Hello @gamer

Currently the builder supports iOS and macOS. Support for other platforms is incomplete and has not been tested yet (I have no AppleTV device to test the builds).

Do you want to help me support tvOS ? If so, send me the Xcode project you're trying to build. I think I'll be able to add what's necessary for it to build, but I won't be able to test it, so I make no guarantees.

Well received. Let's see how hard this new miracle is going to be.

I am currently working on it. The capabilities of the asset compiler (cartool) that compiles an .xcassets directory into an Assets.car file need to be extended. And there’ll be something to do about the splash screen storyboard too. And that should be it.

An update on this:

After much effort, I'm hitting a technical dead-end. TVOS requires that some particular sets of images be packed in the Assets.car file in a particular format. This Assets.car file is used by Apple's CoreUI framework to quickly load various images and resources. One of them, specific to TVOS, is a banner image with blurred parallax that displays in the TVOS app browser.

Unfortunately in spite of my efforts I could not reverse engineer the "blurred" algorithm/compression method that is used by Apple to pack these images in the Assets.car file. I could not find any reference nor any documentation about this format anywhere on the Internet. I am not able at the moment to offer a reimplementation of this algorithm through reverse engineering (I ran out of time for that). Trying to workaround the problem by storing the same blurred image with a different compression method (e.g. LZFSE) only ended in making CoreUI crash (which hints that Apple's CoreUI makes way too many unverified assumptions when reading an Assets.car file)

This is the only, but blocking, challenge to solve to produce an app that would run on TVOS. As a consequence there is no possibility at the moment to use this toolchain to build TVOS apps - except if one preserves and reuses the Assets.car file previously generated by a Xcode build.

Sorry for not being able to achieve this one.

I would have to tidy things up and publish an update but TBH I'm not quite motivated for publishing a "half-working" solution. There doesn't seem to be much interest in building tvOS apps.

That said, if you're in dire need of such a workaround, I may get that motivation in exchange of a reasonable tip. Let me know (by mail) how much you can allocate, and I'll tell you if that's okay. Thank you for your understanding.