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DayView 1.0 Brings a Personal Dashboard to Your Apple TV
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Great App if you're the type that likes to leave your TV on 24/7. I think this would be better suited as an iPad app since you can view this info at your office and home similar to an EchoShow or Google SmartHub. I really loved the Apple TV and it's many possibilities however, like anything not iPhone or iPad related, it gets neglected. The Apple TV died a long time ago and the upcoming Apple "exclusive" shows aren't going to save it.
You only need to turn on your Apple TV and the TV turns on as well. But this would be a whole lot more useful if you could turn it on and off using HomeKit.
Hey Gorms, I'm the developer, thanks for the suggestion! I've never actually developed an app for Mac before, and macOS apps don't use the same UI framework as iOS or tvOS apps do so it would take a bit of reworking to make it Mac-compatible (moreso than making it iOS-compatible), but I'll keep that in mind for the future if demand is high enough!
Yes. My thoughts exactly. Will be in tvOS 13 and presented as a “magical idea”, “no other device in the market has”.
Impressive, but lacking adherence to user interface design guidelines. The spacing around certain elements is off, and this reminds me of the ugly interfaces from competing platforms. I hope the developer recognizes these oversights.
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"Hey Siri, open DayView"
Quick access to key information.
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"Hey Siri, open DayView"
Quick access to key information.
Cool. I'll be sure to fire up my 100" projector screen next time I need some "key information" instead of just looking at my iPhone or the iPad we have sitting in our kitchen for exactly this kind of thing.
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Downloaded, deleted. I’m just never gonna click on this app to fire it up. Would I like to see weather and traffic info when I turned on my ATV? Sure, why not. But is it redundant info that is easily accessible via myriad other ways? Yes.
I downloaded this last evening, and while simplistic - not inherently a bad thing! - it's got at least one 'feature' that makes it not usable for me at this time. Not everyone has a Google account, but (even if they don't use it) every single account *does* have a common set of Apple / iCloud account features... including calendar.
That said, I see this as a great first step for a new developer, and in fact I'm thrilled that it's an TV app! We have phones, tablets, laptops, desktops.. and voice for interactive work, but sometimes what we need is a quick-glance overview at our day. I have an abundance of monitors and would love to have one in my office where I can quickly keep track of key metrics for my day. The TV is a potentially great place to put it!
To the developer:
I'm sure you had a great reason for choosing Google. It just doesn't work for me. No slam intended.
If I understand it correctly you're still a student and thus early in your career. Many of us will offer 'advice' for features. Some people will love your work. Some people will hate it. Some will tell you you're brilliant. Some will call you an idiot. LISTEN, because we're the one's most likely to try your app, but don't take any single feedback too much to heart. Don't ever let this become personal. As a developer you'll spend the majority of your career on projects that lots of people will hate. Put your heart and soul into it, and always be driven to do better, but there's a key lesson I hope you learn early in life: It's about the journey, and always improving, not necessarily the current end result.
Here are some 'features' that could trigger me into PAYING for your product!
That said, this app should be whatever YOU envision, based on your available time, energy and inclination. If YOU want to build an amazing dashboard, go for it! I'll follow along and be supportive. If you want to use this as a stepping stone to something else, do that! I know some developers who were playing around with proof-of-concept ideas that started getting great feedback and feature requests... then spent all of their energy building an app that ultimately took an inordinate amount of time without any return.
With that in mind, here are some general thoughts for you to ponder:
The answers to these - combined with user feedback and your own brilliant ideas - should drive your decision making. For example, if you're making a dashboard for the work-from-home employee, having a calendar, to-do list, and other status information is critical. OTOH, if this is for a family, the same things are important, but from a different perspective. A family might need to see multiple columns for each person. A family might want to track where each person is on a map! (Apple... get it together and let us show "Find My Friend" on the TV!)
Regardless of my feedback - and any others - you should get kudos for this effort. Many of us have been talking about a simple dashboard for a long time... and you managed to pull it off. Great work!
I look forward to seeing whatever else you come up with!
That said, I see this as a great first step for a new developer, and in fact I'm thrilled that it's an TV app! We have phones, tablets, laptops, desktops.. and voice for interactive work, but sometimes what we need is a quick-glance overview at our day. I have an abundance of monitors and would love to have one in my office where I can quickly keep track of key metrics for my day. The TV is a potentially great place to put it!
To the developer:
I'm sure you had a great reason for choosing Google. It just doesn't work for me. No slam intended.
