With official SDKs and tools provided by LG, you can develop web-based apps. While many content-based apps can be built this way, it has many limitations.
In addition to official tools, we have our unofficial toolchains and documentations, you can develop high-performance native apps, and utilize the full potential of webOS.
Showcases
Kodi
Kodi has been ported to webOS by the community. It utilizes native media APIs to provide hardware-accelerated video playback.
Moonlight
Moonlight is one of the first native homebrew apps built for webOS. With
low-level media APIs like libndl-media,
it provides low-latency game streaming from a PC. It also uses SDL2 for rendering and input handling.
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