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Building a 10-Foot Experience: React Native for tvOS

Presentation byArvin Singla

Arvin built his first AppleTV app as a side project using react-native-tvos. He will present everything you need to know, including:

  1. Why react-native-tvos exists
  2. Some pitfalls he encountered building the app
  3. How things have dramatically changed with the react-native-tvos project in the last few months to make things easier for developers.

Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H9fU974PNc29G_slpWDzmgrGn15_TxV_/view?usp=sharing

react-native-tvos repository: https://github.com/react-native-tvos/react-native-tvos

Expo guide to building for tvOS: https://docs.expo.dev/guides/building-for-tv/#create-eas-build-profiles-for-both-tv-and-phone

Article on focus management with TVFocusGuideView: https://medium.com/xite-engineering/revolutionizing-focus-management-in-tv-applications-with-react-native-10ba69bd90

IgniteTV starter repo: https://github.com/react-native-tvos/IgniteTV

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