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TDanks2000 / ApolloTv-old

Just archive of apollotv
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Android/Google TV Support #20

Closed Makar8000 closed 11 months ago

Makar8000 commented 11 months ago

There are not many apps out there that work well with Android/Google TV. Most of the popular ones are unmaintained forks or stopped working due to a lack of updates.

Since this seems to be early in development, I figured it would be nice to try to keep in mind support for TVs.

TDanks2000 commented 11 months ago

I have looked into this before but react native doesnt seem to play nicely with tv's

in the future there will be a cast option to be able to cast to the app on other devices.

if anyone wanted to try to get this app to work on android/google tv then that would be amazing

Makar8000 commented 11 months ago

After trying this out on TV the primary problem is that there is no way of knowing which Pressable is currently focused. I have tried adding onFocus events to set a border once a Pressable is focused, but they don't seem to fire or work at all.

I did some searching and I think using the react-native fork react-native-tvos would help resolve this, but I'm not really sure how interested you would be in switching to that just for TV support.

TDanks2000 commented 11 months ago

ive used react-native-tvos i could try using it but idk if it would break the mobile version of the app

TDanks2000 commented 11 months ago

if you wanna give it a go https://github.com/react-native-tvos/react-native-template-typescript-tv/tree/main/template

Makar8000 commented 11 months ago

The repo advertises itself as a full fork of the original repo with only the changes required to give better TV support. I may give it a try when I have some time with this repo and see how it goes.

Makar8000 commented 11 months ago

Closing this since TV support is at a point where it works fairly well - others can open a new one for more specific issues