Can you develop web apps for Apple TV? [duplicate]

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Web app in tvOS (6 answers)

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I am new to app development, and I know we can develop apps for iPhone and iPad.

However, I am not sure if I can develop a web app for Apple TV. Can you develop web apps for Apple TV? If so, where can I go to learn about this?

Answer 1

There is no web browser on the Apple TV, so you can't currently develop web applications for a non-jailbroken device. Same goes for native applications.

Jailbroken Apple TVs are another story, but it sounds like that isn't your target here.

Answer 2

UIWebView doesn't exist in TV OS. Here is list from Apple's tvOS Developer Library document

tvOS Developer Library — PrereleaseDeveloperSearch iOS 9.1 to tvOS 9 API Diffs iOS 9.1 to tvOS 9.0 API Diffs

JavaScript

TVMLJS (Added)

Objective-C

/usr/include Accounts (Removed) AddressBook (Removed) AddressBookUI (Removed) AssetsLibrary (Removed) AudioToolbox AVFoundation AVKit CloudKit Contacts (Removed) ContactsUI (Removed) CoreAudioKit (Removed) CoreBluetooth CoreData CoreLocation CoreMIDI (Removed) CoreMotion (Removed) CoreSpotlight CoreTelephony (Removed) EventKit (Removed) EventKitUI (Removed) ExternalAccessory (Removed) GameController GameKit GSS (Removed) HealthKit (Removed) HomeKit (Removed) iAd (Removed) LocalAuthentication (Removed) MapKit (Removed) MediaPlayer MessageUI (Removed) Metal MultipeerConnectivity (Removed) NetworkExtension (Removed) NewsstandKit (Removed) NotificationCenter (Removed) PassKit (Removed) Photos (Removed) PhotosUI (Removed) PushKit (Removed) QuickLook (Removed) ReplayKit (Removed) SafariServices (Removed) Social (Removed) StoreKit TVMLKit (Added) TVServices (Added) Twitter (Removed) UIKit VideoToolbox (Removed) WatchConnectivity (Removed) WatchKit (Removed) WebKit (Removed)

Swift

Accelerate Accounts (Removed) AddressBook (Removed) AddressBookUI (Removed) AssetsLibrary (Removed) AudioToolbox AudioUnit AVFoundation AVKit CloudKit Contacts (Removed) ContactsUI (Removed) CoreAudioKit (Removed) CoreBluetooth CoreData CoreFoundation CoreGraphics CoreLocation CoreMIDI (Removed) CoreMotion (Removed) CoreSpotlight CoreTelephony (Removed) Darwin EventKit (Removed) EventKitUI (Removed) ExternalAccessory (Removed) Foundation GameController GameKit GSS (Removed) HealthKit (Removed) HomeKit (Removed) iAd (Removed) LocalAuthentication (Removed) MachO MapKit (Removed) MediaPlayer MessageUI (Removed) Metal MultipeerConnectivity (Removed) NetworkExtension (Removed) NewsstandKit (Removed) NotificationCenter (Removed) ObjectiveC PassKit (Removed) Photos (Removed) PhotosUI (Removed) PushKit (Removed) QuickLook (Removed) ReplayKit (Removed) SafariServices (Removed) simd Social (Removed) StoreKit Swift TVMLKit (Added) TVServices (Added) Twitter (Removed) UIKit VideoToolbox (Removed) WatchConnectivity (Removed) WatchKit (Removed) WebKit (Removed)

If you want to have anything closer to web development, check TVML which is easier for a web developer to work for TV app using a kind of Apple's own markup language.