App Integration

Integrating your app with the Senza platform involves several key steps, covering essential requirements and optional enhancements. Your app must be designed for a television experience, supporting full HD resolution, remote control navigation, and a ten-foot viewing environment.

Prerequities

1. See Integration Overview high level description of steps to integrate your app
2. App Requirements to understand if your apps are ready to be integrated
3. Follow the Quick Start guide
4. Familiarize yourself with the Developer Tools

App Integration Steps

1. Browser Integration: Test Chrome compatibility, remote control functionality, and remove platform-specific dependencies.
2. Device Integration: Connect the Senza client library, get cloud connector info, and update geolocation to use the device's IP.
3. Player Integration: Sync local and remote players using Shaka Player subclass or integrate directly with the remote player.
4. Lifecycle Integration: Implement foreground/background transitions.
   1. Switching Modes: shows how to switch between foreground and background modes, including doing this automatically with the Auto Background feature.
   2. Lifecycle Events: shows how your app can be notified when the lifecycle changes modes, the user has been inactive, or the session has disconnected.
   3. Preserving State: shows how to save the current state to session storage or local storage and restore it when the app restarts.
5. Platform Integration: Configure security policies, DRM, and device-based authentication.
   1. Streaming Requirements: Make sure your video is encoded in a supported format.
   2. Network Integration: If using geo restrictions, add Senza servers to your allow list.
   3. CDN Integration: Configure your CDN with the correct cipher suite.
   4. Analytics Integration: How to connect your app to an analytics platform.
   5. Protected Content: Configure DRM settings for encrypted video.
   6. Device Authentication: Use the device instead of passwords to authenticate users.
   7. Device Fingerprinting — Combat piracy by displaying a device-specific watermark on the screen.
   8. Emergency Alerts: Send messages to devices.

Resources

• Reference Implementation: A demo app showcasing these steps.
• Playing Video: A step-by-step guide to the reference implementation.
• Program Guide: Demonstrates how to integrate a full featured app with just a few lines of code.
  • Integration Changes: a pull request highlighting the changes made during the integration.
• Sample App: This video tutorial includes a demo of the reference implementation and a dive into the code.
• App Integration with ChatGPT: Demonstrates how you can use ChatGPT to perform all the required integration steps with just a single prompt.