How can the answer be improved? Apr 1, 2019 - Stream TV, movies and music on your Apple TV by installing apps. Menu, and then select Not on This Apple TV for a list of apps available for.
When revealing the revamped, Apple CEO Tim Cook bullishly claimed the “future of television is apps”. Which is fine, but that was the present of television at the time, if you owned a smart TV or rival telly box. Yet Apple has always been different. Its smartphones and tablets have far more properly good apps than rival systems. Our hope was Apple’s future for the telly would at least involve some we actually wanted to use.
As it turns out, there’s a lot of junk to fish through on the Apple TV App Store, and not that many apps you’d want to use for long. But there are exceptions – and those apps we’re still using (and liking) are listed here. Except for games – we’ve got a companion feature for that:. (Note: all apps are universal, meaning they’ll also install on your iOS devices, too, unless otherwise stated.) Not got one yet? This app being region-restricted to the US, Canada and UK is one of only two obvious flaws. ITunes Movie Trailers otherwise provides an efficient and usable means to feast your eyes on upcoming films. Click a piece of cover art and you get an overview of the flick in question, along with access to current trailers.
Interesting movies can be squirrelled away into a favourites list. The other flaw: it’s very US-focused regarding ratings. Other than that, it’s a must-download, unless you hate movies (in which case, buying an Apple TV was a strange decision on your part).
The idea of using maps on your telly probably seems a bit odd. After all, you’re unlikely to have your flatscreen and Apple TV while zooming up the M1, a massive extension lead trailing from your car. But this is a decent app for just exploring, not least when using Apple’s flyover feature, which gives you a 3D view of famous landmarks — even if they sometimes look like a 15-year-old PC game has melted a bit. There’s also the means to get directions on your telly and squirt them over to the TV Maps iPhone app, which is handy. Chances are your Apple TV’s plugged into an actual telly that’s capable of playing live broadcasts.
But if not, TVPlayer gives you free access to all the usual suspects, along with a simple, usable TV guide. Splash out some extra cash and you can unlock premium channels that usually lurk on cable. And if nothing else, we’re happy to include this app for Brits whose lips are wobbling at the absence of certain native Apple TV apps from terrestrial broadcasters.
(We’re looking at you, Channel 4 and UKTV.).
There's a, which shows pretty much the whole sideloading process. I just used the same process for Auntie Player, and it worked well. Possible hiccups:.
You'll need a dev account (free, sign-up in xcode). You'll need to change the bundle identifier, as you're effectively creating a 'new' app under your dev account. In Xcode, you click on the project in the list on the left, then select the 'Target' in the dropdown in the main window. Under 'Identity' is 'Bundle Identifier'. It will be something like 'com.jamsoftonline.provenancetv' for the ProvenanceTV target. For each of the targets (Provenance has two, Auntie Player only one), change it to a unique identifier for the app you're 'creating'. You may need to check out submodules (not needed for Provenance, but necessary for AuntiePlayer).