Sample Android TV App

The project is a test implementation that uses Jetpack Compose for an Android TV OS app. It includes API requests to fetch a dynamic list, integrates Hilt for Dependency Injection, and utilizes Room Database for local data storage.

The Project Contain the following technologies

Android TV OShttps://developer.android.com/tv is a version of Android designed for smart TVs, providing an optimized interface for streaming and apps.
The programming language is the Kotlin, it is a modern, JVM-based programming language that is concise, safe, and interoperable with Java.
Kotlin Coroutines is used for asynchronous tasks.
Kotlin KTX is a collection of Kotlin extensions that offer more concise and expressive code for working with Android APIs and libraries. The UI is build using Jetpack Compose.
Retrofit is responsible for making requests and retrieving data from the remote server. (Repository)
Hilt Dependencies Injection is an Android library that simplifies dependency injection by using annotations to automatically manage and provide dependencies across components, built on top of Dagger. (Documentation)
Room Database is responsible for saving the retrieved data from the remote server, querying data from the local database, and supporting offline functionality.
MVVM with repository is an architecture where the Repository manages data sources (e.g., network, database), the ViewModel processes the data for the UI, and the View displays the UI, ensuring a clear separation of concerns.
KSP ("Kotlin Symbol Processing") is a tool for efficient annotation processing in Kotlin, providing faster code generation and symbol manipulation compared to KAPT. Repository
R8 enabled, is a code shrinker and obfuscator for Android that optimizes and reduces the size of APKs by removing unused code and resources, while also obfuscating the remaining code to improve security.

Setup

Setup in Manifest

<manifest>

    <uses-feature android:name="android.software.leanback" android:required="false" />

    <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.touchscreen" android:required="false" />

    <application android:banner="@mipmap/ic_launcher">
        <!--other code here-->
        <activity>
            <!--other code here-->
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LEANBACK_LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <!--other code here-->
    </application>
</manifest>

Important

Check my article for the setup 👉 Android TV Application (Setup for Jetpack Compose and Flutter)- Medium 👈

Important

Similar project with (Dart Language) 👉 SampleFlutterTVApp 👈

#Versioning

Target SDK version: 35
Minimum SDK version: 28
Kotlin version: 2.1.0
Gradle version: 8.7.3

Feeds/Urls/End Point (parsing some data from response)

(Links References for Ends Points)

https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API (GitHub)
https://docs.spacexdata.com/?version=latest (Postman)

References/Tutorials Follow/For Manifest Setup

https://developer.android.com/training/tv/playback/compose
https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/touch-input/focus/react-to-focus
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76281554/android-jetpack-compose-tv-focus-restoring