Smart TV apps · Samsung Tizen · LG webOS
One HTML5 app, packaged as a Samsung .wgt and an LG .ipk, carrying your live channel, your on-demand library and your branding. You submit both from your own seller accounts. Every paid live streaming, CDN and VOD plan includes it.
Four screens, all driven by the arrow keys, OK and Back. Every one of them reads its content from your channel's live feed.
Your cover image behind a Watch live button, then rails for Live, Latest videos and Continue watching.
When the channel is off air, or a stream fails, a "back soon" slate re-reads the feed and retries every 30 seconds, with a Try now button. A start or rebuffer that runs past 25 seconds becomes that slate, never an endless spinner.
A detail page with Play or Resume, seeking in 10-second steps that speed up while the key is held, resume points and favourites stored on the TV, and search across the library. The rails appear only when the channel has videos.
Your description and contact details, plus QR codes for the website, the social profiles and the phone number, since nobody types a URL with a remote.
Samsung and LG both test the app on real sets before listing it. These are the behaviours their reviewers check for, and the template implements each one.
The name, icons, splash, identifiers and colours are fixed in each build. Videos, links and contact details arrive through the feed, so they change without a resubmission.
Neither store is quick, and Samsung limits where a new seller can launch. Plan the release date around these.
| Store | Account | Where you can launch | Signing | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung Seller Office | Joins as a public seller | United States only; other countries require partner status, granted by Samsung | Your own author and distributor certificates; every update needs the original author certificate | Certification, typically a few weeks |
| LG Seller Lounge | Free, individual or company | The countries LG's store serves, with no partner step | None on your side; LG signs the .ipk | QA, typically several weeks, repeated for every update |
Every paid live streaming, CDN and VOD plan includes the Smart TV app. The free tiers do not.
Samsung sets on Tizen 4.0 or later and LG sets on webOS 4.x or later, which means 2018 models onward on both brands. The bundle is compiled down to the oldest browser engine in that range, so the same package runs across all of them.
For a new seller, yes: Seller Office admits newcomers as public sellers, who can launch in the US. Distribution elsewhere needs partner status, which you request from Samsung and Samsung decides. LG has no equivalent step.
They are Samsung's code-signing identity for your app, created in Tizen Studio's Certificate Manager against your Samsung account. The author certificate is the permanent one: Samsung rejects any update not signed with the certificate the app was first published with, so back up the .p12 and its password.
Samsung's certification typically runs a few weeks; LG's QA runs several weeks and can stretch to months. Both stores review every update, not only the first submission.
Neither. The app has no account system, no subscription gate and no advertising, and it ships no third-party analytics.
The live player shows a "back soon" slate with a countdown and retries every 30 seconds; viewers can force a retry at once. On-demand videos remain playable while the channel is down.
No. The generator targets Samsung Tizen and LG webOS only.
Ready to package? A qualifying channel finds its app under Apps in the control panel.
