Custom Android TV, smart TV and digital signage apps, built to your needs
Android TV app development is the design and engineering of applications for the big screen: televisions, commercial displays and set-top boxes driven by a remote control, or running unattended with no input at all. In practice a display estate is rarely one kind of screen. A reception has a television, the counter has an Android tablet, the showroom uses iPads on stands, the head office wants the same content in a browser, and the factory canteen runs a Windows PC behind a monitor. AtashiTech builds custom signage and TV applications for every one of those screens: an Android TV and Android tablet app, an iPad app, a web player that runs in any browser, and a Windows desktop application (.exe), all driven from one content console made for your organisation.
We do not sell you a fixed package and ask you to fit around it. We start from your screens, your content and the systems that should feed them, and build the player, the console and the integrations to match. If a ready product is enough, our digital signage software has a free plan you can start on today; when it is not, this service builds the custom version. Our other development services cover the kiosk and back-office pieces that usually come with a display estate.
One content console, a player for every screen you own
Each platform is built for how that device is actually used, then connected to the same console so your team publishes once.
Android TV and TV boxes
A full-screen player for Android TV, Google TV, commercial displays and inexpensive TV boxes. Starts on boot, needs no remote in the morning and recovers on its own after a power cut. Viewer-facing TV apps with remote-control navigation are built too.
Android tablets and kiosks
The same player on a tablet at a counter or a kiosk in a lobby, locked to the app, with touch interaction where you want it: a menu, a catalogue, a feedback screen or a check-in.
iPad
An iPad app for showrooms, receptions and stands where iPads are already the standard, running in guided-access or managed kiosk mode so visitors cannot leave the app.
Web player
A player that runs in any modern browser: a smart TV's own browser, a laptop at an event, a PC in a meeting room. Nothing to install, so it is the quickest way to put a new screen on the network.
Windows desktop app (.exe)
A native Windows application for signage PCs and screens you have already bought: full screen across one or more monitors, launches with Windows and keeps playing when the network drops.
Content console
A browser-based console in your branding where your team uploads media, builds playlists and schedules, assigns screens and sees which ones are online, whatever platform each screen runs.
When a ready-made signage product is not enough
Display projects rarely start with the display. They start with a queue, a menu or a message that is not reaching people, and the screen is the fix.
Token numbers are being shouted across a waiting room
Nobody can see which token is being served, so staff call out numbers. A queue board on a wall-mounted TV, fed live from the token system, shows the number now serving and the counter.
Signage is updated by someone walking round with a USB stick
A retail estate, a hotel, a campus: each screen shows whatever was loaded last time somebody visited. A managed player with a central scheduler replaces the site visit with a publish button.
Your screens are a mix of devices
Some TVs, some tablets, a few iPads and the PCs that came with an old signage system. Off-the-shelf products usually support one or two of them. We build for the mix you have instead of asking you to replace hardware.
The content should come from your own systems
Prices from the point of sale, production counts from the plant, room bookings from the calendar, KPIs from the ERP. A custom player reads those directly so nobody retypes them into slides.
You need your own brand on it
A partner or agency that wants to offer signage to its own customers, under its own name, with its own console and app listing.
Your catalogue or media needs a living-room presence
A broadcaster, educator or brand wants an app on the TV home screen, with remote-control navigation and playback. We build those too.
How we deliver a custom TV or signage application
Screens are unforgiving: a wrong margin or a missed focus state is visible from across the room. The stages below are designed to catch those on a real display, early.
Discovery
We list the screens, their locations and orientations, the devices behind them (Android TV, tablet, iPad, browser or Windows PC), the network each one sits on and the content to be shown. If a queue system, menu database or ERP feeds a screen, its interface is documented now, not during build.
Design
Layouts are drawn for the actual panel size and viewing distance, with safe margins, type that reads at a distance and, for interactive apps, every focus and touch state. Zone layouts are agreed with the people who will publish content.
Build
The players for each platform are built alongside the content console, and integrations are tested end to end on your target hardware rather than a simulator. Playback, scheduling and recovery after a forced reboot are exercised before anything goes near a site.