If I understand it correctly you're still a student and thus early in your career. Many of us will offer 'advice' for features. Some people will love your work. Some people will hate it. Some will tell you you're brilliant. Some will call you an idiot. LISTEN, because we're the one's most likely to try your app, but don't take any single feedback too much to heart. Don't ever let this become personal. As a developer you'll spend the majority of your career on projects that lots of people will hate. Put your heart and soul into it, and always be driven to do better, but there's a key lesson I hope you learn early in life: It's about the journey, and always improving, not necessarily the current end result.
Here are some 'features' that could trigger me into PAYING for your product!
- Full Apple account integration (particularly for calendaring)
- HomeKit integration (for showing status information, such as "Doors Locked")
- Integration with one or more of the popular to-do apps (giving me a "whats on my list" view)
- This might have be nothing more than Apple's reminders... but I can dream!
That said, this app should be whatever YOU envision, based on your available time, energy and inclination. If YOU want to build an amazing dashboard, go for it! I'll follow along and be supportive. If you want to use this as a stepping stone to something else, do that! I know some developers who were playing around with proof-of-concept ideas that started getting great feedback and feature requests... then spent all of their energy building an app that ultimately took an inordinate amount of time without any return.
With that in mind, here are some general thoughts for you to ponder:
- Who is your consumer? A family? A business? A busy work-from-home employee?
- What is the purpose of this dashboard app?
- What types of information can it show (in practical terms)?
- What types of information should it show?
- Where does it get the data?
- Is the information updated real-time?
- Should it integrate with other apps?
The answers to these - combined with user feedback and your own brilliant ideas - should drive your decision making. For example, if you're making a dashboard for the work-from-home employee, having a calendar, to-do list, and other status information is critical. OTOH, if this is for a family, the same things are important, but from a different perspective. A family might need to see multiple columns for each person. A family might want to track where each person is on a map! (Apple... get it together and let us show "Find My Friend" on the TV!)
Regardless of my feedback - and any others - you should get kudos for this effort. Many of us have been talking about a simple dashboard for a long time... and you managed to pull it off. Great work!
I look forward to seeing whatever else you come up with!
As explained, Apple isn't providing APIs to access the iCloud calendar (nor does tvOS itself have a notion of local calendars).
The developer has considered building a companion app for iOS that would sync, but has postponed it for now.
(That said, the developer could probably also implement a CalDAV client themselves?)
That's all well and good, but this is mostly on Apple.
I downloaded the app this morning. I logged into my Google account to display my Calendar. There is a meeting on my DayView app that is NOT in my Google Calendar? Why is that??? Also, I would hope that when I clicked on the News widget that it would expand, but no. This app offers me nothing. Sorry.
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And this is 2018, almost 2019 and you replied to a post from 2015. Hmmmmm....
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And this is 2018, almost 2019 and you replied to a post from 2015. Hmmmmm....
Aug 20, 2015 is when JRobinsonJr joined MacRumors. The timestamp of any given post is above your avatar.
[doublepost=1541440312][/doublepost]Why can't I use ical for my calendar on this app on TV ? Why does it only give you google calendar ? this is a apple product ? Hmmm ? Why ?
Student and former Apple intern Punya Chatterjee has developed a slick-looking free tvOS app called DayView that acts as a personal dashboard for Apple TV.
Similar to Today View on iPhone, the DayView interface displays widgets that hook into useful online platforms and personal services, providing at-a-glance information in a unified dashboard.
You can customize the dashboard wallpaper and select which widgets go where in the dashboard panels, plus they automatically refresh, so you could leave the app up on your TV screen during your morning routine, for example.
Currently the app includes widgets for weather, commute time, Google calendar, stocks, Twitter trends, and news headlines, but Chatterjee plans to build several more as well as improve the existing widgets, with better dashboard customization options also in the offing.
Possibilities for future updates include custom wallpapers, additional news sources for the news widget, HomeKit integration, extra calendar view options, extendable widgets, and more.
Apple Calendar support would be an obvious win, but Apple's EventKit framework is currently only available for macOS and iOS, although the developer is looking at alternative syncing solutions in the meantime.
DayView 1.0 is a free download on Apple TV from the tvOS App Store. [Direct Link]
Article Link: DayView 1.0 Brings a Personal Dashboard to Your Apple TV
Because tvOS doesn't give calendar access (nor does it generally have much of a notion of a calendar).
Doesn't seem like something I would use but it is nicely done and would likely be useful for others.
Because the Apple TV has a very very limited interface and if you own ANY other Apple product, it already has your iCloud Calendar events on it -- and is about 100x better suited to interacting with said events.