In recent days, we heard a lot about IoT and its rule on app development world, but none device had yet turned out to be powerful enough to prove the initiation of IoT. Finally, a device entered in IoT world to take the app development at another stage. After smartphones, it’s the turn of Television world to get the apps developed from app developers. Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV and I don’t know how many will exist in future with their own app stores.
Entrance of Television apps spells good news as well as a new challenge for developers. It also indicates an upcoming competition between Android and Apple or may be other brands – again.
Now let’s have a look on TV features of each brand to estimate the further work of developers.
New Apple TV
New Apple TV is an easy way to get your on-demand players on your big screen. Apple TV is a bigger version of your small screen apps. You can play with your apps or games or you can use it to watch your favourite episodes, movies, or anything that you like. If you are mad for your favourite heroes, Apple TV is something that can fulfil your madness as you can command it like “Show me movies of Winona Ryder”.
Apple TV has great features for iOS game lovers. For e.g. if you have discontinued your iphone multiplayer game, you can continue the same with your Apple TV to play it more comfortably – vice versa.
This will surely increase the work of iOS app developers, they will require to make apps compatible for both Apple TV, iPhone or iPad. Also they require making apps that bring Film industry closure to its fans.
Android TV
Many Apple TV features are similar to last year release of Android TV like on-demand functionality, power of Google Search and Google Now, action requests, etc. This year we didn’t heard any major changes to Android TV. But some changes are made to its introduction – Asus Nexus Player. This player supports Google cast allowing you to ping your smartphone-saved-content to your TV screen via Chromecast.
Developers should wait more to know exactly what they have to build for Android TV.
Amazon Fire TV Stick
Amazon Fire TV Stick is the cheapest one among the three. It’s a HDMI dongle giving you a thrill of Amazon Instant Video, Prime Instant Video, Prime Music, Cloud Drive, and a host of Android Game – so many things at just £35.
This stick comes with a cute remote with built-in microphones to make you control it via your voice. The remote comes with an optional gamepad controller to give you a mind-blowing gaming experience on big screens.
Some more benefits of this small stick includes on-demand services, search by cast, title, and director, information search from IMDb and much more. Currently it is limited to Amazon’s own services, but expectations are high in future.
With this small stick, developers may face bigger challenges as it is cheap, but it offer great services.
Conclusion
Concerning to this year only, Apple is at the high edge, but Android has also made some promises so we can wait before start making assumptions on Apple TV vs Android TV. For now, work is available for iOS app developers as Apple has already released SDKs to get set ready.
Entrance of Television apps spells good news as well as a new challenge for developers. It also indicates an upcoming competition between Android and Apple or may be other brands – again.
Now let’s have a look on TV features of each brand to estimate the further work of developers.
New Apple TV
New Apple TV is an easy way to get your on-demand players on your big screen. Apple TV is a bigger version of your small screen apps. You can play with your apps or games or you can use it to watch your favourite episodes, movies, or anything that you like. If you are mad for your favourite heroes, Apple TV is something that can fulfil your madness as you can command it like “Show me movies of Winona Ryder”.
Apple TV has great features for iOS game lovers. For e.g. if you have discontinued your iphone multiplayer game, you can continue the same with your Apple TV to play it more comfortably – vice versa.
This will surely increase the work of iOS app developers, they will require to make apps compatible for both Apple TV, iPhone or iPad. Also they require making apps that bring Film industry closure to its fans.
Android TV
Many Apple TV features are similar to last year release of Android TV like on-demand functionality, power of Google Search and Google Now, action requests, etc. This year we didn’t heard any major changes to Android TV. But some changes are made to its introduction – Asus Nexus Player. This player supports Google cast allowing you to ping your smartphone-saved-content to your TV screen via Chromecast.
Developers should wait more to know exactly what they have to build for Android TV.
Amazon Fire TV Stick
Amazon Fire TV Stick is the cheapest one among the three. It’s a HDMI dongle giving you a thrill of Amazon Instant Video, Prime Instant Video, Prime Music, Cloud Drive, and a host of Android Game – so many things at just £35.
This stick comes with a cute remote with built-in microphones to make you control it via your voice. The remote comes with an optional gamepad controller to give you a mind-blowing gaming experience on big screens.
Some more benefits of this small stick includes on-demand services, search by cast, title, and director, information search from IMDb and much more. Currently it is limited to Amazon’s own services, but expectations are high in future.
With this small stick, developers may face bigger challenges as it is cheap, but it offer great services.
Conclusion
Concerning to this year only, Apple is at the high edge, but Android has also made some promises so we can wait before start making assumptions on Apple TV vs Android TV. For now, work is available for iOS app developers as Apple has already released SDKs to get set ready.