Google TV App Development

The book I read to research this post was Sams Teach Yourself Google TV App Development In 24 Hours which is an excellent book which I read on the website at http://safaribooksonline.com which is a subscrption website that lets you read computing & technology books online. It also has video tutorials. Anyway the book is primarily about writing apps to both work directly on a Smart TV & also as a Web app on a Smart TV. I mainly read this book because I wanted to learn a bit about Open Android which is their operating system and apparently is less complex than a computing operating system. One reason is that you use a remote control rather than a mouse and also users tend to sit much further away. Hence you will primarily use a Smart TV for music and video. You can always upload video onto a Smart TV enabled website and if you are writing an app I strongly recommend the Closure Library For Google TV. It has things like ready made buttons in Javascript for this platform and will save you a ton of work. Web apps for Smart TV are written in Javascript, HTML & CSS & TV apps are written in Java. The Open Android operating system is open source and is based on Honeycomb or Android 3.2 of which it's almost the same and also you can buy a buddy box from a firm like Sony or Logitech that will upgrade a normal television and only costs around $99 although won't upgrade your picture obviously. It includes apps by Netflix & obviously Google Play as well as YouTube. I noticed on the Safari Books Online website their was a video tutorial on Open Android which I may look at a later date.