building apps for apple tv

Building Apps for Apple TVby David Olesch

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Should you make an app for Apple TV?

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In 2014, watching TV accounted for more than

half of leisure time.1

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Building Apps for Apple TV1. tvOS frameworks

2. Using open source libraries

3. Managing data on tvOS

4. Limitations of tvOS

5. tvOS design

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Two options for writing code

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tvOS inherits many frameworks from iOS

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Does Cocoapods support the tvOS platform?

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Not all Cocoapods libraries support the tvOS platform

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If a library doesn't yet support tvOS (Step 1.)# LibraryName.podspec

s.tvos.deployment_target = '9.0'

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If a library doesn't yet support tvOS (Step 2.)

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If a library doesn't yet support tvOS (Step 3.)// SomeClass.m

#if TARGET_OS_IOS- (void)updateMotionEffectForOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)orientation;#elif TARGET_OS_TV- (void)updateMotionEffect;#endif

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Many open source libraries have been updated to work

with tvOS.

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Local storage can be deleted at any time !

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iCloud Key-Value Storelimited to 1MB // Writing to iCloud.

NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore *store = [NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore defaultStore]; if (store != nil) { [store setObject:object forKey:key]; [store synchronize]; }

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iCloud Key-Value Storelimited to 1MB

// Reading from iCloud.

NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore *store = [NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore defaultStore]; id object = [store objectForKey:key];

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Apple TV is controlled by the new Siri Remote

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Building Apps for Apple TV1. tvOS frameworks

2. Using open source libraries

3. Managing data on tvOS

4. Limitations of tvOS

5. tvOS design

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LimitationsNo push notifications

No app badges

No web views

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Apple TV Designshould be primarily grid based

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Take advantage of the Top Shelf

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Take advantage of the Top Shelf

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Take advantage of the Top Shelf#pragma mark - TVTopShelfProvider protocol

- (TVTopShelfContentStyle)topShelfStyle { return TVTopShelfContentStyleSectioned; //return TVTopShelfContentStyleInset;}- (NSArray *)topShelfItems { return @[[[TVContentItem alloc] init]];}

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Questions?

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Join me at the Apple TV Hackathon

Capital Factory 5th Floor

November 22nd 8:30 am - 7:30 pmDavidOlesch.com 25