CAPH

This topic describes CAPH, a Web application UI framework designed for easy and quick Smart TV Web application development.

CAPH is a UI framework for TV Web applications, which allows you to easily and quickly develop high-performance Web applications.

Figure 1. Sample CAPH video player application
Figure 1. Sample CAPH video player application

For example, TED built their Samsung Smart TV application using the CAPH 3 framework already in 2016. The application leverages CAPH's high performance scrollable thumbnail lists, stable key navigation, and customizable component architecture to deliver a great user experience consistent with the TED brand.

CAPH supports the following features:

  • Key navigation

    Allows you to handle user input from the remote control directional keys.

  • Scrollable list and grid components

    Take advantage of the TV's graphics processor to offer great performance, comparable to that of native implementations.

  • UI components

    Button, Radio Button, Toggle Button, Checkbox, Input, Dialog, Context Menu, Dropdown Menu

  • Touch features (since CAPH 3.1)

    Pan, Tap, Double Tap

    High Performance Customizable Easy and Quick

    CAPH is developed especially for creating high-performance Web applications for Samsung Smart TV.
    All UI components in CAPH are customizable and can be decorated using inner HTML.
    CAPH3 is implemented with AngularJS or jQuery, allowing you to develop applications easily using familiar frameworks.

Reference Videos

The following video shows how to implement focusable key navigation using CAPH.