Smart TV

Porting Samsung/LG HTML & React App to Vizio: Key Modifications

Introduction Adapting a React-based application originally built for Samsung's Tizen OS or LG's webOS to run on Vizio's SmartCast platform requires modifications to align with its Chromium-based HTML5 environment. Developers must address differences in runtime behavior, packaging formats, platform-specific APIs, and hardware...

by Sunny Chauhan
Tag: TV
30-Mar-2025

Android, Data & Analytics

ANR for TV

Description When the UI thread of an Android app is blocked for too long, an "Application Not Responding" (ANR) error is triggered. If the app is in the foreground, the system displays a dialog to the user, as shown in the figure below. ANRs are a problem because the app's main thread, which is responsible for updating the UI, can't...

by Janmejay Singh
Tag: TV
08-Oct-2023

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: TV
14-Jul-2016