This is the Tuesday follow-up to Friday's funding open source without the bait and switch, and it picks up right where last week's Apple Watch port left off.
What is Codename One? Codename One is an open-source framework for building native iOS, Android, desktop, and web apps from a single Java or Kotlin codebase. Learn more at codenameone.com.
The watch work gave us the pattern for a new form factor: a shared API to detect it, resource overrides to theme it, and a builder path to ship it. PR #5261 applies that same pattern to the television. You can now detect a TV at runtime, restyle for it from CSS, ship a single Android APK that also runs on Google TV, and generate a separate Apple TV target from the same project.
All of it is driven by the build. You set a flag or two and the builders generate and build the TV targets for you. The screenshots later in this post are real Codename One UI running on the Apple TV simulator, pulled straight from the tvOS screenshot test suite.
Why TV is its own form factor
