native browser – Apple TV Hacks https://www.appletvhacks.net Get more from your shiny box of joy: Taking Apple TVs to the next level Sun, 08 Nov 2015 21:24:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Apple TV 4 hacked to run a web browser https://www.appletvhacks.net/2015/11/08/safari-browser-for-apple-tv-4/ https://www.appletvhacks.net/2015/11/08/safari-browser-for-apple-tv-4/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2015 21:08:22 +0000 https://www.appletvhacks.net/?p=9740 The new Apple TV doesn’t feature a web browser and the developers are not allowed to create third-party browsers for tvOS. At least not officially. Forking an exisiting GitHub project posted by Steven Troughton-Smith’s, a Dutch developer jvanakker has built a native tvOS browser...

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The new Apple TV doesn’t feature a web browser and the developers are not allowed to create third-party browsers for tvOS. At least not officially. Forking an exisiting GitHub project posted by Steven Troughton-Smith’s, a Dutch developer jvanakker has built a native tvOS browser for Apple TV 4.

tvOSBrowser allows you to navigate pages with the Siri Remote. You can switch between cursor & scroll mode by tapping on the center of the touch area. Click the touchpad to click. Menu will navigate back. The Play/Pause button will let you input URLs.

Here’s a video showing this simplistic browser in action:

tvOSBrowser uses a private API (UIWebView), so it wouldn’t be approved on the tvOS App Store. But it can be downloaded by anyone from here.

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Earlier this week the new Apple TV was hacked to enable app folders.

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