New Apple TV Hacked to Run Native tvOS Web BrowserDutch developer
jvanakker has hacked the new Apple TV to run a native tvOS web browser using a private API based on Apple's UIWebView class, sharing the code on
GitHub as a fork of developer Steven Troughton-Smith's
tvOSBrowser project. The demo video below shows Apple's website running on the fourth-generation box.
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The simplistic tvOS web browser allows you to scroll through pages with the Siri Remote, and pressing the center of the touch surface brings up a cursor for clicking. Pressing the Menu button returns you to the previous page, while the Play/Pause button allows you to input URLs, according to GitHub.
Apple does not allow Apple TV apps to have UIWebViews, so this web browser would not be approved on the tvOS App Store, but the project is a good proof of concept. Apple TV users interested in testing the web browser can follow
iDownloadBlog's guide to
sideload the app using Xcode and
modify a tvOS file to build it successfully.
Earlier this week, it was discovered that tvOS also includes
support for iOS-like folders.
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