Wow..can you run GFN and show how the experience is?
Thand you so much for taking the time to share this!
What touchscreen lcd is that? I assume hdmi+usb for input?
Woow. I didn't know Taskbar can be installed on Android TV. Gonna try this to my Mi Box later haha
Edit: turns out the Shield in the video is a custom OS. Still gonna try though
I just tested this on my Nvidia shield and it works :) I was really exited about taskbar as I had my own idea of how I wanted to use it. What I wanted to achieve was to have my live TV (mycanal) app to run on one side of the screen and be able to use my internet browser on the other side and continue doing my work and browsing while watching the TV. Unfortunately as soon as I click on the browser the TV app stops playing :( (to have it resume playing I have to click on it (select it) again)
I also had few crashes. After a crash only serious problem is that my mouse will stop working while everything else work normally! The mouse cursor is still present and moves, but clicking no longer works and I have to reboot shield to have the mouse work again.
I always wanted to try doing this (using the Shield TV as a "desktop" replacement). Unfortunately, my Shield TV bricked out of warranty before I could try.
Good job pulling it off!
Could someone explain why this is impressive to someone that doesn't know much about Shield TV? Is it not supposed to be able to handle things like this? And if so, what was done to make it handle it?
This is awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Note that you can indeed enable freeform mode with Taskbar on the standard Android TV firmware (at least, on the Nvidia Shield). You'll need to sideload the Taskbar app (latest release is here on my GitHub page), then run a few adb shell commands to enable freeform mode and to grant the necessary permissions on Android TV. Taskbar will walk you through the necessary steps if it detects that it's running on an Android TV device.