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I Budgeted Android TV as a Second Client After We Called It the Same App

The Flutter game also had to run on Android TV. Shared logic was fine. Shared screens were not. I would not call TV a few layout tweaks again.

Written by Hiba Abbas

Sep 28, 20261 min readBuild

We said it was the same Flutter game on a television. It was not. I wrote the adaptation. This is the budgeting rule I kept.

Ten feet, a remote

Focus, selection, density. Phone tap targets are not TV. The emulator on a laptop lied.

Flutter web hot reload killed game state and we moved the web client to React. TV was playable in a living room. Same project, different wrong.

If someone says Flutter and also TV, TV is its own client. Shared rules, not shared screen.

Written by Hiba Abbas