Samsung SmartTV Application Development

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Book description

Take your apps from the small screen to the big screen and start developing for the Samsung SmartTV now!

Samsung's SmartTV platform gives developers the opportunity to bring the app experience to the world of home entertainment, creating a more interactive and engaging way to reach their audience. If you're ready to expand your app development skills beyond the mobile environment, look no further than Samsung SmartTV Application Development. This unique guide shows you how to incorporate SmartTV features like Smart Interaction, gesture and voice recognition, and personalized recommendations into your app designs and take advantage of movie, video game, web, and other smart content available on the latest SmartTV offerings.

• Shows how to build a new SmartTV application – from planning the app design to creating a compelling user interface, adding features, and taking the app to market
• Walks you through the development environment, key platform capabilities, the SmartTV toolset, and testing emulator
• Includes helpful source code examples to use as inspiration for your own app design and instruction on using video-on-demand, gaming, multi-screen, and Smart Interaction features in your app
• Written by a team of experts from Handstudio, a global smart media application and solution developer whose clients include Samsung, Humax, and LG, who share their real-world insights and experience developing for the Samsung SmartTV platform

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Table of contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Preface
4. Contents
5. Chapter 01: Introducing the Samsung SmartTV Platform
   1. Introducing SmartTV
   2. Samsung SmartTV SDK
   3. SDF
   4. Summary
   1. Structure of a Samsung SmartTV Application
   2. Project Types
   3. Web Application
   4. Summary
   1. SDK Download and Installation
   2. Configuration
   3. Summary
   1. Creating a New Project
   2. Implementing the Hello TV! Program
   3. Running Hello TV!
   4. Installing Hello TV! on a TV
   5. Summary
   1. Anchor and Focus
   2. Registering/Unregistering a Remote Control Key
   3. Handling Remote Control Events
   4. Moving the Focus
   5. Handling a Mouse Event
   6. Summary
   1. Scenes-Based Design
   2. Switching Between Scenes
   3. Data Transfer Between Scenes
   4. Summary
   1. Initializing the AVPlayer Library
   2. Play, Pause, Stop, and Skip
   3. Handling Remote Control Key Events
   4. Summary
   1. Main Scene
   2. VOD Player
   3. Summary
   1. API Design
   2. API Processing
   3. Optimizing API Requests
   4. Summary
   1. Using IME
   2. IME Member Functions
   3. 12 Keys and QWERTY Keyboards
   4. Summary
   1. Introducing the Convergence
   2. Server-Side (SmartTV) Convergence Application
   3. Client-Side (a Mobile Device) Convergence Application
   4. Introducing the AllShare Framework
   5. Summary
   1. Login
   2. Virtual Remote Controller Using the Convergence
   3. Summary
   1. Camera
   2. Smart Interaction
   3. File API
   4. HTML5/CSS3
   5. Summary
   1. Exception Handling for the Focus
   2. Exception Handling for the Return/Exit Key
   3. Exception Handling for the Player Exit Event
   4. Exception Handling for the IME
   5. Summary
   1. Registering to the SDF
   2. Registering an App on the Samsung Apps Seller Office
   3. Registering an App Package on the SDF
   4. Application Management
   5. Summary
   1. Hands Frame Basic Version
   2. Hands Frame Advanced Version
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   Product information

   • Title: Samsung SmartTV Application Development
   • Author(s): Ltd Handstudio Co.
   • Release date: September 2013
   • Publisher(s): Wiley
   • ISBN: 9781118828021

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