I am building a remote control in android for samsung smart tvs. I don't have a smasung smart tv to check my android remote, so I want to test it with some kind of emulator on my computer.
is there such a thing? some kind of smasung smart tv emulator that runs on windows?
there is a emulator for different versions of Tizen Smart TV. You can check it in https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/getting-started/using-sdk/tv-emulator.html
You should also check the limitation of the emulator vs a real TV set https://developer.samsung.com/smarttv/develop/getting-started/using-sdk/tv-emulator/emulator-limitations.html
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are there any ways for installing the android automotive os onto a regular android tablet for debugging purposes? As far as I could see, I can only use the emulator inside Android Studio for debugging.
But I want to debug on a physical device (as good as possible).
Thx.
No. That is not possible and likely will be that way for now. Android Automotive OS is designed to run in a vehicle, there is no incentive or need for tablet makers to create a version of Andriod Automotive OS for their tablet. If you want a physical device, there are automotive reference boards by various CPU manufacturers that support Android Automotive OS but likely it will cost a lot more than a tablet and would require a lot more work to maintain and be less stable compared to a commercial device.
There might be an option of using Pixel 3XL for app development although I have not tried so do not now how well it works. You can find more information in Google website: https://source.android.com/devices/automotive/start/pixel3
I've been messing around with React Native today. I've been running my react components on a virtual Android tablet using the Android Emulator. I'm now trying to run my react native code on an Android TV emulator, but I can't get it to work. I've set up the TV & Tablet emulators in near identical ways using the Android Virtual Device Manager within Android Studio. The main difference (beyond the obvious) as far as I can tell is that the CPU for the Tablet is x86_64, whereas the CPU for the TV is x86. I do not have the option to match these parameters for these two devices.
When I run react-native run-android, my react project builds successfully, but then the following screen shows up in my TV emulator.
Does anybody know what this is? Is there a proper way to connect a React Native app to an android TV emulator? My assumption was that it should be identical to the process for an android tablet emulator, but this does not seem to be the case - and I can't seem to find android TV specific information anywhere online.
Right now RN doesn't support android TV, they just recently supported apple TV but before that it was supported on ipad. So there must be some additional configurations needed between a tablet and tv. Here is more info on the subject: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/10544
It seems to be that this issue is fixed by the steps recommended by this answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39562409/798491 (except instead of shaking your screen, hit command-m to bring up the react native dev options).
I want to change language setting in the Android TV emulator in order to for me to do testing. But seems that, there is only English language available in the emulator. Is it Google still not implement yet other locale in the Android TV emulator? Because i check in other emulators, i mean phone or any else, there are variety of languages can be choose.
We have developed a new OTT Streaming STB build on an Android platform. How do I get it to operate the Google TV system so that the Apps built for GTV will load and run correctly?
Please note: I am NOT looking for advice on how to get an app onto the GTV platform - what I need is to get the Google TV platform on my STB.
Thanx
Nick
Google TV is not open source. It is built in a different way to core Android, you can't just add it to your build. Nearly anything built for Google TV will work on other Android devices such as yours. The Google Play device filtering is your real problem.
I was wondering if it is possible to obtain a Debug version of the Flash Player Chrome plugin for Google TV? I would like to remotely debug Flash applications running on a Google TV device, but as I understand it this requires a debug version of the player, and also a mechanism for entering the host name for the remote host where the debugger (e.g. Flash Builder) is running.
I did find an article regarding Chrome on the Adobe web site, but there's no mention of Google TV.
Thanks
It's not available. Google TV is based on Android - Flash support for android has been deprecated. As of this writing Google TV is based on Android 3.2 and continues to support Flash - Flash support is not expected for future versions.
Note that it's not possible for users to update Flash in the current Chrome on Google TV so there is no way to go to a debug version of Flash. Developers have to implement debugging code in your Action script. Given the fact that Flash support will eventually be phased out, it makes more sense to look into other solutions more compatible with future versions of Android/Chrome on Google TV.