Connected TV, Experience Design

Top 6 Key Considerations When Developing Smart TV Application

We are living in a smart economy. Every passing day we witness a surge in smart and connected products may it be Smart Home, Smart Phones, Smart Watches or Smart TVs. The rise in digital technologies presents an opportunity to develop cutting-edge products that are both engaging and intuitive. Companies wanting to ride the smart bandwagon...

by Nidhi Choudhary
Tag: Smart TV
22-Aug-2017

Smart TV, Technology

How to Install Tizen Dev build in Samsung Smart TV?

Installing Dev build across different platforms can be as direct as by pressing install button and at the same time it can become complex and go tricky for if the concerned person is operating from a different geographical location. In this blog, I will be covering Samsung's Tizen OS for a Smart TV application which requires few...

by Deepak Samal
Tag: Smart TV
24-Feb-2017

AngularJS, Connected TV

How to Convert a Tizen Application to Orsay?

Introduction Most of the Smart TVs applications are web based and are primarily developed using HTML and CSS. In case the native component of Smart TV is not used, it is easy to develop an application that can run on different Smart TVs such as Orsay, Tizen, LG, Opera, Smart Alliance, Amazon Fire etc. You can develop a Smart TV...

by Varun Mishra
Tag: Smart TV
04-Jan-2017

Connected TV, Mobility

Login With Facebook for Smart TV – User Experience

When developing a web, mobile app or a Smart TV app - login with Facebook is used for user authentication and conveniently capturing the user's social information from Facebook itself. This blog describes the steps to have a clear and consistent user experience for device login on a Smart TV.  Flow for Login With Facebook on Smart TV ...

by Ankit Jain
Tag: Smart TV
07-Dec-2016

Android, Connected TV

Playing different Videos with Exo-Player in Android TV

There are usually 3 types of videos while streaming in any Video Player. While working on Android TV we categorize these in Dash Videos HLS Videos (.m3u8 & .ts) Others (.mp4,.mpeg etc) We need different types of ExtractorRendererBuilder for playing different videos with Exo-Player. In this article I will be...

by Ankit Jain
Tag: Smart TV
21-Jul-2016

Connected TV, Manual Testing

Things to be taken care while testing ROKU TV.

What is ROKU? Smart TV development has witnessed an extraordinary growth in the last few years. TV testing is an interesting market. ROKU is a streaming platform which helps enhance the power of an ordinary TV thereby transforming it into Smart TV, opening the doors to the outer world. It allows seamless Media transfer. ROKU setup...

by Richa Kala
Tag: Smart TV
14-Jul-2016

Android, Connected TV

An introduction to SMAF

With the recent advancements in Smart TV ecosystems, almost one million Smart TVs are estimated by 2017.  Most of these Smart TVS belong to HTML / CSS / Javascript platforms. However, few Android TVs are based on java  platforms whereas Roku TVs apps are developed on Brightscript platform. Though all Smart TV‘s provide their own...

by Himanshu Singh
Tag: Smart TV
26-Jun-2016

Connected TV, Smart TV

Amazon TV Introduction and Configuration for Development

Introduction Amazon Fire TV, developed and released by AMAZON in April 12, 2014. it's a powerful streaming media device which helps to enable app and game developers to reach more customers in the living room. Availability The new Amazon Fire TV is mainly available to customers in US, UK, Germany, and Japan. Specifications Amazon...

by Varun Mishra
Tag: Smart TV
24-Jun-2016

Android, Connected TV

Comparison between smart tv’s : Roku 4 vs Apple Tv (2015) vs Amazon Fire Tv (2015) vs Nvidia Shield Android Tv vs ChromeCast

Smart TVs and chrome cast have amused users with some very compelling features and UX. Every product has different capabilities and qualities and choosing one over the other can vary from person to person according to their needs and past experience with technologies. Three main categories in smart TVs that attract users are: Apps...

by Himanshu Singh
Tag: Smart TV
22-Jun-2016