August 2015
Beginner
768 pages
18h 18m
English
Content preview from Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 3
Developing for Android TV
In This Chapter
Running Android apps for television sets
Running Android Studio’s TV app
Creating an Android TV app
Do you remember the first time you heard about “the cloud”? I’m not referring to condensed water vapor. I’m referring to that collection of hardware and software that feeds us our contacts, our calendars, and our bookmarks wherever we go. Some buzzwords like the word “cloud” enter our psyches without fuss or fanfare. Other buzzwords knock us on the head and say “Pay attention to me. I will become important.”
I had an interesting response when I first heard about the ten-foot experience. I was at a seminar on Amazon Fire TV, and I was wondering why anyone needed a ten-foot TV screen. I had seen 70-inch TV screens in stores and wanted to know how a ten-foot device would fit into the average consumer’s living room.
Of course, I was getting the story all wrong. In the phrase ten-foot experience, “ten feet” doesn’t refer to the screen size. It refers to the user’s distance from the device. The basic idea is, when a user isn’t right up against a screen (the way we are with computer monitors and cellphone screens), the user interface must ...
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