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Samsung’s $100,000 Challenge to Developers

9 points by rajeshvaya 15y ago

mattmanser 15y ago
Blog spam, actual source: http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/samsung-tv-app-challenge/ http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/samsung-tv-app-challenge/ Utter theft of article word for word.
apaprocki 15y ago
I took a look at the SDK when I bought my Samsung TV. It seems very bizarre because there are 3 different ways you can write an app: HTML4/CSS2 (no, really.), Flash (ugh.), Lua/SDL (supposedly more for games than apps..) I'm sure $100,000 will tempt someone, but browsing the SDK really reinforced in my head that hardware companies don't do a great job at software. I'm not sure quite how they wound up with this software stack, but it would have made a lot more sense to me if they embedded Gecko and had a single way to access the TV API and write HTML5/CSS3 apps.
- nl 15y ago
  That's not true - or maybe you have an older TV? I think they changed platforms about 12 months ago. The current platform looks like this: HTML 5/DOM 2/CSS 3/Javascript 1.8/Flash 10.1 [1] As I mentioned elsewhere, I don't think their HTML 5 video implementation works properly and you need to use Javascript instead, but basically they have done what you want (except I think it is Webkit, not Gecko) [1] http://www.samsungdforum.com/Board/FeaturesSpec?rnd=11091322543979047 http://www.samsungdforum.com/Board/FeaturesSpec?rnd=11091322...
  - apaprocki 15y ago
    It looks like the switch just happened then. Looking at the SDK 2.5 documents post on the forum, somewhere around 2011-7-29. I'm glad they sorted that out, then.. I'll have to take a peek to see if they cleaned up the experience.
nl 15y ago
So I have one of these TVs. Well actually I have a Blueray player that implements Samsung's SmartTV platform. It's quite a nice platform - mostly HTML5, with some bits (eg video) implemented in Javascript instead. If you want to get started with it, the instructions for installing the Plex app are pretty good: http://plexforsamsung.pbworks.com/w/page/40870394/How-To%20install%20Plex%20Widget http://plexforsamsung.pbworks.com/w/page/40870394/How-To%20i...

9 points by rajeshvaya 15y ago

Blog spam, actual source: http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/samsung-tv-app-challenge/ http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/samsung-tv-app-challenge/ Utter theft of article word for word.

apaprocki 15y ago

I took a look at the SDK when I bought my Samsung TV. It seems very bizarre because there are 3 different ways you can write an app: HTML4/CSS2 (no, really.), Flash (ugh.), Lua/SDL (supposedly more for games than apps..) I'm sure $100,000 will tempt someone, but browsing the SDK really reinforced in my head that hardware companies don't do a great job at software. I'm not sure quite how they wound up with this software stack, but it would have made a lot more sense to me if they embedded Gecko and had a single way to access the TV API and write HTML5/CSS3 apps.

nl 15y ago
That's not true - or maybe you have an older TV? I think they changed platforms about 12 months ago. The current platform looks like this: HTML 5/DOM 2/CSS 3/Javascript 1.8/Flash 10.1 [1] As I mentioned elsewhere, I don't think their HTML 5 video implementation works properly and you need to use Javascript instead, but basically they have done what you want (except I think it is Webkit, not Gecko) [1] http://www.samsungdforum.com/Board/FeaturesSpec?rnd=11091322543979047 http://www.samsungdforum.com/Board/FeaturesSpec?rnd=11091322...
- apaprocki 15y ago
  It looks like the switch just happened then. Looking at the SDK 2.5 documents post on the forum, somewhere around 2011-7-29. I'm glad they sorted that out, then.. I'll have to take a peek to see if they cleaned up the experience.

nl 15y ago

So I have one of these TVs. Well actually I have a Blueray player that implements Samsung's SmartTV platform. It's quite a nice platform - mostly HTML5, with some bits (eg video) implemented in Javascript instead. If you want to get started with it, the instructions for installing the Plex app are pretty good: http://plexforsamsung.pbworks.com/w/page/40870394/How-To%20install%20Plex%20Widget http://plexforsamsung.pbworks.com/w/page/40870394/How-To%20i...