I’ve got Sony TV which runs Google TV (which is st...

# compose

[orangy]

I’ve got Sony TV which runs Google TV (which is still Android TV afaik), so is it possible to run Compose on it? :) or may be #compose-desktop fits better? Did anyone try it already?

[Adam Powell]

shouldn't be anything stopping it 🙂 I've got what I think is a 2015 Bravia in the other room that I haven't tried running compose stuff on yet

[Adam Powell]

the biggest hurdle is that some of the 5-way focus traversal stuff has been landing fairly recently

[Adam Powell]

I think a bunch of that should be there in beta08?

[orangy]

I have whole weekend ahead of me :) gonna try it :)

[orangy]

But I still have to deal with Android views and such, right? Can’t have just Window as in desktop compose?

[Adam Powell]

I am very interested to hear how it goes 😄 I think if I started playing with the living room TV too much I'd risk the ire of my wife and kids

[Adam Powell]

should be able to start with ComponentActivity.setContent {}

[Adam Powell]

so just about as analogous as it gets to starting from Window

[orangy]

Never did anything Android, sorry :)) will Google it tomorrow

[Adam Powell]

class MyTvActivity : ComponentActivity() {
  override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    setContent {
      ComposeStuff()
    }
  }
}

[Adam Powell]

that's about it

[Adam Powell]

the android studio new project wizard with compose for the Arctic Fox beta or newer should generate that plus some other theming stuff you'll likely discard for you

[orangy]

Thanks! Will report back here in thread on how it goes

[orangy]

I doubt there is ready-made wizard for compose and TV :)

[Colton Idle]

Ooooh 5 point directional stuff landed in beta08? Gotta try to find those commits. I didn't think that was coming in 1.0

[orangy]

Any ideas on what I could build for TV? Besides weather :)

[Adam Powell]

@Colton Idle don't quote me on that, I know it's been coming in but I'm not sure which side of that build cut it landed on

[Colton Idle]

#compose-desktop had a few games that you could pretty easily pretty I would think.

[Colton Idle]

@Adam Powell any way to find out? Maybe I'll search issue tracker.

[orangy]

Oh, right. Tetris using remote :))

[Adam Powell]

@orangy last time I wrote a hobby android tv app I used leanback to write a snes emulator frontend; a bunch of the emulators on play store are pretty good at accepting ACTION_VIEW intents pointing at roms on shared storage 🙂

[orangy]

Adam, it doesn’t sound like a weekend project :)

[Arkadii Ivanov]

Try porting CompoSnake https://github.com/arkivanov/CompoSnake
🤭

[orangy]

[orangy]

It plays just nice with a remote d-pad 🙂

[Arkadii Ivanov]

This is super cool! Originally I wrote CompoSnake for desktop, then it was ported to web (https://github.com/Foso/compose-snake-web) by @Foso, and now it is running on TV! Are you going to open source it?

[orangy]

There is nothing to open source 🙂 I made only a single bit of change – replaced Window main with ComponentActivity, as @Adam Powell wrote above. It just works out of the box 🙂

[Colton Idle]

I'm surprised it just works. I thought d-pad wouldn't work.

[orangy]

Note, that this particular game doesn’t have any focusable controls, so it is just handling KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT to control the snake. I will try more “traditional” app later today or tomorrow