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Customizing the UI for Fire TV (and Android TV)

Why would you want to build apps for Fire TV? Well, Roku may be the current leader in the market for streaming TV boxes, but Amazon Fire TV's share of the market isn't too far behind at 2nd place based on data collected from comScore as

Obfuscating Shared Preferences in Fire TV Apps

What's the best way to keep secure data in our local Android or Fire TV shared preferences? Well, don't do it. If someone's curious enough, it's not too hard to dig into the Android file system to look at a particular app&

Abstracting Analytics: RxJava Observers in TV Apps

Sometimes analytics are nice to have. Sometimes they're critical, like in our Fire TV apps we just published on Amazon. Content providers and distributors are always negotiating who can show what content (and for how much). However, I imagine it's much harder to turn down the

Beyond Right Click Deployments to the Microsoft Cloud [video]

Make your development strategy for the cloud a success. In this presentation from NOVA CodeCamp [http://novacodecamp.org/] last fall, I discuss architecting your ASP.NET Core solution for deployment to the Microsoft Cloud, and using Azure Resource Manager PowerShell scripting as a tool to automate the creation of new

24 Resharper Tips Every .Net Developer Should Know

ReSharper can massively boost productivity and improve code quality, while teaching you to be a better developer. In this presentation from NOVA CodeCamp last fall, I distill years spent mastering the tool into a discreet set of 24 tips to help you immediately get more done in less time. (Read

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