CHAPTER 16: The Future of Android: The 64-Bit Android 5.0 OS 639
Now you have to make sure that your Android app is shown as an Android TV app by the Google
Play store, which will look for this
regarding how and where to list your Android TV application. If you want to research information on
how to design for the iTV set platform and hardware, you can go to the developer.android.com/
preview/tv/ui/index.html page, which covers the UI Design layout and navigation guidelines and
offers suggestions for Android TV, as shown in Figure 16-57.
Figure 16-57. Be sure to peruse information on Android’s Developer web site regarding iTV UI design guidelines
Notice that under the User Interface section on the left navigation pane for the preview site, there’s a
Games on TV section. You’ll take a look next at how to list your Android TV application automatically
as a game on the Google Play store, as this is something that you may want to do. Add a line
of space after the android:theme parameter in the
“android.” As you can see in Figure 16-58, IntelliJ implements an automatic tag parameter pop-up
helper dialog, just like Eclipse does.