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Reputation: 2913

Programmatically Setting Top Shelf Image on tvOS?

I am curious to know if anyone has had any success programmatically setting a Top Shelf image in a tvOS app? I've read through a few tutorials (such as this one) that details setting the Top Shelf image in either a sectioned or inset style, but I'm curious if anyone knows a way to choose a static image (in the 1920x720 resolution), based on a set of criteria. I'm interested in choosing a different 1920x720 image based on time of day.

I've played around a bit with the TVTopShelfProvider class, but I'm not seeing a way to choose anything but the bundled image in your assets.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1108

Answers (2)

Fattie
Fattie

Reputation: 12363

There are two completely different approaches to the Top Shelf.

  1. use the 1920.720 (and 2x that) image, which is simply in the icons assets of the normal app

  2. create a TV Top Shelf extension, which is a whole app unto itself

If you are using "1" - "just an image in the icons file" - in fact it seems there is NO WAY to dynamically set that image. It's just a static image, exactly like (say) the app icon.

Maybe this has changed recently, but that seems to be the situation.

Upvotes: 0

Wain
Wain

Reputation: 119031

With TVTopShelfProvider you can supply content which with points to a local image on the device or an image somewhere on the internet. This is done with the imageURL of the TVContentItem returned in topShelfItems. Whenever you change the contents of topShelfItems you need to post TVTopShelfItemsDidChangeNotification so the device knows that an update is required.

Upvotes: 2

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