Apple tvOS App building

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Does anyone know if there any plans for PGB to target the new Apple tvOS for Apple TV?
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LianjaDev

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LianjaDev

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The reason I ask is this...

https://medium.com/bpxl-craft/apple-t...

Seems like Apple have not included UIWEbView framework in tvOS so I'm wondering what the alternative solutions may be for PGB.
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jcesarmobile

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Apple has included the UIWebView (or not removed as it based on iOS SDK), but they have marked it as prohibited.

I've been testing and there are a way of loadin it, but the website is unusable, the remote doesn't interact with the website in any way, and as it's prohibited to use the UIWebView, there is no point on trying to make it work, apps will be rejected.

So, there will not be cordova/phonegap apps on apple TVs

But maybe pgb team allows to upload TVML and TVJS apps in the future and compile them to create an apple TV app
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LianjaDev

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@jcesarmibile thanks for sharing that information. I'm wondering how any apps could be useful with no way of proper interaction with them. I will investigate TVML and TVJS and see if we can generate the apps as we are doing with Lianja for phonegap mobile apps.
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PGB and tvOS?
Wouldn't you rather see them:
- offering support for iOS9
- making sure that the PGB server isn't down so often
- improving their QA before releasing yet another unannounced change
- expanding the support team, to be able to reply to forum topics faster
- working through the large list of open issues

Once they have that under control, I think they may start thinking of supporting other platforms.
Perhaps.