In this chapter, we learned about Android TV and how we can use this platform to build effective and interactive content by designing and customizing our own interfaces for the Android TV platform.

We got acquainted with and learned more about the HeadersFragment and RowsFragment classes, and how we can inherit from these classes provided to us by the Android Leanback support library so that we can design our own custom classes for the Android TV platform to provide a nice and clean user experience.

Next, we learned about the FrameLayout class and how we use this to extend the capabilities of creating our own layouts so that we can present content professionally within the TV user interface. Then, we looked at how we can incorporate searching capabilities within TV user interface using the SearchFragment class that provides us with the callback methods to query search criteria and return content.

We then moved on and learned how to create a custom resource layout file that makes use...