List: SmartTV | Curated by Matthijs Langendijk

Feb 15, 2025
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SmartTVYour one-stop reading shop for anything SmartTV
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Learning Focus Management in Smart TV appsOne of the first things you’ll need to learn when starting out your Smart TV app development journey, is focus management. While regular…
Jan 23
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Jan 23
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Do you need a TV lab for Smart TV development?Thinking of diving head first into Smart TV development as your New Years’ resolution? One of the first things that you’ll quickly run into…
Jan 30
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Jan 30
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Monetising your free Smart TV applicationAs there are plenty of free Smart TV applications out there, it’s important to figure out the best way to monetise your own. So how do you…
Sep 23, 2024
Sep 23, 2024
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How to become a Smart TV developerTired of developing the same old websites again and again? Or maybe you’re just starting out after uni looking for your calling? With…
Aug 19, 2024
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Aug 19, 2024
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State of Smart and Connected TV 2024: A Comprehensive GuideThe start of the year has seen plenty of announcements, deals, and other moves in the world of Smart and Connected TV. New operating…
Feb 28, 2024
Feb 28, 2024
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Lightning 3: The Basics of BlitsBack in September, the first open beta of Lightning 3 was announced. As part of that announcement, two different options for developing…
Oct 31, 2023
Oct 31, 2023
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What I want SmartTV manufacturers to improveDeveloping for SmartTV is a drag. Imagine you’re in the year 2023, yet you have to deal with televisions running Internet Explorer 8 type…
Nov 27, 2023
Nov 27, 2023
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What’s new in the first public Beta of Lightning 3At the RDK Global Summit 2023 in Amsterdam last week, the first beta of Lightning version 3 was announced. This initial release makes it…
Sep 25, 2023
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Sep 25, 2023
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Designing SmartTV applications: things to account forWhile the whole world has figured out how to design and develop applications for the web, smartphones and even desktops… SmartTV is a…
May 8, 2023
May 8, 2023
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Deploying and running Lightning apps on SmartTVWhile Lightning is a framework made specifically for tv-applications running the Metrological Appstore (or RDK in general), it can…
Sep 12, 2022
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Sep 12, 2022
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I developed an F1TV app for my ‘old’ LG televisionOver several evenings in the past week or two I’ve been trying to get a Formula1 TV app running on my ancient LG television from 2018…
Jun 23, 2022
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Jun 23, 2022
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What I like about developing for SmartTVFor this blog I wanted to look at the complete opposite of the other blog  — what are the great parts about developing for SmartTV, what…
Jun 14, 2022
Jun 14, 2022
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App Maintenance for new SmartTV modelsEvery year the likes of Samsung, LG, Sony and others release a set of new televisions to the market. Televisions with a slightly different…
Mar 17, 2022
Mar 17, 2022
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Getting Started with Lightning, the TV-App Development FrameworkUnderstanding the core principles of developing with Lightning, how we can use it, and what Lightning provides for developers.
Feb 21, 2022
Feb 21, 2022
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Introduction to Lightning, the TV-app development frameworkPicking the right development framework when building TV-apps is really a crucial first step. In one of my latest blogs I looked at…
Feb 17, 2022
Feb 17, 2022
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HTTPS on the big screenIf there’s one thing people always under estimate on Smart TV, it’s https. On websites it can be rather easy. You can really just use any…
Nov 15, 2021
Nov 15, 2021
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Smart-TV Development: The BasicsSo you’re a web developer who has been asked by their company to look at developing an app for Smart TVs? Or are you maybe interested in…
Oct 26, 2021
Oct 26, 2021
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What I hate about developing for Smart TVAbout 6 years ago I took my first babysteps into the world of SmartTV development, when I joined 24i as an intern. Really only knowing…
Jun 7, 2021
Jun 7, 2021
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Keeping your streaming service alive on older SmartTVsAbout two weeks ago, Netflix announced it would be dropping support for their applications on older Samsung and Vizio SmartTVs. People…
Nov 17, 2019
Nov 17, 2019
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SmartTV: Supporting it allReach is everything in the world of OTT. Without users being able to find your application on their device of choice, be it a SmartTV…
Oct 27, 2019
Oct 27, 2019