Android TV.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  November 2019

  I use controllers on Android TV, no problems - just include the controller plugin.
  
  For Ads I use Unity and AppLovin.
  
  The Banner and stuff can be set in the Gideros project properties.
  
  Here is my requires plugin:
  
  
  

  

  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  November 2019

  Once you have it all tested then tick the box in the google play panel and they will review it for you, then if all ok they will approve it.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  November 2019

  I forgot to mention, with the controller plugin if you see a controller with the getControllerName having 'remote' in part of it then it's going to be the TV consoles remote control. Basically a D-Pad.
  
  Also on the ShieldTV there seems to be a bug in their OS and it presents a controller called 'virtual-search', you should ignore this controller.

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• MoKaLux Member

  November 2019

  @SinisterSoft thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us.

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• oleg Member

  November 2019 edited November 2019

  @SinisterSoft My google also requires a banner for android tv, I have uploaded all the banners in the store, but do still need some banner - do you know something about that?

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• MoKaLux Member

  November 2019

  
  

  

  

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• oleg Member

  November 2019 edited November 2019

  MoKaLux said:

  
  

  Thank you for reminding me to install a banner without the name of the game, and google requires a banner with the name of the game ..

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  November 2019

  I use a 1920x1080 image for the banner, here is the one I used for ping pong dx...
  
  
  
  Gideros will then shrink it to the correct size if it needs to.

  

  

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• oleg Member

  November 2019 edited November 2019

  SinisterSoft said:

  I use a 1920x1080 image for the banner, here is the one I used for ping pong dx...
  
  
  
  Gideros will then shrink it to the correct size if it needs to.

  
  The banner should be an xhdpi resource with a size of 320 x 180 px. Text must be included in the image. If your app is available in more than one language, you must provide separate versions of the banner with text for each supported language.]]

  How to make a separate banner for each translation of the game?
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  November 2019

  Hmm, I've never done that - the title is always the same for my games no matter what the language.

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  November 2019

  Plus, the google docs are slightly wrong (they know about it), the banner is pointed to by the manifest, it's not in the xhdpi folder and there are not multiple versions of it per language. If you do put it in that folder rather than where Gideros puts it then the TV team don't approve the game. (I've had that issue in the past).
  
  As Gideros works right now is the correct way and it will pass TV certification.
  
  Also, don't forget though that on TVs you lose a border around the screen where you shouldn't put any vital information - just game graphics.

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• oleg Member

  November 2019

  SinisterSoft said:

  Hmm, I've never done that - the title is always the same for my games no matter what the language.

  There are names that are not clear in English in other countries. For example, the game 'Minesweeper' in Ukraine is called 'Saper'. -the translation of the name is very important ..

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  November 2019

  I'm not sure how to point to multiple images - the manifest appears to give the option of only specifying one file.

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• antix Member

  November 2019

  AFAIK there is only one banner allowed.

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• oleg Member

  November 2019

  And can not different banners for different languages?
  https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle/playcore#lang_resources

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  November 2019

  I'm not sure how you would do it as the manifest lets the system know where the banner is and what it's filename is. It's not like it points to a folder and you have multiple banners in there with the filename based on the language id.
  
  I would not really worry about it as the banner is only seen on the TV, why not put all the titles on the image all jumbled up?

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• oleg Member

  November 2019

  SinisterSoft said:

  
  I would not really worry about it as the banner is only seen on the TV, why not put all the titles on the image all jumbled up?

  Usually, I avoid writing text on icons, and draw an intuitive icon without text.
  Now I have to write the text that no one needs on the banner.
  So i will fulfill the google requirement formally and write very small text in the corner of the banner ..
  

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