Giovanni Laquidara
Sr Developer Advocate
Amazon
Giovanni Laquidara is a Senior Dev Advocate at Amazon, where he works on supporting developers around the world using the Amazon Appstore across many devices. Previously, Giovanni worked as a software engineer building mobile apps, real-time defense systems, and VR/AR experiences. For fun, Giovanni enjoys low level programming, IoT hacking and Dancing Bachata around the world 🕺
You can connect with Giovanni on Twitter, Linkedin, and giolaq.dev.
Build Once, Watch Everywhere
Workshop
In this hands-on session, we'll show you how to build a React Native app for TVs. You'll learn how to share a single codebase across Vega OS, Android TV, Web, and Apple TV, then layer in platform-specific dependencies for Fire TV to optimize for the Amazon Appstore, which reaches hundreds of millions of devices.
We'll also share starter samples with the essentials built in: D-pad focus, ten-foot layouts, and our recommended libraries. Then we'll dig into our latest AI builder tools and the workflows we use to migrate existing apps. You'll leave with your app running on TVs and a clear path to keep going.
Note:
- Please download the Vega SDK before the workshop: https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/0.24/install-vega-sdk
- Prior TV app experience is not required