Two months ago we started building our first AppleTV app in the accedo.tv Budapest office in Objective-C. The app we built was for a client called CMore, a Swedish company providing video on demand for the scandinavian countries, already supported on multiple…

When you develop an application for Apple TV, you will mostly have to play with the focus engine, and have to change focus programmatically to focus on a specific view of your UI.

On tvOS you are probably going to use a lot of UICollectionView to display you assets and list them on the screen. Apple advise by the way to have horizontal scrolling views when possible.

Focus guide is great to improve your user experience on tvOS. It helps to make the navigation easier for your end users. During the development of the CMore tvOS app, we use it, and here is how it works.

UIImageView has a new property called adjustsImageWhenAncestorFocused. If this property is set to YES , your picture can be automatically adjusted when focused (Scaled, rotation is applied, and lighting too)