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

• ExoPlayer: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/exoplayer.html

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

• Android TV Developer Documentation: TV Input Framework

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