TV Apps in the Wild
summary
Describes shipping a single React Native codebase to six TV platforms including Apple TV and Android TV using react-native-tvos and expanding to Samsung and LG via a webview served by react-native-web as a show app. Describes building Nine Now, running on dozens of physical devices for QA, notes many TVs have only 1–2 GB RAM and single core CPUs, that memory leaks appear after 2–5 hour sessions, and that a custom directed graph focus system complements open source options like react-tv-space-navigation; Expo SDK 50 adds official TV support.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to TV apps
- 3:56Platform fragmentation in TVs
- 8:35Developing TV applications
- 12:07Input methods on TVs
- 16:02Why TV apps matter
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