Making Apple TV Apps

With part 14 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series, we’ve reached the end of our journey. However, I hope it is just the beginning of your tvOS journey. In today’s series wrap up, I offer some resources to help you learn even more about making Apple TV apps. [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 14: Additional Resources

I hope you’re not the superstitious sort, as we’ve arrived at part 13 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series. Its time to connect our JavaScript and native code together so they can work seamlessly to make your app the best it can be. [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 13: Bridging TVJS and Native Code

Onward, forward! We’ve arrived at part 12 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series. I hope you’ve enjoyed the series so far and learned something along the way. Today, I will be showing you how to add your own custom UI view components to TVML as new XML tags. [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 12: Extending TVML With Custom Tags

Debugging is a part of TVML app development, just like any software development. In part 11 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series, we’re learning how to debug TVML apps. [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 11: Debugging a TVML-Based tvOS App

We’ve entered the realm of double digits, so things must be getting serious! Welcome to part 10 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series. Its time to create and run our first TVJS/TVML based app. [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 10: Creating Our First TVML-Based tvOS App

Come on in for part 9 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series! Are you ready to forge new ground in app development? Today, we open our minds to creating apps with the new TVJS and TVML frameworks. [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 9: Approaches to Building a tvOS App

Today in part 8 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series, we learn how we can diagnose and fix focus problems when they occur. I’m also ramping up the posts in this series to two posts per day in anticipation of its live presentation Thursday, April 21st, at my local CocoaHeads meeting. I hope to see you there! [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 8: Debugging Focus Issues

Welcome back! In part 7 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series, its time to explore all things focus-related with the Apple TV. If you need to know how the focus engine works and how to control it, this is the article for you. [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 7: How the Focus Engine Works

Welcome to part 6 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series. Today, we’ll be discussing the Apple TV’s “top shelf” area and how to populate it with dynamic content. [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 6: Populating the Top Shelf With Dynamic Content

In part 5 of my “Making Apple TV Apps” series, we begin looking at things that are new to tvOS. The first item we’re focusing attention on is the slick looking 3D images we see when an app icon or other visual asset receives focus. See what I did there? [Read more…] about Making Apple TV Apps, Part 5: Parallax Images