Introduction to tvOS 11
New features available to developers using Xamarin for tvOS 11
Access new tvOS 11 features in Xamarin.tvOS apps:
- Right-to-left language support
- Focus support for SceneKit and SpriteKit
- Safe area layout guides
- Plain button style, which can more easily be styled
- Layered images with support for interactive focus
- Custom animations coordinated with focus interactions
- Custom sounds coordinated with focus interactions
- Machine learning with CoreML
- Image and video feature detection
- High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) support
- High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) support
- Promoting in-app purchases on the App Store
- Light and dark images for Top Shelf extensions
- AirPlay 2
- Metal 2
For a complete list of changes Apple introduced in tvOS 11, see the What's New in tvOS document.