tvOS 9 - New OS - TVMLKit tvOS! - Example

tvOS 9~ Experiments - TVApplicationController Javascript Environment - appleTv.

Example

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Requirements

• = XCode 8.0.

• = Swift 3.

• = tvOS 9.0

Tested on tvOS 9.0 Simulator, Apple Tv Developer Kit.

Important

this is the Xcode 8 / Swift updated project.

App Transport Security Settings

To support HTTP hosted : add the Boolean type Value to YES for NSAllowsArbitraryLoads in app's info.plist file.

Client-Server App

• Create and configure the client-server app with javascript file : main.js

• Create and configure .tvml files

• TVML Templates here : Apple TV Markup Language Reference Templates.

Code Example

AppDelegate Class

import TVMLKit

...

// MARK: - Properties
var window: UIWindow?
var appController : TVApplicationController?
static let TVBaseURL = "http://localhost:9001/"
static let TVBootURL = "\(AppDelegate.TVBaseURL)js/main.js"

// MARK: - UIApplication Overrides
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
    self.window = UIWindow(frame:UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)

    /// Create the TVApplicationControllerContext
    let appControllerContext = TVApplicationControllerContext()

    /// Javascript Context for TVMLKit Application
    if let javaScriptURL = NSURL(string: AppDelegate.TVBootURL) {
        appControllerContext.javaScriptApplicationURL = javaScriptURL
    }

    appControllerContext.launchOptions["BASEURL"] = AppDelegate.TVBaseURL

    if let launchOptions = launchOptions as? [String: AnyObject] {
        for (kind, value) in launchOptions {
            appControllerContext.launchOptions[kind] = value
        }
    }

    /// Javascript Environment
    appController = TVApplicationController(context: appControllerContext, window: self.window, delegate: self)

    return true
}

...

Usage

To run the example project, download or clone the repo. Run client-server app with Terminal command :

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9001

Build and Run tvOS Simulator!