Welcome

Welcome to the TV App Development Workshop with React Native

Hello

Hello everyone! I’m going to take you into the world of TV app development with React Native. We’ll dive deep into creating a TV app that can run on Android TV, Fire TV, tvOS, and even web based TVs. Let’s get started!

Why TV App Development?

Before we dive in, let’s talk about why TV app development is such an interesting field:

  • Growing Market: The smart TV market is expanding rapidly, with millions of households adopting connected TV devices.
  • Unique User Experience: TV apps offer a lean-back experience that’s distinct from mobile or web applications.
  • Cross-Platform Potential: With React Native, we can target multiple TV platforms with a single codebase.
  • Leveraging Existing Skills: If you’re familiar with JavaScript, TypeScript, React or React Native, you already have a head start in TV app development.

Our Foundation: react-native-multi-tv-app-sample

We’ll be using the react-native-multi-tv-app-sample project as our foundation. This project is developed using some of the TV-specific best practices and it’s capable to generate an app running across different TV OSs

What We’ll Cover

Let’s break down what we’ll be exploring :

  1. Challenges of TV app development

  2. What tool we are going to use

  3. Setting up the development environment

  4. Exploring the Multi TV app project structure

  5. TV-specific Concepts

  6. Implementing Focus Management

  7. Customizing the UI for TV

  8. Handling Multi-platform Development

What You’ll Gain

By the end of this workshop, you’ll have:

  • A solid foundation in TV app development with React Native.
  • Understanding of TV-specific design and development challenges and solutions.
  • The ability to start building your own cross-platform TV applications.

Let’s Get Started!

Let’s dive in and start building for the big screen!

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