React Native TV
React Native TV is a framework for building native TV applications (for platforms like Apple TV, Android TV, and web-based smart TVs) using React Native. It extends React Native's capabilities to support TV-specific features such as focus management, remote control navigation, and TV-optimized UI components. This allows developers to create cross-platform TV apps with a single JavaScript codebase, leveraging React's declarative UI paradigm.
Developers should learn React Native TV when building applications for TV platforms, as it enables efficient development of native TV experiences across multiple devices without rewriting code for each platform. It is particularly useful for media streaming apps, gaming interfaces, or any interactive content on TVs, where focus navigation and remote control handling are critical. Using React Native TV reduces development time and maintenance costs compared to native TV SDKs like Android TV SDK or tvOS SDK.