developing android apps for tv in minutes with amazon fire app builder
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MAR IO V IV IAN IT E C H N O L O G Y E V A N G E L I S T , A M A Z O N A P P S T O R E U K
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D E V E L O P I N G A N D R O I D A P P S
F O R T V I N M I N U T E S W I T H
A M A Z O N F I R E A P P B U I L D E R
I T ’ S A - M E !
M a r i o V i v i a n i
Technology Evangelist, Amazon Appstore UK
@mariuxtheone
Android Developer from 201095+ apps published12,000,000+ downloadsGoogle Developer Expert 2013-15Startup Founder, Co-WorkerSpeaker at: Droidcon, Android Dev Days, Big Android BBQ, Google I/O
Android is Not Just for
Mobile Devices
Android
Android TV Apps based on
Fire OS
Fire TV Apps based on
OS 5BASED ON
ANDROID 5.1
LOLLIPOP
ANDROID STUDIO
A M A Z O N F I R E T V FA C T S
Amazon Fire TV is
#1 BEST SELLINGStreaming Media PlayerIn US, UK and Germany
MANY MILLIONS
OF MINUTES CONSUMED EVERY DAY on Media Streaming Apps on Fire TV in UK (2016)
FIRE TV FAMILY
bit.ly/firetvspecs
TV TV Stick (2015)
4K compatible
Quad-core CPU
2 GB RAM
(2160p)
WiFi – Bluetooth 4.1
8 GB Internal Storage(actual formatted capacity will be less)
USB-A and MicroSD slot
FullHDDual-core CPU
1 GB RAM
(1080p)
WiFi – Bluetooth 3.0
8 GB Internal Storage(actual formatted capacity will be less)
MicroUSB (power only)
TV APPS
TV APPS DEVELOPMENT
Fire TV SDK add-on
v17 Leanback Library
Fire TV SDK add-on
BUILDING APPS
FOR TV
IN MINUTES
F I R E A P P B U I L D E R
STREAMING MEDIA PLAYERS
Plug and Play template for audio and video apps. Create an app in less than 1 hour.
E A S Y, FA S T A N D B E A U T I F U L
Contains modules (plugins) to enable advanced functionality
Handles JSON feeds, branding and customisation
Can be extended with your own code
Supports Amazon Fire TV family
Available: On GithubFeeds: JSON and MRSS
Player: ExoPlayer, CustomUX/UI: Optimised for big screenTheme/Branding: Customisable
IAP: AvailableClosed captioning: AvailableAds: Yes - FreeWheel, VAST
Analytics: Yes - Flurry, Omniture, Crashlytics, 3P
Login: Yes - Amazon, Adobe, Facebook, 3P
Available: On GithubFeeds: JSON, YouTube and MRSS
Player: VisualOn, OVPUX/UI: Optimised for big screenTheme/Branding: Customisable
IAP: AvailableClosed captioning: Available
Ads: OVPAnalytics: Yes
Social Login: No
Web App Starter Kit
M O D U L E S
Social loginsIn-App Purchasing
Ads
Analytics
Media Player AD
F I R E A P P B U I L D E R W O R K F L O W
CONFIGURE YOUR
FEED LAUNCH THE APP!
CUSTOMIZE UI &
MODULAR COMPONENTS
SETUP RECIPE FOR
CATEGORIES AND CONTENTS
JSON
1 . C R E AT E Y O U R C O N T E N T F E E D
JSONMRSS
[{"id":"123456","title":“My Awesome Video",“description":“This is my awesome video","duration":"538","thumbURL":"http://myservice.com/thumbnail1.jpg","imgURL":"http://myservice.com/bigImage.jpg"","videoURL":"http://myservice.com/video.mp4"","categories":[“My Funny Videos”,
“Random Stuff”]}...
]
SUPPORT FOR BOTH
TOKEN AND NON-TOKEN
BASED FEEDS
"cooker": "DynamicParser",
"format": "json",
"model": "com.amazon.android.model.content.Content",
"modelType": "array",
"query": "$[?(@.categories[0] in [$$par0$$])]",
"matchList": [
"title@title",
"id@id",
"description@description",
"videoURL@url",
"imgURL@cardImageUrl",
"imgURL@backgroundImageUrl"
]
2 . C R E AT E A R E C I P E TO M A P Y O U R C O N T E N T
R e c i p e . j s o n :
"cooker": "DynamicParser",
"format": "json",
"model": "com.amazon.android.model.content.Content",
"modelType": "array",
"query": "$[?(@.categories[0] in [$$par0$$])]",
"matchList": [
"title@title",
"id@id",
"description@description",
"videoURL@url",
"imgURL@cardImageUrl",
"imgURL@backgroundImageUrl"
]
2 . C R E AT E A R E C I P E TO M A P Y O U R C O N T E N T
Y O U R F E E D TA G S
F I R E A P P B U I L D E R TA G S
R e c i p e . j s o n :
3 . C U S TO M I Z E T H E L O O K & F E E L
N a v i g a t o r. j s o n
C H A N G E T H E F O N T
4 0 + E M B E D D E D F O N T S + C U S TO M
"branding": {"globalTheme": "AppTheme","lightFont" : "Roboto Light","boldFont" : "Roboto Bold","regularFont": "Roboto Regular"
}
3 . C U S TO M I Z E T H E L O O K & F E E L
ContentBrowseActivity
3 . C U S TO M I Z E T H E L O O K & F E E L
FullContentBrowseActivity
S TA RT TO D AY !
D O W N L O A D
github.com/amzn/fire-app-builder
D O C U M E N TAT I O N
bit.ly/FireAppBuilderDoc
Demo: FABbit.ly/FABWorkshopDocs
PUBLISH YOUR
FIRE TV APP
developer.amazon.com/appstore
H O W TO S U B M I T Y O U R A P P F O R E VA L U AT I O N
bit. ly/2f9IsyW
REGISTER ON
DEVELOPER PORTAL
APPS GET
EVALUATED FOR
FEATURING!
FILL OUT THE UK
DEVELOPER
SPOTLIGHT FORMSUBMIT YOUR APP
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