You In Advance !
You definitely can create games with Android Studio alone -- creating your own game engine is one way.
If you mean using a ready game engine, an excellent alternative is libgdx - https://libgdx.badlogicgames.com - but there are others.
After a lot of searching I cannot find the answer to this. My fire tv app was rejected by Amazon because the app doesn't appear under settings > manage installed devices in Fire OS. What is odd is this is not an issue for Android TV and I can see it in the app manager in setting there. Any idea what I could be doing wrong for the fire tv devices? Amazon has been zero help.
Thanks!
The issue is amazon only supports part of the Android Leanback Support Library. How we are supposed to know everything it does or does not support is unknown to me and is a really poor implementation on Amazon's part.
https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/devices/fire-tv/docs/amazon-fire-tv-differences-from-android-tv-development
"Fire TV supports some but not all of Android’s Leanback Support Library. Fire TV uses TV-specific UI components from Leanback, and Leanback widgets will work, but if you tag an activity for the Leanback Launcher, the activity will not work. Specifically, Fire TV does not acknowledge the activity category CATEGORY_LEANBACK_LAUNCHER."
I would recommend being cautious of your reliance on android leanback support with fire tv which really hurts code reusablity for software developers. Your app will still work but you may be missing the entry in settings like my current issue. Hopefully Amazon adds better support for the leanback support library going forward.
Hi, I'm planning to learn android app development, but I don't have any Android device. Can I still learn it using my Windows machine?
If so, how to check the output? And can any one suggest me a good tutorial for beginners.
Yes you can develop android application.
You will require....
A IDE like Eclipse.
Android SDK --- This includes an android emulator.
Note:-- Some functionalities are not supported by android emulator and for that you will require android phone.
Yes you can use windows, and there is a simulator that shows a "virtual" android device thats part of the SDK
http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html
The Android Guide has everything you need to know to get started. If you want to test on a real device (and you probably should if at all possible financially), you can either purchase a developer phone from Google or you can buy a cheap (relatively) used one on eBay.
you will need Eclipse and SDK for android
http://developer.android.com/index.html from this you will get lots of help
http://www.deviceanywhere.com/Test-Automation
visit the link above. This site lets you test through the web on real devices. It is a paid service though so you might have to decide which one would be cheaper, buying an android
phone or testing through this site.
Hope this helps.
I am an ANDROID app developer,
i just need to know, that what are the conditions and things ,to create app for android tablets.
Is there any registration fees apart from the $25, where should i register and how to develop, is it different from android mobile app development.
Plz suggest.
Regards
No there are no significant changes as of yet. However, the 3.0 SDK will add several new features we haven't used before as well as hardware acceleration. sweet! :) good luck!