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Mastering Android Game Development

By : Raul Portales
Book Image

Mastering Android Game Development

By: Raul Portales

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Android Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
API Levels for Android Versions
Index

Chapter 10. To the Big Screen

We have a game that runs properly on phones and tablets. So what about Android TV?

I believe Android TV has the potential to become a big gaming platform in the near future. Although other systems have tried to bring Android games to the big screen—namely OUYA, GameStick, and Amazon FireTV—there is a major difference: Android TV is not designed to be a box you plug into your TV but rather the Operating System in your SmartTV.

That makes a lot of difference because people will have it by default. I was skeptical about OUYA until I tried it. It was a great experience, but if I hadn't been an Android game developer I probably would not have tried it. Android TV can break that barrier.

In addition to that, adding support to Android TV is fairly simple and it may allow you to get more reach, so, why not do it anyway?

TVs are different from phones, they are bigger and they do not have a touch screen. They are also usually watched from a larger distance. Because of that...