Android TV Apps Development

Building for Media and Games
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4842-1783-2
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2146 g

This one-of-a-kind short book walks you through creating fantastic entertainment apps for one of the newest Android platforms. will demystify some of the newest APIs and present the tools necessary for building applications that run on Android TV.

Walking through example applications, you will learn the vocabulary necessary to solve real-world problems and how to present your content on the television through Android. In addition to practical code examples, you will learn about various design considerations that will make using your apps an enjoyable experience for users.

What you'll learn:

• How to design for Android TV
  
• How to create a media app for Android TV
  
• What are the game design/development considerations for Android TV
  
• How to distribute Android TV apps
  

Audience:Developers with some experience with Android development who are interested in building applications for the Android TV platform.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trebilcox-Ruiz, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Webprogrammierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Handheld Programmierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Android TV Fundamentals.- 2. Designing for TV.- 3. Creating a Media Application.- 4. Game Considerations.- 5. Distributing Android TV Applications.

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Trebilcox-Ruiz is a software engineer at Sphero (they make awesome robots that you can control from your phone) in Boulder, Colorado and a Computer Science graduate from California State University, Fresno. His main interests are in the Android platform, Android TV and wearable computing. He also actively participates in hackathons in the Denver/Boulder area; writes an Android technical blog and presents to Meetups in the area.