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12May/120

Using Volume OSD to Control Audio in Samsung Smart TV Apps

Certifying applications is the most annoying stage in Samsung Smart TV Application Development, the Quality Assurance of Samsung rather strict with the application quality for their products. Some of cases are volume policy problem: volume up, volume down, mute, unmute, synchronized mute state with TV signal and more. And after several development of apps, i think let the TV itself control it and visualize the value using volume OSD is the best way to avoid the problems.

Now, let's take a look how to let the TV control the audio and using TV's Volume OSD to visualize the values

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25Apr/120

Hiding Mouse Cursor in Samsung Smart TV 2012

Back to blogging again after several months get busy with work stuff...

Since working in Samsung Smart TV Application part, i have no time to explore any other interesting topics beside of Samsung Smart TV itself. But i think it's still quite interesting to explore since they got the latest technology and features in their TVs. The 2012 Samsung Smart TV Series now give a gesture recognition feature which enabling our hand to be a mouse like in the PCs so this post will be how to hide the mouse cursor image, sometimes we need to hide this thing to give more stunning effects to the UI.

What we must know before and that's the basic of the hiding cursor:

Samsung Smart TV 2012 Series Widget/Application Engine is using Webkit
The cursor image can be customized using CSS
Don't forget to give ", default" in the cursor CSS
The image must be sized in 32 x 32 pixels
It cannot be completely transparent
Suggested to use PNG format

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5Feb/120

Samsung Smart TV Apps – Hello World

First post of Samsung Smart TV SDK 3.0.0 and definitely it's a Hello World application :D

If you're doesn't have a Samsung Smart TV SDK just go to www.samsungdforum.com and register there, it's totally free and you can download the SDK in "DEV TOOLS" menu. Installing the SDK is little bit something in Windows 64-bit, some people in forum said that they are facing problems when installing it but my installation in Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit is done very well.