Sample for live TV Input Framework (TIF) on Android TV
This app is designed to show how to build live TV apps for Android TV. The sample is a service that once installed, it's recognized and run by the default TV app.
It consists of:
- Simple TV input: 2 channels from local video files
- Rich TV input: 4 channels served from Google Cloud Storage consisting of MP4 videos, HLS stream and MPEG-DASH stream
Users can set up these TV inputs using the Live Channels app.
Dependencies
Setup Instructions
- Compile the project and install the app to your Android TV device.
- Start the pre-installed system app Live Channels (which does not show up in Apps on Home screen until there is at least one TV input service or a physical input like HDMI1).
- To set up the Rich TV input:
- Either click Search upon starting Live Channels app to search for channels
- Or when running Live Channels app,
- Click ENTER to bring out Recent Channels
- Click DOWN to enter TV options
- Click RIGHT to Channel sources and select it
- Click DOWN to select Rich Input and hit ENTER
- Click ADD CHANNELS NOW to add 3 channels of MP4 videos, HLS stream and MPEG-DASH stream
- To watch sample channels, simply toggle UP and DOWN to switch channels
- Visit Channel Sources -> Rich Input -> Settings to see mock options for input settings.
References and How to report bugs
How to make contributions?
Please read and follow the steps in the CONTRIBUTING.md
License
See LICENSE
Google+
Android TV Community Page on Google+ https://g.co/androidtvdev
Change List
Version 1.0
Notice
Images/videos used in this sample are courtesy of the Blender Foundation, shared under copyright or Creative Commons license.
- Elephant's Dream: (c) copyright 2006, Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute / www.elephantsdream.org
- Sintel: (c) copyright Blender Foundation | www.sintel.org
- Tears of Steel: (CC) Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org
- Big Buck Bunny: (c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org
