Learning Apple tvOS App Development

Discover how to develop an app for Apple TV. Learn how to use Apple frameworks and technologies to start and complete your first app on the Apple tvOS platform.

Introduction

• Create immersive experiences for tvOS
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Introducing tvOS Development

• What makes tvOS special?
• The Siri remote and the focus model
• A light and dark Hello World

2. Your First tvOS App: Build the UI

• What you are going to create
• Set up the ViewController hierarchy
• Understand UISplitViewController
• Add video assets and imagery
• Add different UIKit components
• Set up a TableViewController
• Connect the UI with your code

3. Your First tvOS App: Add the Logic

• Demo API and some helpers
• A video background
• Set up location services
• Handle location updates
• Get weather data for the user's location
• Update the UI with weather data
• Forecast for more than one day
• Text entry on tvOS: Search for locations
• TableViews on tvOS
• UISplitViewController in action

4. Multipeer Connectivity

• Search for locations with your iPhone
• Integrate Multipeer Connectivity
• Advertise and browse for devices nearby
• Send data from an iPhone to Apple TV

5. Final Touches

• Understand the top shelf
• Enable the top shelf and layered images
• Set up shortcuts
• Communicate with URL schemes
• Add a layered app icon

Conclusion

• Next steps