Developing a cross-platform TV app with React Native

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  • React-Native-Spatial-Tv

    • We’re also going to use the react-tv-space-navigation library in our project. You can find the source code for our demo project on GitHub. Let’s start by introducing this library.

  • react-tv-space-navigation

    A React Native module to handle spatial navigation for a TV application in a 100% cross-platform way

    • The react-tv-space-navigation docs describe the library’s purpose and functionality very well:

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  • Norigin-Spatial-Navigation

    React Hooks based Spatial Navigation (Key & Remote Control Navigation) / Web Browsers, Smart TVs and Connected TVs

    • Besides react-tv-space-navigation, there are other libraries worth considering or mentioning for creating TV apps that require spatial navigation. A couple of examples include Norigin Spatial Navigation and ReNative. Here's a quick comparison:

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