Learning Apple tvOS App Development

Introduction

• Create immersive experiences for tvOS
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Introducing tvOS Development

• What makes tvOS special?
• The Siri remote and the focus model
• A light and dark Hello World

2. Your First tvOS App: Build the UI

• What you are going to create
• Set up the ViewController hierarchy
• Understand UISplitViewController
• Add video assets and imagery
• Add different UIKit components
• Set up a TableViewController
• Connect the UI with your code

3. Your First tvOS App: Add the Logic

• Demo API and some helpers
• A video background
• Set up location services
• Handle location updates
• Get weather data for the user's location
• Update the UI with weather data
• Forecast for more than one day
• Text entry on tvOS: Search for locations
• TableViews on tvOS
• UISplitViewController in action

4. Multipeer Connectivity

• Search for locations with your iPhone
• Integrate Multipeer Connectivity
• Advertise and browse for devices nearby
• Send data from an iPhone to Apple TV

5. Final Touches

• Understand the top shelf
• Enable the top shelf and layered images
• Set up shortcuts
• Communicate with URL schemes
• Add a layered app icon

Conclusion

• Next steps