Rollout and support
We roll out to a pilot group of screens, confirm playback and reporting, then release to the estate. An annual maintenance contract then covers operating system updates, player fixes and changes to templates and integrations.
Features we build into a custom signage estate
Pick what your screens need. Each one is scoped with you, so you pay for what you use rather than a feature list you never touch.
Scheduling and playlists
Playlists by time of day and day of week, per-screen and per-group targeting, start and end dates for campaigns, and an emergency override that pushes one message to every screen at once.
Multi-zone layouts
The screen divided into independent regions, such as video, ticker, price list and logo, each with its own content and timing, arranged in a layout editor in the console.
Live data and queue boards
Zones that pull from a queue system, a menu database, weather or your own systems and refresh in place. Token boards connect to our queue kiosks so the served number updates instantly.
Touch and interaction
On tablets, iPads and touch displays: menus, product catalogues, wayfinding, feedback and check-in screens that return to the playlist when nobody is using them.
Approval and roles
Content drafted by a branch, approved by head office before it goes live, with roles per site so each team edits only its own screens.
Health reporting and recovery
Each player reports when it last checked in and what it is playing. A screen that goes silent raises an alert, and proof-of-play logs show which content ran where.
Offline playback
Every player stores its schedule and media, so a dropped connection does not blank the screen. Changes arrive when the network returns.
White label
Your name, logo and colours on the console and the apps, and app store listings under your own account if you resell signage to your customers.
Built for the hardware you already have
We target commercial displays with Android built in, external Android TV boxes and streaming sticks, Android tablets, iPads, smart TVs with a browser and Windows PCs, and we test on the model your estate will use, because video support and start-up behaviour vary from one device to the next. If you have not bought screens yet, we tell you which inexpensive devices work well before you order a hundred of them.
Fleet enrolment goes through the device management tool you already run, or through our own kiosk and display management platform. Screens that sit beside self-service kiosks report into the same dashboard as the kiosks, so operations staff watch one fleet. Live data can come from an API, a database, a spreadsheet or a queue system.
What a custom display estate is made of
Where custom TV and signage apps earn their place
A screen on the wall is often the second half of a journey that started at a kiosk. These are the pairings we build most often.
Hospital and clinic waiting areas
Token boards showing the number being served per department, driven by the queue management kiosk and the patient registration kiosk.
Bank branches and service centres
Counter displays with now-serving numbers and promotional zones between calls, alongside bill payment kiosks in the same hall.
Restaurants and food courts
Menu boards that change with the time of day and an order-ready board fed by the food ordering kiosk, with an iPad or tablet menu at the table.
Corporate lobbies and offices
Welcome screens that greet expected guests, connected to the visitor management kiosk, and meeting-room screens on Windows PCs or in a browser.
Retail and showrooms
Campaign playlists targeted by store, region and time, iPad catalogues on the shop floor and proof-of-play reports for the marketing team.
Factories and warehouses
Safety notices, shift information and live production counts on shop-floor screens, read straight from the systems that hold them.
Engagement, ownership and AMC
Custom TV and signage applications are normally delivered as a fixed-scope engagement. Discovery produces a screen inventory, a list of platforms and content types, and a list of integrations, and the quote is written against that document. You choose the platforms: a single Android TV app, or Android, iPad, web and Windows together. We quote each project individually and publish no prices or durations.
You receive the apps, the console, the deployment guide and the content templates, and our standard position is that the source code delivered for your custom version belongs to you. An estate that only one vendor can open has sold you a subscription, not software.
Once the estate is live it is covered by an annual maintenance contract: operating system updates on each platform, player and console fixes, template changes and support through a defined channel. The AMC support page explains the cover. Companion work usually comes from our kiosk application team for the token-issuing side, our Android and iOS team for a phone app that mirrors the queue, our UI/UX designers for the on-screen layouts, and our cloud and integration team for hosting the console and connecting live data.
Signage and TV apps made for your screens
Tell us how many screens you have, which devices they run (Android TV, tablet, iPad, browser or Windows PC), what they should show and what should feed them. We will ask about networks and content, then send a scoped proposal. See the wider kiosk solutions a display estate pairs with, or start free with our digital signage software.
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