July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
114 pages
2h 43m
English
book
Building Web Apps for Google TV
by Maile Ohye, Paul Carff, Andres Ferrate, Daniels Lee, Amanda Surya, Shawn Shen, Steven Hines
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Chapter 1. Introducing Google TV
Even before Google TV was launched, the same questions seemed to be on everyone’s mind: What exactly is Google TV? Is it a new TV channel? Is it a new LCD TV made by Google? Is it a subscription service? What can you do with it? The answer is actually simple: Google TV is a new platform that seamlessly combines the web with television. As you’ll find in this and subsequent chapters, Google TV is an open and flexible platform that gives you, the developer, various avenues for bringing rich applications to the TV via the web.
Google TV runs on the Android platform, the same platform that powers millions of mobile devices. And Google TV ships with Google Chrome, Google’s own open-source browser which supports both HTML5 and Adobe Flash[1]. This means that there are essentially two paths to build applications for Google TV: you can build web applications (apps) for Chrome or you can develop Android applications. This book is aimed at developers who are interested in creating web apps for Google TV, although many of the design and user experience considerations also are relevant for Android apps.
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The Google Chrome browser is a key differentiator between Google TV and other “smart TVs,” as Google TV is the only platform that includes a full web browser. We feel that Google Chrome gives developers a great advantage, as they can create rich and sophisticated applications using existing technologies and approaches already compatible with Google Chrome and ...
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