Sample Android TV Channel App (TV Input) using TIF

This app is designed to show how to build live TV channel apps for Android TV using the TV Input Framework (TIF). The sample is a service that once installed, is recognized and run by the default TV app (e.g. Live Channels app).

Introduction

The sample app consists of a single TV input: 4 channels consisting of MP4 videos, HLS stream and MPEG-DASH stream, organized into various genres. The video files are served from Google Cloud Storage.

References and Developer Guides

Pre-requisites

ExoPlayer with HLS support: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/exoplayer.html
Android SDK v7 appcompat library
Android SDK v17 leanback support library
Android SDK v7 recyclerview library

Getting Started

Get code: git clone the project from https://github.com/googlesamples/androidtv-sample-inputs.git
Compile the project and install the app to your Android TV device.
Start the pre-installed system app Live Channels to configure TV input sources.

Note that the Live Channels app does not show up in Apps on Home screen unless there is at least one TV input service or a physical input like HDMI1.

To set up the TV input:

Start Live Channels app
Click Search to search for and add channels
Alternatively within 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 click ENTER to select it
- Click ADD CHANNELS NOW to add 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.

Screenshots

Support

Android TV Google+ Community: https://g.co/androidtvdev
Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android-tv

License

License under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

How to make contributions?

Please read and follow the steps in the CONTRIBUTING.md

Notice

Images/videos used in this sample are courtesy of the Blender Foundation, shared under copyright or Creative Commons license.

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