Google正積極推動(dòng)開發(fā)社群對(duì)于Google TV的興趣，Google TV是Google針對(duì)連網(wǎng)電視推出的Android版軟件平臺(tái)。Google在日前于美國舊金山舉行的Google I/O大會(huì)上介紹了這款Google TV工具及其相關(guān)計(jì)劃，期望帶動(dòng)任何Android或Web開發(fā)者發(fā)表針對(duì)Google TV環(huán)境的應(yīng)用軟件。 Google將在今年夏天打造一款基于Android 3.1版的Google TV 2.0版；Android 3.1是專為平板計(jì)算機(jī)而升級(jí)的Android Honeycomb系統(tǒng)。為該平臺(tái)開發(fā)應(yīng)用程序的開發(fā)廠商將能最先進(jìn)入一個(gè)全新的Google TV領(lǐng)域──Google將在今夏推出可支持Android線上應(yīng)用商店(Android Market)的Google TV。 開發(fā)人員們可用現(xiàn)有的Honeycomb仿真器來測(cè)試目前的Google TV應(yīng)用程序。Google表示不久將會(huì)推出針對(duì)PC用的Google TV仿真器。該公司并發(fā)布了一個(gè)名為Fishtank的應(yīng)用程序，預(yù)計(jì)將自今夏起為特定的Android開發(fā)廠商提供數(shù)量有限的Google TV 2.0硬件仿真器。 在另一場(chǎng)會(huì)議中，Google表示目前正著手打造一個(gè)可讓W(xué)eb開發(fā)人員編寫有關(guān)電視應(yīng)用開放源碼的軟件數(shù)據(jù)庫。由于Google針對(duì)日益擴(kuò)展的連網(wǎng)電視提供了一些編寫相關(guān)應(yīng)用程序的參考準(zhǔn)則，開發(fā)人員們爭(zhēng)相擠進(jìn)幾個(gè)探討Android和Web開發(fā)的研討會(huì)場(chǎng)中。 “80%的美國家庭中都擁有個(gè)人計(jì)算機(jī)(PC)，90%的人都有手機(jī)，但99%的人至少擁有一臺(tái)電視，”Google I/O大會(huì)中Web議程主持人Chris Wilson指出。 全球有四分之三的家庭中都擁有一臺(tái)電視機(jī)，但目前只有兩百萬戶家庭連接到網(wǎng)絡(luò)，預(yù)計(jì)這一數(shù)字在2018年時(shí)可提高到4,300萬戶，Wilson說。在美國，電視機(jī)的數(shù)量比PC高三倍，他補(bǔ)充說。 這家互聯(lián)網(wǎng)巨頭去年在Google I/O大會(huì)上就已經(jīng)大張旗鼓地發(fā)布Google TV。然而，至今也只有Logitech與Sony等最初的合作伙伴推出了搭載Googel TV軟件的兩款機(jī)頂盒(STB)與一款電視產(chǎn)品。三星(Samsung)和Vizio的Google TV電視產(chǎn)品現(xiàn)正開發(fā)中，而其它合作伙伴正準(zhǔn)備推出相關(guān)產(chǎn)品中，Google TV開發(fā)人員表示。 一場(chǎng)探討Google TV的Android應(yīng)用程序相關(guān)研討會(huì)吸引了750位開發(fā)人員，場(chǎng)外還有等待進(jìn)場(chǎng)的人潮大排長龍。另一場(chǎng)有關(guān)Web開發(fā)的議程參與人數(shù)較少一些，但基本上與會(huì)者也擠滿了會(huì)場(chǎng)。Google希望藉由提高開發(fā)人員的興趣，從而激起電視制造商對(duì)此平臺(tái)的興趣與開發(fā)意愿。 Yahoo搶在Google TV之前先推出了一款連接電視平臺(tái)，現(xiàn)在也已經(jīng)獲得包括LG、三星、Sony和VIZIO等電視制造商的采用。 在一場(chǎng)有關(guān)Android的研討會(huì)中展示了Pandora與CNBC等開發(fā)廠商如何將智能手機(jī)應(yīng)用程序的來源碼重新應(yīng)用于Google TV中。會(huì)中還探討現(xiàn)有Android應(yīng)用程序與Google TV環(huán)境之間存在的明顯差異，包括更大的顯示器，以及缺乏觸摸、GPS以及TV軟件的通話功能支持等。其中，還有一位開發(fā)人員也指出，它還缺乏對(duì)于像USB網(wǎng)絡(luò)攝影機(jī)等即插即用的支持。 Google還發(fā)布了可在Android或Apple iPhone上開發(fā)虛擬電視遙控器的一些應(yīng)用程序。Google開發(fā)人員Christian Kurzke表示，該公司將在Apache 2授權(quán)下，推出Android應(yīng)用程序的開放來源碼，這一點(diǎn)還獲得了現(xiàn)場(chǎng)與會(huì)者的熱烈掌聲。 該公司并計(jì)劃建立一個(gè)可維護(hù)廣播電視頻道的數(shù)據(jù)庫計(jì)劃，讓開發(fā)人員可用于應(yīng)用程序開發(fā)的一項(xiàng)資源?！半S著電視相關(guān)產(chǎn)品的發(fā)表，未來我們還將提供其它更酷更有趣的東西，因此我們將在電視數(shù)據(jù)庫公開更多電視功能，” Kurzke說?！斑@真是一個(gè)撼動(dòng)人心的時(shí)刻，因?yàn)檫@是第一次我們?yōu)殡娨晳?yīng)用開啟一個(gè)新市場(chǎng)，”他補(bǔ)充說。

