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Technical Requirements
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Please make sure your game meets these technical guidelines and passes the requirements provided by the Checklist before submitting it to AirConsole. The AirConsole best practices guide provides information on how to make your game a success. For Unity based games, the Unity games on Android TV guide provides valuable guidance.
- Games need to be able to run in modern browsers (ones with WebGL support), Unity WebGL exports are fine.
- Games need to be able to run on AndroidTVs with API level 34 (Android 14) and OpenGL ES2.
- To ensure AndroidTV requirements are met, we recommend you to test on the Mi TV Stick or the MiBox S.
- Initial Game loads should not be more than 50MB until the first user interactions happen (e.g. Menu).
- Additional data loaded at a later point (e.g. a level) should not be greater than 50MB per loading break.
- Total required storage size on AndroidTVs should not exceed 500MB at a time (You may load data on demand from our servers directly into memory).
- Your AndroidTV game must be able to be deployed to Google PlayStore (AAB) and APK / APK+OBB based platforms like Amazon FireTV.
- We will provide you with the projects for the different stores to upload your build to as part of the Android TV release cycle.
- Games should not require more than 512MB of RAM Memory (E.g. Unity WebGL memory size, UnityEngine.Profiling.ProfilerRecorder, Android Process Size).
- Games need to be able to run
- at 25 FPS on AndroidTVs (Mi TV stick as reference) - 1GB of RAM, ARM Cortex-A53 ARMv7 Quad-Core at 1.2 GHz. ARM Mali-450MP3 GPU.
- You can use an old Android Smartphone with similar specs for a first feasibility tests, but should quickly move to Android TV development.
- at 30 FPS on modern chromium based webbrowsers on a computer with 4GB of RAM, 2GHz quad-core processor with an integrated graphics card.
- Game initialization after loading the data should be within a few seconds and always visualize that work is being done.
- Depending on external servers or CDNs are not permitted if you manage them yourselves. Only big and managed Saas services (e.g. Photon) are permitted.
- Persistent Data of users (e.g. Save Files) need to use the AirConsole Persistent Storage API.
If you have questions about these requirements or how to make sure your game meets them, reach out to the AirConsole team!
Updated 26 Nov 2024
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