Morning Guys in this short blog we will look at How to Install a Web Browser on an Apple Tv 4 this blog also contains a great video to follow to achieve this.
Good Morning Guys hope you are all well, this morning will bring you a few blogs regarding the Apple Tv 4th Generation all this info has been given to us by our advertising partner Entertainment Box. Who are they some may ask? Well they are the leading Distributor in the UK of Android devices and Gadgets. If you have purchased from them in the past you will know they pride themselves on supplying great original products and the best after care available. If interested click banner below to have a look at their online store. They also have a store in London full address on the website, why not pop in and say hello they have always made us very welcome.
Right on to the blog in Hand. We are going to cover how to sideload a browser onto your Apple Tv 4th generation
HOW TO INSTALL A WEB BROWSER ON THE APPLE TV 4
List of things you’ll need to run a Web browser on your Apple TV 4th Gen.
- A Mac running OS X 10.10.5 or later.
- A free Apple ID developer account.
- Xcode 7.2 from the Mac App Store, which needs more than 4GB of disk space all by itself.
- A USB C to USB A cable, for connecting your Apple TV to your Mac via its service port.
- If you want to buy an Apple TV 4 that has this and other apps pre installed then click here
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL THE WEB BROWSER ONTO YOUR APPLE TV 4
Step 1. Copy this URL https://github.com/jvanakker/tvOSBrowser.git
Step 2: Now on open Xcode 7 and click on Source Control → Check Out. (on the top bar) paste the URL into the bar at the bottom of
Check Out.
Step 3: When Xcode 7 opens click the play button to start to build the App. The build will fail, and you will encounter an error that states: ‘UIWebView’ is unavailable: not available on tvOS
Step 4: Open the Applications folder
Step 5: Right click on Xcode.app and select Show Package Contents
Step 6: We now need to edit a file but in order to edit the Availability.h file all files you click on to get to the Availability.h needs to be read and write permitted. so right click on all the folders below and go to GET INFO → Then click the padlock in the bottom right of the popup, you can now make that folder Read and Wright. You need to do this to all the folders below.
Step 7: Open Developer → Platforms → AppleTVOS.platform → Developer → SDKs → AppleTVOS.sdk → usr → include
Step 8: Double click Availability.h to open in Xcode
Step 9: Find the following lines:
#define __TVOS_UNAVAILABLE __OS_AVAILABILITY(tvos,unavailable) #define __TVOS_PROHIBITED __OS_AVAILABILITY(tvos,unavailable)
Replace those lines with:
#define __TVOS_UNAVAILABLE_NOTQUITE __OS_AVAILABILITY(tvos,unavailable)
#define __TVOS_PROHIBITED_NOTQUITE __OS_AVAILABILITY(tvos,unavailable)
Step 10: Save your changes to Availability.h
Step 8: now go back to Xcode 7 and Try to rebuild the tvOSBrowser using the Play button in Xcode, and it should build successfully
Step 9: Find the tvOSBrowser app icon on your Apple TV and start browsing the web on your TV
It’s really a simple thing to do, and takes about 5 minutes, if that, from beginning to end. If you want a browser on your Apple TV, this is one way to do so.
Right Guys until next time Peace.
Sparky