探討Google TV的Android應(yīng)用程序研討會(huì)吸引了750位開發(fā)人員，場(chǎng)外還有等待進(jìn)場(chǎng)的人潮大排長龍Atiesmc

本文授權(quán)編譯自EE Times，版權(quán)所有，謝絕轉(zhuǎn)載 參考英文原文： Google TV turns on Android, Web apps，by Rick Merritt

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{pagination} Google TV turns on Android, Web apps Rick Merritt 5/12/2011 1:45 PM EDT SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Google is turning to its developer community to stoke interest in Google TV, its Android-based software platform for connected televisions. The company described tools and plans at its annual Google I/O developer conference here, enabling any Android or Web developer to release apps for the TV environment. Google will create this summer a version 2.0 of Google TV based on the 3.1 version of Android, an upgrade of the Honeycomb version of Android for tablets. Developers who build apps for that platform will for the first time be able get access to a new Google TV area coming this summer to the Android Market, an online applications store. Developers can use an existing Honeycomb emulator to test Google TV apps today. Google said it will release a Google TV emulator for the PC soon. The company also announced a program called Fishtank to provide starting this summer a limited number of hardware emulators for Google TV 2.0 to select Android developers. In a separate session, Google described software libraries it is making available for Web developers to write code for TV apps. Developers packed into both Android and Web sessions where Google provided guidelines for writing apps for a growing category of connected TVs. "Eighty percent of US homes have a PC, 90 percent have a cellphone but 99 percent have at least one TV," said Chris Wilson, a Google presenter at the Web session. Worldwide three quarters of homes have a TV. Only two million are connected to the Web today, but that is expected to grow to as much as 43 million by 2018, Wilson said. In the US, TVs are viewed three times as much as PCs, he added. The Internet giant announced Google TV with much fanfare at Google I/O a year ago. So far only two set-top boxes and one TV from initial partners Logitech and Sony are shipping with the software. Samsung and Vizio have Google TV products in the works, and other partners are in the pipeline, said Google TV developers here. A session on Android apps for Google TV drew an estimated 750 developers with a long overflow line of others waiting to get in. A separate session for Web-based developers garnered a smaller but still substantial crowd. Google hopes increased developer interest will spark more interest in the platform from TV makers. Yahoo beat Google to market with a connected TV platform, now used by a number of TV makers including LG, Samsung, Sony and Vizio. The Android session showed how developers such as Pandora and CNBC reused code from smartphone apps for Google TV. It also reviewed the significant differences between existing Android apps and the Google TV environment including the larger display and lack of support for touch, GPS and telephony on the TV software. One developer also noted the lack of plug-and-play support for devices such as USB Web cameras. Google released applications for creating a virtual TV remote control on an Android or Apple iPhone. The company will release the source code for the Android application under an Apache 2 license, said Google developer Christian Kurzke, drawing enthusiastic applause from the crowd. The company also plans to create a program that maintains a database of broadcast TV channels that developers can use as a resource in their apps. "There's a lot of other cool and interesting things we can do with the TV feed an in future, so we will expose more TV functionality into a TV library," said Kurzke. "This is a really exciting time because we are enabling a market for apps on the TV for the first time," he added.