Android TV support

[sjolsthoorn]

As a big Android TV user, I started to make my own apps for it. I already make apps for Android and iOS using Ionic and thought I would give it a shot with Android TV, now you can simply make a big screen app, add some button mapping and sideload the APK to your Android TV and you got a app running but Google wants you to use the Leanback Launcher and its functionality in order to actually launch and use the app.

I already scouted for community plugins but there just about none (none with proper descriptions anyway), Android TV is not dead and used by many, development and app support for the OS is just very poor and Capacitor support would help making the platform easier to develop for, my own apps already run smooth on the TV, it just needs some extra configuration to make it run but official support from the Ionic Team would get a long way

[imhoffd]

This isn't something the Ionic Team will create, but please feel free to create a plugin proposal to the Capacitor Community to add Android TV support.

[baukef]

Hi Sjors, sounds like a very interesting approach. Do you have further insights that you can share?

[josefnorlin]

I too am interested in this. @sjolsthoorn, is that something you could share?

[folsze]

is this answer true?

Ionic app builded for Android applications supports Android TV.

Also you can create separated Tizen project with web (html, css, js) architecture. Use iframe in that tizen project and you can use your app in Tizen platform. But for good navigation you need use CAPH lib.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/71603535/20009330