Yesterday Apple released the long-awaited AppleTV software update, including the new YouTube plugin. Along with this, the software update added a fair few things for developers to use in the BackRow framework and a new ‘AppleTV’ framework.
Sadly, they also removed just about everything from the image that wasn’t absolutely necessary for the functioning of the AppleTV software itself. So that means that there is no longer an AFP server, or AFP, NFS, etc. clients. We’ll be looking into a number of workarounds for that over the coming days, and we’ll post any useful information here.
Plugin developers were also in for a surprise when their appliance plugins stopped working on the new system. This was due to some (minor) changes in the way plugins were validated and loaded, particularly concerning the new parental controls within the latest AppleTV software. However, these were quickly worked around, and information posted on the AwkwardTV wiki detailing how to update appliance plugins for the new system.
So far ATVFiles and ATVLoader have been updated for the new system, and the BackRow Developers’ Kit has been updated to use it too, including new 1.1-compatible project templates and headers.
More information can be found here: