Read tvOS blog posts at TO THE NEW Blog https://www.tothenew.com/blog Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:00:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Building a Scalable OTT Player for Apple TV: Architecture and Best Practices https://www.tothenew.com/blog/building-a-scalable-ott-player-for-apple-tv-architecture-and-best-practices/ https://www.tothenew.com/blog/building-a-scalable-ott-player-for-apple-tv-architecture-and-best-practices/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:43:58 +0000 https://www.tothenew.com/blog/?p=80909 Introduction As streaming services continue to evolve, users expect a seamless and feature-rich viewing experience across all devices, including Apple TV. While AVPlayerViewController offers a robust playback solution out of the box, modern OTT platforms often require greater flexibility to support custom branding, advanced playback controls, personalised content recommendations, analytics, advertisements, and DRM. Building a […]

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]]> https://www.tothenew.com/blog/building-a-scalable-ott-player-for-apple-tv-architecture-and-best-practices/feed/ 0 Implementing Liquid Glass UI in Apple TV (tvOS) https://www.tothenew.com/blog/liquid-glass/ https://www.tothenew.com/blog/liquid-glass/#respond Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:40:40 +0000 https://www.tothenew.com/blog/?p=77987 Apple introduces a new design era for the user interface in WWDC25, called Liquid Glass. This modern UI design is evolving towards depth, transparency and layered visuals. Liquid Glass is a combined immersive effect of glass and fluid elements. Liquid Glass is also known as frost glass or blur glass. In this blog, I will […]

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]]> https://www.tothenew.com/blog/liquid-glass/feed/ 0 A Guide to Handling Focus in Apple TV Apps with SwiftUI https://www.tothenew.com/blog/how-to-control-focus-in-swiftui-for-apple-tv-apps/ https://www.tothenew.com/blog/how-to-control-focus-in-swiftui-for-apple-tv-apps/#respond Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:03:32 +0000 https://www.tothenew.com/blog/?p=74450 Introduction In Apple TV, the centre of user interaction is the focus engine. Apple TV does not use the touchscreen like iPhones and iPads, where one taps everything directly on the screen, but uses the remote control to navigate among the elements. This is to say that the usability of your app largely relies on […]

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]]> https://www.tothenew.com/blog/how-to-control-focus-in-swiftui-for-apple-tv-apps/feed/ 0 Apple TV Focus Engine: Step-by-Step Guide for Developers https://www.tothenew.com/blog/apple-tv-focus-engine-step-by-step-guide-for-developers/ https://www.tothenew.com/blog/apple-tv-focus-engine-step-by-step-guide-for-developers/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:32:05 +0000 https://www.tothenew.com/blog/?p=73982 As an Apple TV developer, I have a major challenge to work with Focus Engine. So basically, Focus engine is used to navigate or redirect your focus to one to another. The Focus Engine works seamlessly with Siri Remote actions such as up, down, left, and right. The main challenge, however, lies in navigating focus […]

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]]> https://www.tothenew.com/blog/apple-tv-focus-engine-step-by-step-guide-for-developers/feed/ 0 Unlocking the World of Apple TV Development: Swift for Beginners https://www.tothenew.com/blog/unlocking-the-world-of-apple-tv-development-swift-for-beginners/ https://www.tothenew.com/blog/unlocking-the-world-of-apple-tv-development-swift-for-beginners/#respond Sun, 30 Mar 2025 08:43:54 +0000 https://www.tothenew.com/blog/?p=71045 In 2007, Apple Inc. launched the Apple TV for a new age of content consumers, with an interactive user interface, easy-to-use navigation by Siri Remote, and an introduction to a theatre-like experience at home. What is tvOS? Apple Inc. has designed and developed a new operating system, called TVOS, especially for Apple TV. TVOS uses […]

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]]> https://www.tothenew.com/blog/unlocking-the-world-of-apple-tv-development-swift-for-beginners/feed/ 0 Basic Application Development for Apple TV (with TVML & TVJS) with API calling & dynamic TVML https://www.tothenew.com/blog/basic-application-development-for-apple-tv-with-tvml-tvjs-with-api-calling-dynamic-tvml/ https://www.tothenew.com/blog/basic-application-development-for-apple-tv-with-tvml-tvjs-with-api-calling-dynamic-tvml/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:21:35 +0000 http://www.tothenew.com/blog/?p=36873 In my first blog, I talked about how to create client-server based application in tvOS using TVML and TVJS. So, to get started, you can take reference from it. Today, I am talking about how to send/retrieve information from remote server, so our mobile app will show us always updated results. To retrieve any information […]

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]]> https://www.tothenew.com/blog/basic-application-development-for-apple-tv-with-tvml-tvjs-with-api-calling-dynamic-tvml/feed/ 2 Introduction of Client-Server based tvOS Application using TVML & TVJS https://www.tothenew.com/blog/introduction-of-client-server-based-tvos-application-using-tvml-tvjs/ https://www.tothenew.com/blog/introduction-of-client-server-based-tvos-application-using-tvml-tvjs/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:25:08 +0000 http://www.tothenew.com/blog/?p=35914 In September 2015 at WWDC event, Apple introduced the most powerful and advanced updates to the Apple TV set-up box. It provides simple, most effective and handy user interfaces to the users for navigating and viewing video content. It also supports other third-party applications and games named as tvOS applications. Apple’s 4th generation TV hardware […]

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