HbbTV on Android TV with Chromium and ExoPlayer

Описание

Android TV allows TV manufacturers and operators to build state of the art devices with a huge selection of available applications. The Android TV environment provides the user a very good coverage of video-on-demand content, independent from the linear broadcast.

Additionally, broadcasters provide the user more and more broadcast-related content via the open HbbTV standard. To benefit also from this, the Android TV ecosystem can be enhanced with HbbTV functionality. To have a seamless integration of HbbTV services into the TV application, we extended our Inaris HbbTV Solution to be embedded into the Android TV application, independent of the used input service. This allows operators to integrate HbbTV functionality into their TV application without any middleware adaptation.

The implementation is based on our platform-independent Inaris HbbTV Solution, the open Chromium browser, and powerful ExoPlayer for broadband playback. The interaction with the TV Input Service is done using the TV Input Framework (TIF) API.

We showed our concept at the Android TV Summit at IBC 2017.

Learn more about our developments on the topic of HbbTV: https://www.tara-systems.de/development-activities-on-hbbtv.html