Learn the ins and outs of your user's welcome screen to create a more engaging and personalized experience — Understanding the internals of the Leanback APIs is sometimes quite tricky, but it's something we, as developers, must do to make sure we're able to create apps that look and behave correctly to our users. In this post, we'll dive deep into the HeadersSupportFragment, which is part of the BrowseSupportFragment…

One of the challenges I faced when I started developing Android TV apps was the lack of documentation around some more specific tasks—for example, updating the content of a list of ListRows without having the whole ListRow, or the entire screen blinking. …

If you are developing a media app, you will certainly need a way to control your content playback, and it's no different on Android TV. This will be a two-part series where we'll learn how to use the Leanback APIs to implement and customize the transport controls, i.e., media controls…

In the first part of this series, we learned about the building blocks of media playback and control using the Android Leanback library and how to add and handle the basic playback controls. We also enhanced the UX of our App by following Google’s Playback controls on TV recommendations. 📺 Android TV Leanback: Playback Controls — Part 1 If you are developing a media app, you will certainly need a way to control your content playback, and it's no…admqueiroga.medium.com

Enabling playback voice control using Google Assistant, Alexa, and any other integrated voice assistant — In this post, we'll learn about Android MediaSession API, why we should use it, and how to implement it on Android TV (or Fire TV) apps. After setting the ground, we'll follow a step-by-step guide on a basic MediaSession implementation. …

How nice would it be to display your app content before the user thinks about opening it? Guess what? This is possible with the Channels API! In this post, we will go through a step-by-step guide with some helpful insights on creating and publishing your app's Preview Channels to the…