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Connected TV, Experience Design
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...
Media & Entertainment, Technology
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...
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...
Connected TV, Media & Entertainment
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Connected TV, Media & Entertainment
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...
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...